JAMES FRANCIS WHITEHEAD
journalist, correspondent & creative writer
Welcome to my digital warehouse, home to a collection of published articles and stories.
Argentina and Latin America correspondent for Courthouse News Service (CNS).
Featured in a number of newspapers and magazines, including the Morning Star, Latin America Bureau, Buenos Aires Times, China Daily, Cafébabel, Amplescope Magazine, and PYLOT Magazine.
PUBLISHED ARTICLES
Latin America Bureau
July 28 2022
As Argentina slips deeper into poverty amid an economic crisis, the capital Buenos Aires has approved two major urban development projects that would transform the city’s riverside into new luxury neighbourhoods overlooking the River Plate.
Latin America Bureau
15 October 2021
Fleeing economic insecurity at home, Venezuelans now find themselves confronted by a new crisis.
Morning Star
15 April 2021
The next article in this three-part series looks at the authoritarian state’s fascination with football, and why right-wing groups head to the turnstiles.
Morning Star
14 April 2021
In the first of a three-part series, I take a look at football as a vehicle for social movement, with no stronger cultural engine than the world’s most dominant sport.
Morning Star
29 November 2020
From Buenos Aires, I consider the reaction to Maradona’s death, his historic last season before it, and the politics of one of the most popular players in history.
Amplescope Magazine
25 November 2020
A collaborative project with photographer Josh David Payne, aimed at mass consumer culture and its degrading climate consequences.
Buenos Aires Times
30 May 2020
When the coronavirus pandemic hit, third-year med student Celeste, on residency in Barcelona, had a choice: head home or join her hospital’s fight on the frontlines against Covid-19.
Morning Star
3 February 2018
Congolese Pastor Simon Ntumba, who fled to Britain, talks to the Star’s James Whitehead about the continuing conflict which is tearing apart the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Cafe Babel
16 October 2017
If we wish to rebuild society democratically, then buying from cooperatives gives consumers a radical, red, alternative. This is one strategy to practice anti-capitalism.
PYLOT Magazine
15 December 2016
Press your finger on the pages of history and you will scroll across a long-term marriage: the marriage of money and flowers.
Cafe Babel
29 June 2016
Why the dramatic ending to the painful Brexit story is best told through a narrative of increasing inequality and social class, which lie dormant beneath the surface.
Cafe Babel
24 May 2016
British politicians are often reluctant to bring religion into the public realm. Yet religious references from a British head of government do occasionally make their way into national discourse.
China Daily
16 November 2014
They are the band of online sweethearts roaming the social sphere, heating lonely hearts, and fueling China’s rising hormone economy: the untouchable lovers, recently picked up in parts of the media.
China Daily
15 August 2014
Cracks of light begin to break through the hazy skies. Two hours later, the plane lands in the autonomous region of Guangxi Zhuang, a place that lies in southern China, bordering Vietnam.