Kate Joynes-Burgess

BBC News Website: Mexico’s Copper Canyon railway

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A photographic train journey through northern Mexico’s stunning network of six canyons. Straddling the states of Sinaloa and Chihuahua, collectively these mountainous ravines are four times bigger than the Grand Canyon.

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Life & Style monthly column: Andy the Brave, June 2009

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Kate writes a monthly column in Spanish for Mexico’s leading men’s magazine, Life&Style. Here’s what she had to say about Scotland’s big hitter Andy Murray.

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Travel+Leisure: Liverpool lifts its voice, April 2009

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Four decades after The Beatles released their last album, Kate Joynes-Burgess finds a city not only loaded with musical history but pulsating with melodic innovation.

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BBC News website: Mexico’s butterflies, 6 March 2009

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This photo-gallery profiles a new eco-tourism project within Mexico’s Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. ‘Experts say deforestation threatens the spectacular annual migration of millions of monarch butterflies from Canada and the US to forests north-west of Mexico City.

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BBC News website: Chile indigenous politics on the move, 28 January 2009

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Indigenous politics rarely register on the Chilean national radar despite flourishing across the border in Bolivia. Provincial history teacher Gustavo Quilaqueo wants to change that by quitting the classroom to found the first political party representing Chile’s forgotten indigenous people. Kate Joynes-Burgess meets him in Temuco.

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Travel+Leisure: Nicaraguan Retreats and Revelations, January 2009

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Among the Americas’ most celebrated colonial cities, competing openly with Chiapas’ San Cristobal de las Casas, Granada is an ideal base for exploring Nicaragua’s unique natural beauty. Kate Joynes-Burgess shares her discoveries.

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Travel+Leisure: Green Guide to Santiago, January 2009

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Santiago de Chile is working hard to change its reputation as one of the most contaminated cities in Latin America. Kate Joynes-Burgess discovers how the Chilean capital is becoming greener by the day.

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Travel+Leisure: Three Flavours of Veracruz, December 2008

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The port of Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico is finally developing a food scene. Kate Joynes-Burgess discovers three gastronomic offerings to satisfy the most demanding of palates.

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Mexico Deserves Global Gratitude for Swine Flu Response

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I am taking this opportunity to voice a big “hear, hear” to Laurie Garrett, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, who praised Mexico’s unflinchingly meticulous response to the recent swine flu outbreak.

In an interview with the New York Times she said “the whole world should be saying, ‘Gracias, amigos,’ to the Mexicans for the tremendous sacrifice they have made…[which] may have stopped what otherwise would have been a serious pandemic”. Ms Garrett is author of “The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance ” (Penguin, 1995).

Difficult times lie ahead but let’s hope Mexico will ultimately reap rewards for its handling of the crisis in the form of renewed public confidence in its government that should, in turn, encourage tourists to come back.

Guatemala’s new National Justice and Security Pact

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Guatemalan authorities and diverse representatives of civil society signed a 101-point security pact on 15 April. I commented on the significance of these far-reaching reforms in an interview with Xinhua News Agency.

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