Iñigo Alexander López

@Reuters in Mexico. Previously freelance in Colombia🗣️🇬🇧🇪🇸🇧🇷 Words for The Guardian, New York Times, BBC, Al Jazeera, The Times & more.

[Iñigo Alexander López @Inigo_Alexander]

Locals in the Colombian fishing town of Guapi have seen their livelihoods impacted by a ban on the fishing & sale of shark - known locally as tollo - a cultural & culinary staple across the Pacific.

Tho praised by environmentalists, it has forced locals into ilegality

My latest

[The Guardian @guardian]

‘They became illegal overnight’: Colombia’s shark fishing ban turns locals into criminals https://t.co/9ngB2RiDZd

[Iñigo Alexander López @Inigo_Alexander]

A few weeks ago, Colombian president Gustavo Petro claimed a coup against him was under way after authorities said they’d open an investigation into his presidential campaign financing.

It’s not as simple as he paints it.

My latest

https://t.co/Ki5EANRS3M

[Santiago Torrado @Santorrado]

🇨🇴 🌳 Ser lideresa ambiental en el país más peligroso para los ambientalistas https://t.co/yJ6UlU4TCj vía @elpaisamericaco @elpais_america @AmericaFutura

[Jared Olson @jolson321]

Publications that go more than 6 months without paying their writers should be forced to pay interest on payments. It's insulting what so many writers go through to be paid—the employer indefinitely saying "payments take a while, you gotta deal with it," is textbook labor abuse.

[Iñigo Alexander López @Inigo_Alexander]

Over the last decade, the beach of Palomino on Colombia’s Caribbean coast has lost up to 50 metres of coastline due to coastal erosion & rising sea levels.

The livelihood of the laid back beach town and the local community that depends on tourism is at risk.

My latest:

[Global Development @GdnDevelopment]

‘The sea came in and took it all away’: the Colombian beach resort facing a ‘public calamity’ https://t.co/S8msFPS0p9

[Juan Diego Quesada @jdquesada]

Hay un dato estremecedor en el informe de la ONU sobre Venezuela que ha alarmado a los propios relatores: han sido detenidas 28 niñas y 130 niños acusados de terrorismo.

https://t.co/Dwb9rY4fyu

[jonathanwatts @jonathanwatts]

Dom Phillips’ book: “How to Save the Amazon” has a cover and will be published in May, 2025.

The murders of Dom and Bruno Pereira are not the end of their story. The voices they wanted to amplify will not be silenced. Our friend’s work goes on.

[Iñigo Alexander López @Inigo_Alexander]

A new @Global_Witness report found major companies are linked to the deforestation of 75,000+ hectares of Paraguay's Gran Chaco - the 2nd largest forest in South America.

At the current rate of deforestation, the Chaco could be gone by 2080.

My latest:
https://t.co/czcw9V39vB

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

More than 41,800 people have been killed in a year of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

The health ministry in Gaza has confirmed the identities of more than 34,000 of them. Here are their names.

[Iñigo Alexander López @Inigo_Alexander]

I will be heading down to Cali to cover COP16 later this month.

Drop me a message if you have any story ideas, tips, interesting research etc that you want to talk about, or simply want to grab a coffee while in town!

[Global Witness @Global_Witness]

🚨BREAKING

UK banking giant @Barclays earned $1.7 billion in five years financing Brazilian meatpacker JBS, a company that, during the same period, contributed to the illegal invasion of Apyterewa #Indigenous territory, our latest investigation reveals

https://t.co/VBg7tZ4kRY

[MADRID DECADENTE @MadridDecadente]

📌 Rastro de Madrid

⬅️ 2022 // 2024 ➡️

Entre estas dos fotos no hay ni dos años de diferencia y aunque parezca difícil de creer, es el MISMO LUGAR

Donde antes había una de las tradicionales almonedas del Rastro, ahora hay un Airbnb

[Iñigo Alexander López @Inigo_Alexander]

@sjgrattan @AP Enhorabuena!! And welcome back to Bog!

[Madrid No Frills @madridnofrills]

This is just the first step, but Congress today voted overwhelmingly in favour (310 'yes' vs 33 'no') of the regularisation of half a million undocumented migrants in Spain: the #ILPRegularizacion. An incredible win for the @RegularizacionY people's movement ✊🏾

[Phil Kitromilides @PhilKitro]

Rayo Majadahonda's goalkeeper Cheikh Sarr has been banned for two matches for physically confronting a Sestao River fan who was racially abusing him in Spain's third tier. Rayo refused to finish the game and have been handed 3-0 forfeit defeat. This is all wrong. All of it.

[Jared Olson @jolson321]

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández has been declared guilty on all three counts of his drugs and weapons trial in NYC.

[Marina Sardiña @MarinaSardina_]

🧶Some personal news:

Después de 4 años y medio en @France24_es tomé la decisión de renunciar al canal. Estoy agradecida por los aprendizajes, las oportunidades, los retos superados y, también, las frustraciones de querer y no poder hacer más. Me quedo con lo primero. ¡Gracias!

[Iñigo Alexander López @Inigo_Alexander]

Ecuador has spiralled into a security crisis that has left the country facing unprecedented levels of violence.

The cocaine industry's global boom, corrupt institutions, Covid & weak state infrastructure has led Ecuador to the brink.

My latest 👇
https://t.co/izi2ZjGncO

[Globe Eye News @GlobeEyeNews]

Spain has sent another 10 million euros to UNRWA in Gaza today, and it has tripled its funding to Palestine in recent months to around 50 million euros.

[Iñigo Alexander López @Inigo_Alexander]

The Colombian president's son has been charged with money laundering & illicit enrichment, after allegedly receiving thousands of $$ from criminal circles to fund his dad's campaign.

I spoke to BBC's World Business Report, min 18:35, with the latest.
https://t.co/q8FbcRJeL4

[Marina Sardiña @MarinaSardina_]

🇵🇸Tres meses de invasión militar de Israel en la Franja de Gaza:

• Casi 29.000 muertos, entre ellos unos 10.000 niños.

• Cada día, 10 menores pierden extremidades.

• Más de 7.000 desparecidos.

• 110 periodistas asesinados.

🎙️mi nota completa: https://t.co/UBVDNSputp