Sparrow Media - William Wroblewski

23/07/2026

For DW News I traveled to Cusco to start the grueling four-day hike to visit the abandoned Incan fortress Choquequirao to capture this little-known, well-preserved archeological site primed to become Peru's next tourism center.

"Choquequirao in Peru is considered the “lost sister” of Machu Picchu: a massive Inca complex hidden in the Andes and accessible only via a challenging hike lasting several days. That could soon change. A planned cable car is expected to shorten the journey to just a few minutes and so attract up to 1.2 million visitors annually. While supporters it will improve access to cultural heritage, as well as bring economic opportunities, archaeologists, environmentalists, and local residents warn about the consequences."





https://www.dw.com/en/choquequirao-remote-inca-city-peru-from-remote-ruin-to-major-tourist-attraction/video-78008933

28/05/2026

Some of my recent photos accompanying an outstanding analysis of the situation in by Angus McNelly. Worth a read.

North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)

Fuel shortages, inflation, and political exclusion have triggered a wave of fragmented unrest with no clear movement capable of channeling popular anger.

27/05/2026

Mi ultimo de la crisis en Bolivia con Agence France-Presse

06/03/2026

As Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz travels to the United States to visit with President Donald Trump, relations between the two countries, strained for two decades, are becoming closer. One of the most important changes to these relations include the planned return of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), kicked out of Bolivia by then-president Evo Morales in 2008.

This has coca farmers worried the return of US intervention in Bolivia's efforts to curb drug production may signal the renewal of policies that criminalized producers.

I traveled to Bolivia's Chapare region with AFP News Agency as Bolivia kicked off its 2026 campaign to eradicate illicit coca production in the country to see how coca producers and the state are engaging with each other in this new phase of Bolivia's relations with the United States.

[Report in Spanish]

La erradicación de cultivos ilegales de coca realizada este jueves en el Trópico de Cochabamba ha generado preocupación entre los productores locales, quiene...

06/03/2026

With a volatile metals market and global silver prices skyrocketing, a new generation of miners are entering the tunnels of Bolivia's Cerro Rico, the mine that fed the Spanish Empire. Unsafe working conditions and growing numbers of inexperienced workers, including children as young as 12, have only increased the incidence of injury and death inside "the Mountain That Eats Men".

My latest for Agence France-Presse

(Spanish version)

Deslumbrados por los altos precios internacionales de los metales, niños y jóvenes bolivianos como Efraín Villaca arriesgan su vida para roer las entrañas de...