Amy Booth

International journalist focusing on human rights & global development, especially in LatAm. Ex-managing editor, Buenos Aires Herald. Co-founder, @pirate_wire.

[jordan @amuyaskthwa]

"Delcy is navigating American imperialism while defending the revolution" guys are like the Japanese soldiers fighting on in the pacific 30 years after the nukes

[Media Party🎉 @mediapartyorg]

Preserving the soul of a historic newsroom while embracing a digital-first global strategy is the new frontier for legacy brands. 🇦🇷🗞️

In this #MediaParty 2025 Lightning Talk, @AmyBwrites discusses the digital rebirth of @BuenosHerald and how a 140-year legacy was adapted to engage a global audience.

Watch the full session here: 🔗 https://t.co/aYluWXcvmF
#Journalism #DigitalMedia #Innovation

[Amy Booth @AmyBwrites]

@ChGaravaglia hola, me encantó la nota sobre la costumbre de aplaudir cuando el avión aterriza, pero lo de la prohibición de Arajet va con hashtag #AprilFools, es decir, es un chiste para 1 de abril, no una prohibición real!

[Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo @abuelasdifusion]

🗨️ "Nunca lo había pensado antes, pero, mirando para atrás, creo que en algún nivel siempre lo supe. Sueños que uno tiene, todo empieza a tener sentido". #50AñosDelGolpe #Abuelas #Identidad

👉https://t.co/qMwvaczdsU

[Amy Booth @AmyBwrites]

This was the last story I edited at the Buenos Aires Herald. An absolute privilege. Memoria, verdad y justicia ✊

[Juan Décima @yaesmucho]

Wrote about Macarena Gelman’s story. Thanks to @AmyBwrites and @UruguayFran for invaluable edits and fact-checking

[Jared Sullivan @JRSLLVN]

FWIW I edit a Canadian business/culture/tech newsletter with 5 million subscribers, and we pay $2+/word for 600- to 3000-word pieces. We've published David Sedaris, Karen Russell, Nico Walker, etc., but I also work with a lot of upcoming writers. hmu

[Amy Booth @AmyBwrites]

Ahh yes my favourite vegetable, the knobbergine

[Amy Booth @AmyBwrites]

A disinformation analyst just told the BBC that we're getting a "slopification of war information" and I'll be damned if that isn't the most 2026 sentence I've heard

[Amy Booth @AmyBwrites]

My friend who's moving is temporarily bringing her worm composter over and I have genuinely not been this excited since childhood friends offered to bring over the marble run

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

During the Renaissance, people in Venice would vote by dropping little balls into an urn.

The Italian word for “little ball” is ‘ballotta.’

Now any kind of secret voting, by ball, piece of paper, or voting machine, is called a ‘ballot.’

[Amy Booth @AmyBwrites]

@Kafermann Ahh, ok. That's interesting on both counts! What do you think Bayer gets wrong? And, I didn't know that about weasels and stoats in NZ - are they as strict about importing diseases there as in Australia? My parents nearly got fined for travelling there in hiking boots!

[Amy Booth @AmyBwrites]

Camino a Laguna Esmeralda, Ushuaia. ¿Alguien sabe si esto es efectivamente un dique de castores? Es increíble (aunque no le hace bien al paisaje!)

[Ben Phillips @benphillips76]

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

[Amy Booth @AmyBwrites]

@soydelsala 😂😂😂

[Amy Booth @AmyBwrites]

@Kafermann A highly biased account of the construction of a beaver dam?

[Amy Booth @AmyBwrites]

@samkellyproof @mjofiguerero Yes, the Washington post had a really interesting piece a few weeks back about how "problem beavers" in the States are being relocated to help prevent wildfire with their damming abilities, but as @mjofiguerero said, in Tierra del Fuego they're a real problem!

[Amy Booth @AmyBwrites]

@CSDevAr Si, es ahí! Cuesta creer que una cosa así sea natural, es tremendo. Y por si volves, no es para nada una caminata difícil, son solo 200m de desnivel y lo hicimos en unas 4 horas con un montón de paradas para fotos, galletitas, subirnos a rocas interesantes etc

[Valeria Hot Wheels @Avaltenea]

“El Congreso no lo va a dejar.”

El Congreso: Qué Therian sos según tu signo.

[Amy Booth @AmyBwrites]

I'm stuck in Ushuaia because of today's general strike and it's a great day to remember the history of the labour movement in Patagonia. This is from In Patagonia by Chatwin, but he's summarising Bayer's La Patagonia Rebelde

[Amy Booth @AmyBwrites]

@ASPertierra @PippengerHarlo But the most important thing: I hope your loved ones are ok, it must be excruciating to bear witness to

[Amy Booth @AmyBwrites]

@ASPertierra @PippengerHarlo My favourite is when they say things like "Goldsmiths University Anti-imperialist Society" in their profiles