Thomas Graham
@thomas-graham.bsky.social
Journalist in Mexico, and often Bolivia
✍️ The Guardian, The Economist, the FT and The Observer
https://www.thomasajgraham.com/
✍️ The Guardian, The Economist, the FT and The Observer
https://www.thomasajgraham.com/
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Rodrigo Paz, Bolivia’s president-elect, will face a dire economic crisis and a fragmented political system, @thomas-graham.bsky.social writes.
Bolivia Voted for Change. Can Its New Centrist President Deliver?
Rodrigo Paz, Bolivia’s president-elect, will face a dire economic crisis and a fragmented political system.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Rodrigo Paz, Bolivia’s president-elect, will face a dire economic crisis and a fragmented political system, @thomas-graham.bsky.social writes.
Before they even take office, Bolivia's future VP is already warning Rodrigo Paz not to stray from the people who put them - or rather him - in power.
“Many people supported the people's ticket because they believed in Captain Lara, and I will not let those people down."
larazon.bo/nacional/202...
“Many people supported the people's ticket because they believed in Captain Lara, and I will not let those people down."
larazon.bo/nacional/202...
larazon.bo
October 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Before they even take office, Bolivia's future VP is already warning Rodrigo Paz not to stray from the people who put them - or rather him - in power.
“Many people supported the people's ticket because they believed in Captain Lara, and I will not let those people down."
larazon.bo/nacional/202...
“Many people supported the people's ticket because they believed in Captain Lara, and I will not let those people down."
larazon.bo/nacional/202...
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Centrist Rodrigo Paz wins Bolivia’s presidential election-The election ends a long period in power for the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), which governed for all but one of the past 20 years, first under the charismatic…
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Centrist Rodrigo Paz wins Bolivia’s presidential election
Son of former leader inherits deep economic crisis
www.ft.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Centrist Rodrigo Paz wins Bolivia’s presidential election-The election ends a long period in power for the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), which governed for all but one of the past 20 years, first under the charismatic…
www.ft.com/content/8de3... @thomas-graham.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/8de3... @thomas-graham.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
China is building a "network of clean energy industries on the Tibetan Plateau, the world’s highest ... to harness the region’s bright sunshine, cold temperatures and sky-touching altitude to provide low-cost, renewable energy."
Bolivia should too.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/b...
Bolivia should too.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/b...
Why China Built 162 Square Miles of Solar Panels on the World’s Highest Plateau
www.nytimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
China is building a "network of clean energy industries on the Tibetan Plateau, the world’s highest ... to harness the region’s bright sunshine, cold temperatures and sky-touching altitude to provide low-cost, renewable energy."
Bolivia should too.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/b...
Bolivia should too.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/b...
The Rupert Cornwell Prize for young foreign correspondents is open for applications.
A few years back it allowed me to spend a summer reporting from Ceuta and Melilla, the Spanish North African enclaves.
Feel free to get in touch with any questions.
www.the-independent.com/news/media/r...
A few years back it allowed me to spend a summer reporting from Ceuta and Melilla, the Spanish North African enclaves.
Feel free to get in touch with any questions.
www.the-independent.com/news/media/r...
Rupert Cornwell Award: £5,000 bursary for budding foreign correspondents
The award honours the memory of Rupert Cornwell, one of The Independent’s most distinguished journalists
www.the-independent.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The Rupert Cornwell Prize for young foreign correspondents is open for applications.
A few years back it allowed me to spend a summer reporting from Ceuta and Melilla, the Spanish North African enclaves.
Feel free to get in touch with any questions.
www.the-independent.com/news/media/r...
A few years back it allowed me to spend a summer reporting from Ceuta and Melilla, the Spanish North African enclaves.
Feel free to get in touch with any questions.
www.the-independent.com/news/media/r...
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Bolivia divided in election run-up as ruling party implodes—Bolivia’s next president will have to take immediate measures to address the economic crisis. The government’s foreign exchange reserves all but ran out in March 2023 www.ft.com/content/90ea... @thomas-graham.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
Bolivia divided in election run-up as ruling party implodes
Leftwing government’s infighting and deepening economic crisis boost opposition candidates
www.ft.com
August 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Bolivia divided in election run-up as ruling party implodes—Bolivia’s next president will have to take immediate measures to address the economic crisis. The government’s foreign exchange reserves all but ran out in March 2023 www.ft.com/content/90ea... @thomas-graham.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
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In all likelihood, Bolivia's long-ruling MAS party will cease to exist as a political force after Sunday's presidential election.
It's a pretty disorienting development, but not unexpected after the disarray of the past few years.
Great backgrounder here by @thomas-graham.bsky.social.
