Tom Phillips

Tom Phillips is the Guardian’s Latin America correspondent. During almost 20 years as a foreign correspondent, he has reported from nearly 30 countries including China, El Salvador, Haiti, Indonesia, Mexico, Nicaragua, the Philippines, South Korea and Venezuela. Tom started his career in Brazil, where he has reported extensively from the Amazon, and was the Guardian’s bureau chief in Beijing before returning to Latin America in 2018. Since then, he has reported on a right-wing coup attempt in Brasília, an Indigenous uprising in the Peruvian Andes, the drug conflict in Ecuador and Mexico, Venezuela’s economic collapse, and the election of the libertarian radical Javier Milei in Argentina. He lives in Rio de Janeiro.