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Tom Phillips

Tom Phillips is the Guardian's Latin America correspondent 

July 2024

  • People line up at polling place in Caracas

    Could Venezuela’s softly-spoken opposition newcomer end 25 years of Chavismo?

  • Milei in a suit and tie.

    Argentina’s president butts heads with South American leftist leaders

June 2024

  • Bolivia's sacked army head Gen Juan José Zúñiga Macías is arrested after an apparent coup attempt against President Luis Arce.

    Former heads of Bolivia’s army and navy arrested over failed coup

  • Bolivian authorities arrest Gen Juan José Zúñiga (Photo: 
Anadolu/Getty Images)

    Bolivia’s president sees off attempted coup after urging citizens to take to streets

  • Police from Kenya stand on the tarmac of the Toussaint Louverture International Airport after landing in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, June 25, 2024. The first U.N.-backed contingent of foreign police arrived nearly two years after the Caribbean country requested help to quell a surge in gang violence. (AP Photo/Marckinson Pierre)

    Haitians wary as Kenyan police arrive on latest US-backed mission

  • Rangers from Brazil’s environmental protection agency, Ibama, launch a major offensive against illegal mining gangs operating near the Javari valley Indigenous territory, where Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were killed. Photo by João Laet / The Guardian

    ‘Tomorrow’s our D-day’: on the frontline of the fight to save the Amazon

  • Bloodlines
    ‘The cocaine superhighway’: how death and destruction mark drug’s path from South America to Europe

  • ‘We want to forge ahead’: grief and defiance as Dom Phillips’ widow journeys to site of his death

May 2024

  • A smiling young couple embrace each other.

    Haiti gang kills US politician’s missionary daughter and her husband

  • an anarcho-capitalist with mutton chops who happens to lead a country dances on stage

    ‘I’m the king and I will destroy you!’: Argentinian president stages frenetic stadium appearance

  • People grieve the death of a teenager who was killed by a stray bullet

    Kenyan special forces police to arrive in Haiti to help combat gang violence

  • side by side images of two men

    Spain permanently recalls ambassador from Argentina amid feud with Milei

  • ‘The gangs are in charge’: Haiti’s outgunned police fight a desperate rear defence

  • Brazil’s far right pilloried for Madonna outrage after figures spotted at concert

  • Brazil flooding death toll rises to 90 as more than 155,000 people displaced

  • Rights and freedom
    ‘It’s so frustrating’: two years on and still no justice for Bruno and Dom murders

  • World Press Freedom Day 2024
    ‘I decided to not let anybody silence my voice’: the journalists in exile but still at risk

April 2024

  • Posters showing councilwoman Marielle Franco, whose murder has inspired a generation of journalists to probe Rio’s underworld and its ties to police and politicians.

    ‘My hands went cold’: Rio’s reporters risk death to reveal criminal ties between police, politicians and mafia

    The killing of councillor Marielle Franco has inspired a generation of journalists to probe the city’s dangerous underworld
  • Armed security personnel in full kit in road on patrol

    New Haiti government sworn in during secret ceremony

    ‘Transitional council’ takes oath of office after prime minister formally resigns as gang violence continues to rock capital
  • Supporters of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro hold up a sign saying ‘Thank you Elon Musk'

    Bolsonaro supporters hit streets of Rio and hail new hero Elon Musk

    Owner of X has used social media platform to bash judge in charge of investigations into former president
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