It's a pretty disorienting development, but not unexpected after the disarray of the past few years.
Great backgrounder here by @thomas-graham.bsky.social.
MAS’ Implosion Has Blown Bolivia’s Presidential Election Wide Open
The Arce-Morales feud has effectively split Bolivia’s long-dominant MAS party, opening the door for the opposition in August’s presidential election.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
In all likelihood, Bolivia's long-ruling MAS party will cease to exist as a political force after Sunday's presidential election.
It's a pretty disorienting development, but not unexpected after the disarray of the past few years.
Great backgrounder here by @thomas-graham.bsky.social.
It's a pretty disorienting development, but not unexpected after the disarray of the past few years.
Great backgrounder here by @thomas-graham.bsky.social.
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The Arce-Morales feud has effectively split Bolivia’s long-dominant MAS party, opening the door for the opposition in August’s presidential election, @thomas-graham.bsky.social writes.
MAS’ Implosion Has Blown Bolivia’s Presidential Election Wide Open
The Arce-Morales feud has effectively split Bolivia’s long-dominant MAS party, opening the door for the opposition in August’s presidential election.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com
July 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The Arce-Morales feud has effectively split Bolivia’s long-dominant MAS party, opening the door for the opposition in August’s presidential election, @thomas-graham.bsky.social writes.
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Out tomorrow: the first episodes of our six-part podcast series about Dom and Bruno and the Amazon. Listen wherever you get your podcasts www.theguardian.com/technology/a...
Coming soon: Missing in the Amazon – a new Guardian investigative series
In one of the most remote corners of the Amazon jungle, a journalist and an indigenous defender disappear without a trace. Missing in the Amazon – our new six-part investigative podcast series uncover...
www.theguardian.com
June 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Out tomorrow: the first episodes of our six-part podcast series about Dom and Bruno and the Amazon. Listen wherever you get your podcasts www.theguardian.com/technology/a...
Ruth López, a senior figure at Cristosal, the most important human rights organisation in El Salvador, was arrested by the government last night.
#ElSalvador | URGENT 📣
Ruth is likely the victim of short-term enforced disappearance.
As of now, neither her family nor her legal team has been able to confirm her whereabouts or the detention center where she is being held.
Ruth is likely the victim of short-term enforced disappearance.
As of now, neither her family nor her legal team has been able to confirm her whereabouts or the detention center where she is being held.
May 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Ruth López, a senior figure at Cristosal, the most important human rights organisation in El Salvador, was arrested by the government last night.
More big news from Bolivia. Luis Arce, the current president who's been polling awfully, has withdrawn his candidacy for August's election
That leaves the MAS candidacy open. Note that Andrónico Rodríguez is still a member of the MAS and is yet to say who he will run for
larazon.bo/nacional/202...
That leaves the MAS candidacy open. Note that Andrónico Rodríguez is still a member of the MAS and is yet to say who he will run for
larazon.bo/nacional/202...
Arce declina su candidatura a las elecciones generales
El presidente Luis Arce anunció este martes que baja su candidatura presidencial de cara a las elecciones generales del 17 de agosto y aboga por la unidad. «Hoy doy a conocer al pueblo boliviano con a...
larazon.bo
May 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
More big news from Bolivia. Luis Arce, the current president who's been polling awfully, has withdrawn his candidacy for August's election
That leaves the MAS candidacy open. Note that Andrónico Rodríguez is still a member of the MAS and is yet to say who he will run for
larazon.bo/nacional/202...
That leaves the MAS candidacy open. Note that Andrónico Rodríguez is still a member of the MAS and is yet to say who he will run for
larazon.bo/nacional/202...
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🚨 British + UK-based correspondents under 30 🚨
You've got until May 26th to apply for the Richard Beeston Bursary, which offers £6,000 to report a story for
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You've got until May 26th to apply for the Richard Beeston Bursary, which offers £6,000 to report a story for
@thetimes.com anywhere in the world.
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Richard Beeston Bursary - Win the opportunity of a fellowship with The Times Newspaper
This award of £6,000 is for an aspiring British or UK-based foreign correspondent to spend six weeks abroad, researching and reporting on a foreign news story, in association with The Times newspaper....
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May 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
🚨 British + UK-based correspondents under 30 🚨
You've got until May 26th to apply for the Richard Beeston Bursary, which offers £6,000 to report a story for
@thetimes.com anywhere in the world.
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You've got until May 26th to apply for the Richard Beeston Bursary, which offers £6,000 to report a story for
@thetimes.com anywhere in the world.
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Big news in Bolivia, where Andrónico Rodríguez, president of the senate and VP of the six tropics coca growers federation, says he will be a candidate in August's election.
