Leila Miller
@leilamillersays
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Journalist in Lat Am w/ work in NYT, Foreign Policy, former @latimes correspondent in Mexico City 🇲🇽 Reach out: [email protected]
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Joined October 2015
From Mexico to Argentina, a faulty forensic test is sending women to prison for killing their newborns. The test, which determines whether a baby was born dead or alive, is simple. But it can easily go wrong. My latest -->
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RT @Yaakov_Flitch: Breaking the cycle of abuse! Guatemala's rescue of 140 children from Lev Tahor is a major victory. Thank you @leilamille…
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My story for the @TheEconomist on how Guatemala has seized about 140 children from Lev Tahor, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish fringe group accused of child abuse. Hasidic rabbis recently visited Guatemala to try to help:
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Milei has called abortion “aggravated murder” and feminism a “ridiculous” fight. How are his austerity measures affecting women? My latest, with @nataliealcoba
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RT @OjosdeAnita: Les comparto una pieza que hice con @nataliealcoba y @leilamillersays a la pluma, sobre el desmantelamiento del plan ENIA…
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RT @ForeignPolicy: As Milei tackles Argentina’s long-winded economic crisis, he is seeking to encourage private investment in the country’s…
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RT @benjamingedan: “Despite the success of its national team, the champions of this summer’s Copa América tournament and the 2022 World Cup…
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Argentina’s biggest soccer clubs are more than 100 years old and have birthed legends like Maradona and Messi. Some, like Boca or River, have hundreds of thousands of members. Will President Milei disrupt soccer as Argentines know it?
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My first piece for the Guardian: Trump assassination attempt – the song: viral Mexican corrido recounts shooting
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My latest: Eight years after the Panama Papers leak, former employees of the Mossack Fonseca law firm have been acquitted of money laundering charges.
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RT @JulesEvans11: Senate bill in Mexico would legalize psilocybin for anyone with doctor's prescription and legalize state-regulated psyche…
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RT @alelagunes: Los hongos psilocibes, conocidos como niños santos, sagrados para nuestras comunidades indĂgenas, están en el centro del de…
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RT @alerajal: It’s always amazes me when I have the chance to understand and learn more about sacred plants and drug policies in Mexico. Co…
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RT @mayaaverbuch: How a Life magazine column, MarĂa Sabina, and a whole troupe of tourists popularized mushroom use in Mexico. And what com…
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As U.S. cities open up access to magic mushrooms, the debate around legalization looks very different in Mexico. Indigenous people here have long used the fungi to connect with their spiritual world. In one town, locals tenderly call them "child saints."
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Covering the Panama Papers trial for the NYT --> RamĂłn Fonseca, Cofounder of Law Firm at Center of Panama Papers, Dies
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A look at Panama's presidential election today, in which the most prominent player is sitting in Nicaragua's embassy with a money laundering conviction. Reporting w/ @MTrinyZea
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In Nazas, Durango, red bows adorn hundreds of pecan trees to protect them from the eclipse. “We decided not to risk it,” said one grove owner.
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My preview on the upcoming presidential elections in Panama, a country dealing with low water levels in its canal and fallout from protests.
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