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Simeon Tegel

@SimeonTegel

Simeon Tegel is a British journalist based in Lima, Peru, and covering Latin America. Visit his website at simeontegel.com.

<p>Herlin Odicio, 36, president of the Native Federation of Cacataibo Communities, in Aguaytía, Peru</p>
Long Reads

A nightmare choice for Peru’s Indigenous leaders

The Atacama desert is the driest place on Earth. Its soil, which lacks basic nutrients and is devoid of organic matter, will be used to grow the trial tubers
Science

Life on Mars? Peruvian team tests if potatoes will grow on Red Planet

Cooks prepare a potato dish at a Lima food fair
Americas

Why Peru's gastronomy is a bigger draw for tourists than the Incas

A traditional dance in Peru
Americas

Campaign launched to protect dying Peruvian language from extinction

The 24 rescued lions are being microchipped at the Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary in Limpopo province
Africa

Lions saved from Peru circus start new life in South Africa

Police officers stand guard over a 7-tonne haul of cocaine seized at the Jorge Chávez International Airport in Lima in 2014
Americas

Peru gets funding from Britain for fight against cocaine traffickers

Members of the Mashco-Piro tribe in the Peruvian rainforest
Americas

Peru sends investigators into jungle to find 'uncontacted' tribe

Face off: Activists wearing masks of world leaders protest at the Lima talks
News

UN climate talks: Rich square up to poor over emissions cuts

Cecilio Tercero López was abseiling in the Peruvian Andes
Americas

Injured Spanish caver finally saved after 12-day rescue effort in

Latin America has some of the fastest rising obesity rates in the world
Americas

Ecuador to tax fast food in effort to halt soaring obesity rate

Americas

Lev Tahor community: From Canada to Guatemala to... the ultra-orthodox

Melissa Reid, right, and Michaella McCollum arrive for their court hearing in Lima
Americas

Six years in a Peruvian jail for British women found with £1.5m of

Illegal gold mining has led to acres of rainforest in Peru’s Madre de Dios region being destroyed
News

Destruction of Peru’s rainforest by illegal gold mining is twice as

News

Destruction of Peru’s rainforest by illegal gold mining is twice as

Illegal gold mining has led to acres of rainforest in Peru’s Madre de Dios region being destroyed
Saiumi Yasumi, 4, carries a heap of coca leaves
Americas

Coca: The plant that feeds Peru

Mexico president Enrique Peña Nieto
Americas

Mexico lines up tax reform with leftist lean: President Enrique Peña

Mario Sepulveda, one of the group who became known as ‘Los 33’, attacked Chile’s ‘crappy’ justice system and said the mine’s owners were ‘wandering around free and happy’
Americas

'I want to dig a deep hole and bury myself again': Chilean miners

The unidentified officer wrote up 66 of the city's 83 cannabis citations
Americas

The world’s biggest drug dealer: Uruguay’s move towards legalising

The unidentified officer wrote up 66 of the city's 83 cannabis citations
Americas

The world’s biggest drug dealer: Uruguay’s move towards legalising

Carlos Slim has built a telecoms and retail empire that spans the US and most of Latin America
Americas

The Mexican telecoms vote which slims the fortune of world’s richest

Nicolas Maduro has a 10 point lead in the polls
Americas

Henrique Capriles accuses Venezuelan state media of bias in favouring

Alberto Fujimori, right, with his daughter, Keiko
Americas

Peru: Fujimori’s son linked to drug-trafficking inquiry

Alberto Fujimori, right, with his daughter, Keiko
Americas

Peru: Fujimori’s son linked to drug-trafficking inquiry

World

Postcard from... Lima

Wild world: Tambopata Research Centre
Americas

Peru: Amazonian conservation in action

Interim President Nicolas Maduro; Henrique Capriles is the most likely choice to challenge Maduro in a snap election
Americas

Anointed heir of Hugo Chavez faces competition for the poisoned

Jamie Neal and Garrett Hand didn’t know that their enforced internet silence had rung alarm bells
Americas

'This is insane!' Couple feared abducted in Peru are found - kayaking

Wild world: Tambopata Research Centre
Americas

Peru: Amazonian conservation in action

Interim President Nicolas Maduro; Henrique Capriles is the most likely choice to challenge Maduro in a snap election
Americas

Anointed heir of Hugo Chavez faces competition for the poisoned

Jamie Neal and Garrett Hand didn’t know that their enforced internet silence had rung alarm bells
Americas

'This is insane!' Couple feared abducted in Peru are found - kayaking

A supporter of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez waves the national flag in front of the military hospital where Chavez is being treated, in Caracas
Americas

World Focus: Has Hugo Chavez come home to rule – or home to die?

Americas

World Focus: Has Hugo Chavez come home to rule – or home to die?

