Quico Toro

Quico Toro is a writer at www.onepercentbrighter.com and a contributing editor at Persuasion. He's based in Tokyo.

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  1. Trump’s Colombia Spat Is a Gift to China

    Latin American leaders don’t like submitting to the United States in imperial mode. They also have an alternative.

    Collage of a photo of Gustavo Petro and Donald Trump
    Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Getty; Anna Moneymaker / Getty; Drew Angerer / Getty.
  2. How to Defeat a Mafia State

    An unlikely coalition of urban professionals and Indigenous people has pulled off something extraordinary in Guatemala.

    Demonstration in Guatemala
    Johan Ordonez / AFP / Getty