Jonathan’s writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian, The Far Eastern Economic Review, and Institutional Investor. His articles can be categorized in three primary fields: Profiles of major business groups and leaders, coverage of high-profile events, and human-interest stories and curiosities. He also maintains a blog which explores some of his own interests, professional know-how, and analysis of current events.

  • The Residential Real Estate Business Needs Digital Disruption – Washington Post 2019

    The MLS Monopoly over the Real Estate Market is Ripping off Consumers and Should be Broken

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  • Should the US Provide Aid to Savimbi’s Rebels ? – New York Times 1985

    A Point-Counter Point Argument with Sen. Jack Kemp About US Aid to Angola’s UNITA Rebels

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  • Troubled at Home, Asian Loggers Set Their Sights on the Amazon

    Malaysian and South Korean loggers pile into Guyana having stripped much of Southeast Asia and the Pacific bare of hardwoods

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  • Environmentalists Extend Their Reach Across Latin America

    Chileans take the lead in civic action against environmental destruction, but other Latin Americans are hot on their heels

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  • Oil Companies Strive to Turn A New Leaf To Save the Rainforest

    Shell tries not to make the same mistakes as Mobil in taking on Peru’s gigantic Camisea natural gas field

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  • Rivals Expand for Global Fishers, as Fleets Grow and Hauls Wane

    Near Antarctica, overfishing of the Chilean Sea Bass shows just how humans have depleted the oceans.

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  • A Dancer Who Extracts Beauty From Ugliness – Far Eastern Economic Review

    A Profile of Akaji Maro, Founder of Notorious Japanese Butoh Troupe Dairakudakan

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  • Argentine Governor with a Notorious Past is Returned to Office

    The People of Tucuman Elected a Military Torturer Because they Were Sick of Corruption

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  • Argentine’s Goal: Turn Soccer into a Money Machine

    Mauricio Macri Takes his First Step Towards the Presidency by Reviving a Troubled Boca Juniors

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  • Seeds of Discontent in the Fields Of Argentina Vex Plantation Boss

    How Seaboard Corp’s bid to make a modern agribusiness of an old sugarcane plantation ran into a mix of historical distrust and present-day guerrilla tactics

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  • Grenada, A Slow Start, a Chancy Future – New York Times – 1984

    The Reagan Administration, Having Invaded, Tried to Make Capitalism Work. It Didn’t

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  • Argentina is a Land of Many Faces, Fixed By Plastic Surgeons – WSJ

    In Buenos Aires, people wear their new noses proudly, sometimes with bandages

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  • In Disposable Diaper Wars, Brands Want to Clean Up

    P&G and Kimberley Clark duke it out over babies’ bottoms in Brazil

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  • Oviedo Fails to Conquer, But Still Hopes to Lead

    A Paraguay Coup Goes Completely Wrong in a Wildly Operatic Way

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  • Once Poor, Chileans Jet About Investing, Annoying, Investing

    Chile has become a major investor in Argentina, Bolivia and Peru and locals hate them

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  • In Punte del Este, Argentines Resort to a Lot of Whining

    Argentines flock to Uruguay’s vacation hotspot every January and spend time bitching about each other

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  • Spain Finally Finds El Dorado in Latin American Business

    Big Spanish Companies Made Huge Investments in Latin America, sure they were right, Eventually they weren’t

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  • Utility Deregulation in Latin America Presages Possible U.S. Upheaval

    A Privatization Boom in Argentina Paved the Way for the Later Collapse of the California Electricity Market and the Texas Grid

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  • New Latin America Meets Devil of Old: Rampant Corruption

    In Latin America’s era of free-market economies, scandals still come cheap

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  • Argentina Booms, But Workers Fear They’ll be Forgotten

    Privatization and Peronism clash head to head in the oil fields of Tartagal

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  • Don’t Cry For Them, Mayors Gain Power in Latin America

    From Lima, Peru to Mendoza. Argentina, mayors for the first time are playing a major role in national politics – sometimes making the presidency

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  • WalMart Changes Tactics to Meet International Tastes

    American footballs and lawn mowers fail to wow Brazilians and Argentines as the giant American retailer expands globally

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