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English journalist (born )

Michael Reid (born ) is an English journalist, writer and commentator on Latin American and Iberian affairs.

Life and work

Born in Britain, Reid studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford. He is currently a senior editor at The Economist, writing the "Bello" column on Latin America while also covering Spain.

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After a period in Lima between and he now lives in Madrid. Between and December , he was the newspaper's Americas Editor, overseeing coverage of Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada. He is the author of 12 Special Reports for The Economist, most recently on Spain (July ) and Colombia ().

He started as a freelance journalist based in Lima in , covering the Andean countries for The Guardian and the BBC, among other media outlets. He began writing for The Economist in , as Mexico and Central America Correspondent, and in changed to cover consumer industries.

Between and he was