Michael Reid writes the Bello column on Latin America for The Economist and is the newspaper’s senior editor and writer-at-large for the region. He has worked for The Economist since 1990 and was Americas Editor between 1999 and 2013. His books include
Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul (2007) and
Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global Power (April 2014), both published by Yale University Press and in Portuguese by Editora Elsevier.