That means three will be going for the MAS vote: Arce, Morales and now Rodríguez.
larazon.bo/nacional/202...
That means three will be going for the MAS vote: Arce, Morales and now Rodríguez.
larazon.bo/nacional/202...
Andrónico mueve el tablero electoral, acepta ser candidato
"Desde acá, queridos hermanos y hermanas, quiero expresar en respuesta a este pedido: acepto", dijo el senador Andrónico Rodríguez en Oruro.
larazon.bo
May 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Big news in Bolivia, where Andrónico Rodríguez, president of the senate and VP of the six tropics coca growers federation, says he will be a candidate in August's election.
That means three will be going for the MAS vote: Arce, Morales and now Rodríguez.
larazon.bo/nacional/202...
That means three will be going for the MAS vote: Arce, Morales and now Rodríguez.
larazon.bo/nacional/202...
🚨 British + UK-based correspondents under 30 🚨
You've got until May 26th to apply for the Richard Beeston Bursary, which offers £6,000 to report a story for
@thetimes.com anywhere in the world.
richardbeestonbursary.com
You've got until May 26th to apply for the Richard Beeston Bursary, which offers £6,000 to report a story for
@thetimes.com anywhere in the world.
richardbeestonbursary.com
Richard Beeston Bursary - Win the opportunity of a fellowship with The Times Newspaper
This award of £6,000 is for an aspiring British or UK-based foreign correspondent to spend six weeks abroad, researching and reporting on a foreign news story, in association with The Times newspaper....
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May 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
🚨 British + UK-based correspondents under 30 🚨
You've got until May 26th to apply for the Richard Beeston Bursary, which offers £6,000 to report a story for
@thetimes.com anywhere in the world.
richardbeestonbursary.com
You've got until May 26th to apply for the Richard Beeston Bursary, which offers £6,000 to report a story for
@thetimes.com anywhere in the world.
richardbeestonbursary.com
Evo Morales's deal with Frente Para la Victoria to run in Bolivia's forthcoming elections seems to have broken down.
Morales already left the MAS, having lost control of it. There are not many siglas left that he could make a deal to run for.
la-razon.com/nacional/202...
Morales already left the MAS, having lost control of it. There are not many siglas left that he could make a deal to run for.
la-razon.com/nacional/202...
FPV anuncia que ‘ya no va’ el acuerdo con Evo Morales para las elecciones generales - La Razón
FPV anuncia que ‘ya no va’ el acuerdo con Evo Morales para las elecciones generales
la-razon.com
April 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Evo Morales's deal with Frente Para la Victoria to run in Bolivia's forthcoming elections seems to have broken down.
Morales already left the MAS, having lost control of it. There are not many siglas left that he could make a deal to run for.
la-razon.com/nacional/202...
Morales already left the MAS, having lost control of it. There are not many siglas left that he could make a deal to run for.
la-razon.com/nacional/202...
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This week the organisers of Fyre festival, the notorious disaster that became a Netflix doc, announced that Fyre 2 would take place on Isla Mujeres, Mexico.
This was news to the local government...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
This was news to the local government...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Alarms raised over legitimacy of Fyre festival 2: ‘An event that does not exist’
After the announcement of a follow-up festival in Mexico, tourism and local officials have denied any knowledge of its existence
www.theguardian.com
February 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
This week the organisers of Fyre festival, the notorious disaster that became a Netflix doc, announced that Fyre 2 would take place on Isla Mujeres, Mexico.
This was news to the local government...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
This was news to the local government...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
This week the organisers of Fyre festival, the notorious disaster that became a Netflix doc, announced that Fyre 2 would take place on Isla Mujeres, Mexico.
This was news to the local government...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
This was news to the local government...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Alarms raised over legitimacy of Fyre festival 2: ‘An event that does not exist’
After the announcement of a follow-up festival in Mexico, tourism and local officials have denied any knowledge of its existence
www.theguardian.com
February 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
This week the organisers of Fyre festival, the notorious disaster that became a Netflix doc, announced that Fyre 2 would take place on Isla Mujeres, Mexico.
This was news to the local government...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
This was news to the local government...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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Dispatch from Chiapas and thoughts on not fetishizing the Mexican state. www.thetroubledregion.com/stopping-tra...
Stopping traffic, and the state
Dear friends,
Early this morning (Saturday 22 February), thousands from the Zapatista communities of the Lacandon jungle took to the highways that link the towns of Palenque, Comitán, San Cristóbal...
www.thetroubledregion.com
February 23, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Dispatch from Chiapas and thoughts on not fetishizing the Mexican state. www.thetroubledregion.com/stopping-tra...
