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.
On the Caribbean coast of La Mosquitia, Honduras, where lobster fishing and drug trafficking are the only forms of gainful employment, isolation, crippling corruption and the drug war has wrought devastating consequences on the indigenous Miskito people.