Luiz Romero

Recent stories

• How Brazil's fear of losing the Amazon guides Bolsonaro's policies towards the forest, 2021
• Blurry satellite images of Palestine and Israel make rebuilding harder, 2021
• Why did thousands of Brazilian politicians change their race? 2021

Pandemic in Italy

• Once resistant, Italy begins to take coronavirus more seriously, 2020
  
• As Italy orders drastic measures to stop coronavirus, some get ingenious, 2020
  
• Stores in Milan are finding creative ways to enforce Italy’s strict coronavirus rules, 2020
  
• Italian delivery workers want people to stop ordering stuff they don’t need, 2020
  
• Under lockdown, Italy debates if physical newspapers are essential, 2020
  
• Italy convinced people to stay home. Now it needs to help them cope, 2020
  
• More than 100,000 people have been caught defying Italy’s lockdown, 2020
  
• Italy’s bookstores are figuring out how to reopen a business after a lockdown, 2020
  

Migration

• Hundreds of Europeans are driving to Hungary to offer rides to stranded migrants, 2015
  
• The US will welcome just 30,000 refugees next year, the lowest in decades, 2018
  
• A boat captain is facing 20 years in prison for rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean, 2019
  
• The UN’s latest report on refugees has one tiny bit of good news, 2019
  

Terrorism

• New data shows terror attacks are becoming less frequent and much less deadly, 2018
  
• Terrorist attacks in the Middle East and North Africa fell by almost 40% last year, 2018
  
• Terrorism is surging in the US, fueled by right-wing ideologies, 2018
  

United States

• Amazon’s best-selling books about “Russian Politics” are mostly about Donald Trump, 2018
  
• Republicans lost their last urban district last night, 2018
  
• The disturbing timeline of events surrounding the first Trump-Putin meeting, 2019
  
• Russia’s latest propaganda campaign was laughably easy to spot, 2019
  
• Roger Stone’s indictment hints at the origin of the #HillaryHealth conspiracy theories, 2019
  
• The US-Iran crisis is playing out in real time among officials on Twitter, 2020
  

Europe

• Welcome to Liberland: Turns out, launching your own country is harder than it looks, 2015
  
• A review of Boris Johnson’s grueling first days as foreign secretary, 2016
  
• The EU’s most powerful leaders will change this year, 2019
  
• Even the Russians don’t seem interested in the European elections, 2019
  
• Italy is evicting Steve Bannon from the monastery he planned to turn into a far-right academy, 2019
  

Latin America

• The Americas’ oldest armed conflict just ended—what now? 2016
  
• Mexico’s new president is creating a special border patrol force, 2018
  
• Since April, more than 300 people have died protesting in Nicaragua, 2018
  
• A drug cartel in Colombia is offering a bounty of $7,000 for a cocaine-sniffing dog, 2018
  

Brazil

• Polls show Brazilians are leaning toward a Trump of their own, 2018
  
• Brazil’s presidential frontrunner is questioning its voting machines—especially if he loses, 2018
  
• Brazil’s elections are getting violent, 2018
  
• Markets are welcoming Brazil’s new president. Can he be trusted? 2018
  
• Brazil’s biggest gunmaker crashed after the country elected a radical pro-gun president, 2018
  

Venezuela

• Donald Trump actually considered invading Venezuela last year, 2018
  
• With 1,000,000% inflation, Venezuela is slashing five zeroes from its currency, 2018
  
• Trump wasted no time supporting Venezuela’s self-proclaimed president, 2019
  
• Maduro and Guaidó are gearing up for a showdown at the Venezuelan border, 2019