Journalist and writer, she began her career in the Nicaragua of the Sandinista struggle. She covered conflicts in Central America for The Washington Post and The Guardian, and has since written tirelessly on Latin America for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, National Geographic magazine and occasionally also for El País. She entered the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001. In 2008, at the invitation of Gabriel García Márquez, she held the Julio Cortázar Chair at the University of Guadalajara. Among her many awards, the 2018 Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities, the MacArthur Fellowship and El País’s Ortega y Gasset career award stand out. As a lecturer she has taught courses on Latin America at the universities of Harvard, Chicago, Princeton, and California-Berkeley, and on science journalism at Bogota’s Javeriana University. She has written, among other books, Desde el país de nunca jamás (2011), La Habana en un espejo (2017), ¿Será que soy feminista? (2020) and her latest publication, La vida toda (2022).