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Isabella Cota
Isabella Cota is a freelance journalist based in Ciudad de México, Mexico. As a former Bloomberg Correspondent she has covered Latin America's most exciting business, financial, political and social stories. She was previously with Reuters and has collaborated with The Guardian, BBC Mundo, NPR and PRI among other international outlets. In Mexico, her investigative reporting led her to a collaboration with the prestigious unit Quinto Elemento Lab.
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López Obrador proposes to continue with his Pemex rescue and warns of 'foreign dependence' on clean energies
Mexican debt, the new darling of Wall Street
Drought, social discontent, and inflation limited Latin American economies in 2023: the outlook for 2024 is similar
Moody's highlights Mexico as a safe investment destination 'amid intensifying risks in Latin America'
Mexican Employers' Confederation labels López Obrador's proposal to eliminate autonomous bodies as 'authoritarian regression'
CEO of First Quantum Minerals: ‘We want to be part of the solution around what happens now in Panama and the mine’
Argentina, Colombia, and Bolivia among the least prepared emerging economies to face a global crisis
Protests against the exploitation of a copper mine expose the clash between two environmentalisms in Panama
Consulting the doctor at the supermarket: large companies enter the health business taking advantage of public system gaps
Higher inflation and financial volatility: the risks of the conflict in Gaza for Latin American economies
Central America's drug cartels are turning their attention to trafficking people. Across the region, a deadly combination of mass undocumented migration, poverty, and the breakdown of law and order are proving fertile ground for a thriving and increasingly unbreakable trade in people.
Mexicans Are Disappearing From Texas in Latest Twist on Oil Bust - The plunge in the peso has throttled the purchasing power of Silvia Guerra’s most important customers: shoppers from south-of-the-border cities like Nuevo Laredo, Monterrey and Saltillo.
2016 was supposed to be Mexico's year, at least according to Wall Street. But with Donald Trump's arrival and trader's indiscriminate use of the peso as their favorite hedging tool, the currency absorbed shocks and left it battered.
A deep dive into Mexico's data into murders of women shows femicides are being underclassified by authorities as the government faces record levels of violence.
The 89% Pay Cut That Brought Trump-Mania to America's Heartland: Understanding the Republican candidate's anti-free trade, working-class appeal. Prior to Nafta, trade between the U.S. and Mexico was a relatively tame affair. The two sides alternated between deficits and surpluses—small figures, typically no bigger than a few billion dollars. U.S. exports quickly jumped after the accord went into effect in 1994, but the imports pouring in from Mexico climbed faster, and by 2015, the U.S. was posting a deficit of almost $60 billion.
A seven-month investigation piece the Mexico City neighborhood of Renovación, where life and business revolve around electronic waste, much of it from the U.S.