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Southern Affairs offers news articles, research essays, and book reviews on current and historical topics in Latin America. Founded in 2006, the site is published by N. H. Gill, PhD, a professor of history and former bureau chief for Bloomberg News in Ecuador. Gill teaches global history at North Carolina Central University and serves as a visiting research associate professor at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador.

Southern Affairs also publishes Nature Wars, a bi-weekly newsletter providing expert research and in-depth analysis of the conflicts — environmental, social, and ideological — shaping natural resource markets in the South American Andes and Amazon.

Contact:
N. H. Gill, PhD
Publisher, Southern Affairs
nhgill@southernaffairs.org