
Samantha Schmidt
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Bogotá bureau chief for @washingtonpost, covering South America. Costa Rican, Minnesotan, she/her/ella. [email protected]
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'Great deal of fear' in Venezuela The U.S. is considering offering amnesty to Venezuelan President Maduro for ceding power, according to the WSJ. Samantha Schmidt joins José Díaz-Balart to report more on the situation, saying the U.S. wants Latin American countries to take the lead.


Could Diego Maradona's death have been prevented? Trial begins Wednesday for the first of eight members of his medical team charged with homicide David Feliba reports from Buenos Aires with Samantha Schmidt washingtonpost.com/world/2024/10/…

Was Maradona’s death preventable? Argentina puts his doctors on trial. Story for The Washington Post with Samantha Schmidt washingtonpost.com/world/2024/10/…

'Diego was a messed-up patient' -- the crazy tale of how Argentina is putting Maradona’s doctors on trial. By Samantha Schmidt and David Feliba wapo.st/4ev5zQY

As a global biodiversity summit begins today, this Colombian refuge for Andean bears and poisonous frogs raises the question: do we have what it takes to save nature? By Samantha Schmidt and Dino Grandoni washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

I subscribe to the The Washington Post because Caroline Kitchener covers the abortion wars with illuminating, heartfelt, nuance-and-mess-of-real-life reporting. #whyisubscribe washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/…

Scoop: Argentina's president Milei is evaluating whether to withdraw his country from the Paris climate agreement, as Trump pledges to withdraw the U.S. again. w/ David Feliba Samantha Schmidt Chico Harlan washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

BREAKING. Argentine Milei is evaluating whether to withdraw his country from Paris climate agreement as part of a broader review of all foreign policy, a senior source told The Washington Post, following his decision to recall officials at COP29 climate talks washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…


Scoop: Paraguay’s antidrug agency has decided to halt cooperation with the United States, a significant blow to U.S. efforts to curb organized crime in a country where cocaine trafficking has surged. With Kevin Sieff wapo.st/3P4k9Eh

I spoke with The Washington Post's Samantha Schmidt about enforced disappearances in Venezuela, an egregious abuse that brings Maduro closer and closer to Pinochet and Videla: washingtonpost.com/world/2025/01/…

La serie "La Toma", publicada por el The Washington Post, ganó el premio del Club de Prensa Extranjera Overseas Press Club, por la mejor reportería sobre Latinoamérica. Honrado por ser parte del equipo ganador con Samantha Schmidt. Tres de los reportajes son sobre Ecuador. washingtonpost.com/pr/2025/03/18/…


A team of The Washington Post reporters reconstructed the Trump administration's removal of more than 260 migrants to a megaprison in El Salvador. Among the findings: -At least two of the migrants believed sent arrived in the US as vetted refugees. (contd.) washingtonpost.com/immigration/20…