Angus MacSwan
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Position: specialist sub-editor
Angus MacSwan has reported for Reuters for 25 years from Asia, Latin America, the United States, the Middle East, South Africa and the Balkans. He has covered events from the overthrow of President Marcos in the Philippines in 1986 to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. He stood next to Archbishop Desmond Tutu when he voted in South Africa's first free election and witnessed the arrival of the first prisoners to the U.S. camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Blog Posts
China's Long March into Latin America
The United States spent years trying to keep communism out of Latin America. Now communist China is making increasing inroads into the region, but as a capitalist power. R. Evan Ellis, author of a new book on China in Latin America, says it "does not have a nefarious interest, but it has strategic interests". Full Article | Comments [5]
The Russians are coming -- Caribbean Crisis redux?
The thought of Russian warships cruising the waters of the Caribbean instinctively revives memories of such Cold War episodes as the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Russia is sending a heavily armed nuclear-powered ... Full Article | Comments [20]
