Laurence Blair is a British freelance journalist covering politics, human rights, and social and environmental issues in Paraguay and Latin America for outlets including the BBC, CNN, The New York Times, the Guardian, The Economist and many others.
He is the founding editor of The Paraguay Post, an independent source of news and analysis on the country. His 2025 investigation on deforestation, poverty and organised crime in the Mbaracayú Forest Reserve won Paraguay’s National Environmental Journalism Prize. He studied history at university and is the author of Patria: Lost Countries of South America (Bodley Head, 2024), a critically acclaimed history of the continent.
