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Michael Reid writes the Bello column on Latin America and is the newspaper’s writer-at-large for the region. He is based in Lima. He joined The Economist in 1990 as Mexico and Central America Correspondent and in 1994 changed to cover consumer industries. In 1996 he moved to São Paulo to be the Bureau Chief and in 1999 returned to London as Americas Editor, a post he held until December 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. Mr Reid has been interviewed frequently for television, radio and print outlets in Britain, the United States and Latin America, including CNN, BBC World TV, NPR, Globo (Brazil) and El País (Spain).