Lode Delputte is a freelance journalist from Belgium.

Lode Delputte writes about Latin America and has written books about Cuba and Brazil - but he also teaches Spanish, French, Dutch and journalism.

He studied Romance languages and literature and international politics. In addition to Cuba, Delputte has written about the drug war in Colombia, ore mines in Peru and youth gangs in Central America.

Lode Delputte

Basic information

Name
Lode Delputte
Title
Journalist and teacher
Expertise
Latin America
Country
Belgium
City
Brussels

Supported projects

Brazilian boom

  • Politics

BRASILIA - For 'Braziliaanse bloei' (Brazilian boom) Lode Delputte travelled throughout the country. In his passionate stories, Delputte outlines the great changes that make Brazil such a fascinating country.

Cuba after Castro

  • Politics

HAVANA - Everyone has an opinion about Cuba, but in 'Cuba after Castro' Lode Delputte shows what is really at stake. Cuba's future is inextricably linked to its self-proclaimed glorious past. No reasonable person would doubt that Fidel Castro's time is long gone. Even the political elite in Havana have come to understand that today's revolution is but a glimpse of what it used to be.