Alberto Arce

Alberto Arce is a Knight Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan. He joined the Associated Press (AP) in February 2012 as a correspondent in Honduras, where for several years he was the only foreign correspondent to report from Tegucigalpa. He later joined AP’s Mexico City bureau, where he continued to cover Central America before going to The New York Times as an editor. He has an Overseas press Club Award for best reporting on Latin America.

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Curse of Geography:
La Mosquitia

Written by Sidd Joag and Alberto Arce, Illustrations by German Andino

For most people in La Mosquitia, the far eastern coast of Honduras, there are only two forms of gainful employment – lobster fishing and drug trafficking. 90% of the cocaine that ends up in the United States passes through this isolated and neglected corner of the world.

Curse of Geography:La Mosquitia

Curse of Geography:
La Mosquitia