A supporter of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez waves the national flag in front of the military hospital where Chavez is being treated, in Caracas
President Chavez had a fourth round of cancer surgery last month
Americas

Venezuela forced to face prospect of life without president Hugo

Mexico’s new president, Enrique Peña Nieto, will be sworn in today
Americas

Stakes are high as Mexico's new President bids to end the bloodshed

Indigenous Colombians drag a soldier from a military post on Mount Berlin. They expelled troops from the area after harassment by Farc guerrillas
Americas

Farc demands land in return for peace

World

Postcard from... Peru

World

Postcard from... Peru

Nicolás Maduro with Hugo Chávez earlier this month
Americas

Waiting in the shadow of Hugo Chavez

Hugo Chávez celebrates being re-elected, while opposition leader, Henrique Capriles, warned a chastened president that he must govern for all Venezuelans
Americas

Man of the people Chavez survives scare to extend rule

<b>Henrique Capriles</b> <br />Capriles studied law at university, but has spent almost his entire adult life in politics, working as a local mayor, member of congress and, since 2008, governor of Miranda, the wealthiest of the country's 23 states. Capriles was charged and cleared – twice – with orchestrating violent protests outside the Cuban embassy during the 2002 coup. He has always denied the accusation and claims he was mediating between the ambassador and the mob.
Americas

Hugo Chavez finally meets his match

Ivan Velázquez Caballero, in the checked shirt, and two suspects are paraded with drugs and weapons seized during their arrest
Americas

The end of El Taliban: Mexico captures one of its most-wanted drugs

Some of the mangrove in Bajo Lempa destroyed by rising sea levels
News

El Salvador in battle against tide of climate change

News

Crisis in the cloudforest for woolly wonders

Riot police in the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa
Americas

Can private cities save a nation with world's worst murder rate?

Aliaksandr Barankov poses in his Belarus military uniform
Americas

Ecuador rejects Belarus' extradition request of former police

World

Postcard From...Lima

Americas

First evidence of immunity to rabies found in community ravaged by

The carcass of a cow in the state of Nuevo Leon
News

Chihuahua: Where the rain doesn't fall any more

News

Chihuahua: Where the rain doesn't fall any more

The carcass of a cow in the state of Nuevo Leon
Marchers in Montevideo call for marijuana to be legalised earlier this year
Americas

Nationalisation: Uruguay's solution to its drug problem

Enrique Peña Nieto is the new face of the PRI, which is leading in the opinion polls with 45 per cent of the vote
Americas

The ghosts of Mexico's past

Americas

Mexico City considers bullfight ban

Guerrillas attacked a helicopter transporting armed police
Americas

Shining Path sniper kills Peruvian policewoman

Guerrillas attacked a helicopter transporting armed police
Americas

Shining Path sniper kills Peruvian policewoman

Shining Path guerrillas
Americas

Return of the Shining Path

The trapped miners vowed to walk to freedom at the end of their ordeal but needed the help of their rescuers when they finally emerged
Americas

Nine Peruvian miners walk free after six-day ordeal

Lurigancho's inmates took to the roof in 2005 after five people were killed
Americas

Sex and drugs and private cells: Behind bars in South America

Hebe de Bonafini, centre, and members of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo last year
hei-fi-entertainment

The Mothers of the Disappeared beset by corruption scandal

Hebe de Bonafini, centre, and members of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo last year
Americas

Argentina's 'Disappeared', the mothers and the money

News

Simeon Tegel: Is the term 'negrito' racist? Sadly for the FA, yes and

Tens of thousands took to the streets to protest against the presidential candidacy of Keiko Fujimori, daughter of Alberto, ahead of elections last June
Americas

Sterilisation: Peru's darkest secret

A cayman in Laguna Ibera, Esteros del Ibera, Corrientes province, home to the maned wolf and the giant jabiru stork
News

The nature reserve dream of a 'gringo imperialist'

Police took control of the notorious Rocinha slum in Rio without as hot being fired
hei-fi-news

Forces seize Rio's largest slum in war on drug gangs

Police took control of the notorious Rocinha slum in Rio without as hot being fired
Americas

Armed police drive out drug gangs in battle for Rio's slums

Americas

Venezuela prays for kidnapped Major League baseball star

Americas

Venezuela prays for kidnapped Major League baseball star

Daniel Ortega replaced his Marxist rhetoric with frequent references to God and Jesus
Americas

Ortega heading for third term in Nicaragua presidential poll

Americas

How the hunt for seafood is ravaging a tropical island

Americas

Chavez to seize homes and hotels for the poor on idyllic Los Roques

Americas

Tribal protesters seize Bolivia's Foreign Minister

Americas

Tribal protesters seize Bolivia's Foreign Minister

The parents of a kidnap victim: Mexico has overtaken Colombia as the kidnap capital of the world
Americas

Wealthy Mexicans turn to tracking devices as kidnap rate soars

hei-fi-entertainment

Is Morales putting his eco-credentials on the road to ruin?

News

Morales, his moral maze and a road into Amazon wilderness

Sandra Torres addresses supporters of her National Unity of Hope Party outside the constitutional court, which ruled her divorce was no more than a political ploy
Americas

Divorce 'ploy' costs former Guatemalan first lady her presidential

The Andean condor has the largest wing surface of any flying bird
News

Why the day of the condor could be drawing to a close

Americas

Foreign tourists denied entry to Machu Picchu

Americas

Venezuelans told to stay calm after Chavez's cancer treatment

Americas

Former first lady Sandra Torres faces election block

Americas

Humala victorious as Fujimori concedes

Americas

Fujimori campaign raises fears for democracy in Peru

Americas

Chile president's corpse exhumed to finally settle suicide claims

News

Tobacco firms 'cannot be sued'

News

Lorries to be seized in move on refugees

News

Pinochet immunity is bogus, says QC

Crime

Pinochet immunity is bogus, says QC

News

Condon faces inquiry grilling

News

Pinochet immunity is bogus, says QC

Crime

Pinochet immunity is bogus, says QC

News

Condon faces inquiry grilling

News

Pop musician `was set on fire'

News

Mystery death of burning musician

News

Police deny attempt to coach Lawrence officers

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