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For @theborderchronicle.bsky.social, I wrote the first installment in a series about the controversial energy development plan called Plan Sonora: www.theborderchronicle.com/p/what-is-pl...
What Is Plan Sonora?
How the border state became the center of Mexico’s ambitious renewable-energy plan.
www.theborderchronicle.com
February 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
For @theborderchronicle.bsky.social, I wrote the first installment in a series about the controversial energy development plan called Plan Sonora: www.theborderchronicle.com/p/what-is-pl...
The remains of Mexican journalist Jesús Alberto Camacho Rodríguez were just identified after lying in a morgue for three years.
It's estimated that more than 70,000 other unidentified bodies currently sit in Mexico's morgues.
elpais.com/mexico/2025-...
It's estimated that more than 70,000 other unidentified bodies currently sit in Mexico's morgues.
elpais.com/mexico/2025-...
El cadáver del periodista desaparecido Jesús Alberto Camacho llevaba tres años en una morgue sin identificar
Las autoridades dicen que el reportero no tenía una denuncia por desaparición y se estima que hay más de 70.000 cadáveres sin identificar en las morgues del país
elpais.com
February 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The remains of Mexican journalist Jesús Alberto Camacho Rodríguez were just identified after lying in a morgue for three years.
It's estimated that more than 70,000 other unidentified bodies currently sit in Mexico's morgues.
elpais.com/mexico/2025-...
It's estimated that more than 70,000 other unidentified bodies currently sit in Mexico's morgues.
elpais.com/mexico/2025-...
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"A British journalist has been missing in Brazil for 11 days, a foreign correspondents’ association in the country said on Tuesday, urging authorities to step up their search efforts," writes @tiagorogero.com www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
British journalist missing in Brazil for 11 days
Foreign correspondents’ association urges authorities to step up search for Charlotte Alice Peet, 32
www.theguardian.com
February 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"A British journalist has been missing in Brazil for 11 days, a foreign correspondents’ association in the country said on Tuesday, urging authorities to step up their search efforts," writes @tiagorogero.com www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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In the middle of Bolivia’s worst fire season, I went with @umbamoxos.bsky.social to the scorched plains on edge of the Amazon, where archaeologists are drilling into the deep history of the mysterious forest islands.
For @thetimes.com
www.thetimes.com/world/latin-...
For @thetimes.com
www.thetimes.com/world/latin-...
In search of the ancient Amazonians who left only eerie forest islands
In Llanos de Moxos, an expanse of floodplains fringing the Bolivian rainforest, strange clumps of trees offer clues about a lost civilisation
www.thetimes.com
February 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
In the middle of Bolivia’s worst fire season, I went with @umbamoxos.bsky.social to the scorched plains on edge of the Amazon, where archaeologists are drilling into the deep history of the mysterious forest islands.
For @thetimes.com
www.thetimes.com/world/latin-...
For @thetimes.com
www.thetimes.com/world/latin-...
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🧪 Report of @thomas-graham.bsky.social about our 2024 field work just published in @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/world/latin-... @demodrivers.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
In search of the ancient Amazonians who left only eerie forest islands
In Llanos de Moxos, an expanse of floodplains fringing the Bolivian rainforest, strange clumps of trees offer clues about a lost civilisation
www.thetimes.com
February 10, 2025 at 9:50 AM
🧪 Report of @thomas-graham.bsky.social about our 2024 field work just published in @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/world/latin-... @demodrivers.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
In the middle of Bolivia’s worst fire season, I went with @umbamoxos.bsky.social to the scorched plains on edge of the Amazon, where archaeologists are drilling into the deep history of the mysterious forest islands.
For @thetimes.com
www.thetimes.com/world/latin-...
For @thetimes.com
www.thetimes.com/world/latin-...
In search of the ancient Amazonians who left only eerie forest islands
In Llanos de Moxos, an expanse of floodplains fringing the Bolivian rainforest, strange clumps of trees offer clues about a lost civilisation
www.thetimes.com
February 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
In the middle of Bolivia’s worst fire season, I went with @umbamoxos.bsky.social to the scorched plains on edge of the Amazon, where archaeologists are drilling into the deep history of the mysterious forest islands.
For @thetimes.com
www.thetimes.com/world/latin-...
For @thetimes.com
www.thetimes.com/world/latin-...
Reposted by Thomas Graham
By me: Exonerated environmental defenders to face murder retrial in El Salvador
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Exonerated environmental defenders to face murder retrial in El Salvador
Critics decry ‘politically motivated’ decision to revisit civil war-era charges against leaders of anti-mining campaign
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
By me: Exonerated environmental defenders to face murder retrial in El Salvador
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...