Alex Leff

Alex Leff

Senior Editor

Alex Leff was a senior editor at PRI based in Washington, DC. He previously worked as GlobalPost's Americas editor and Costa Rica correspondent.

While in Costa Rica, Alex also worked as a Reuters reporter and online editor for The Tico Times.

A Brooklyn native, Alex went global in 2000, living in Spain for seven years. In Barcelona is where he deepened his love for journalism, reporting at a local English-language paper and completing a Barcelona University master's in journalism organized with Columbia University.

Recent Stories

Photos: Rare wild horses are making a stunning return to Mongolia

July 04, 2017

Decades after being driven to extinction in their homeland, Przewalski's horses are being reintroduced into Mongolia's desert and mountains.

Aid groups rescue over 1,600 migrants in the Mediterranean in a single day

May 23, 2017

Updated

05/29/2017 - 9:45am

The World’s Richard Hall reported aboard Save the Children's rescue ship in the Mediterranean. On Tuesday, they saved 635 people — a record for the group's sea rescue operations. Doctors Without Borders rescued another 1,004 people on the same day.

Yemen: We support the US against terrorism. It’s not fair to punish entire countries like criminals.

January 29, 2017

Yemen had strong words for President Donald Trump this weekend following his new refugee and migrant restrictions.

These are the new instructions the State Department rushed to embassies worldwide

January 29, 2017

Updated

01/30/2017 - 4:15pm

If the rollout of Friday’s order seemed hasty or disorganized to outsiders, a US government official who spoke to us also perceives a rather chaotic process unfolding — and seems uncertain what will come next.

Agence France-Presse

A long river of trash runs through a Beirut suburb

February 25, 2016

Why is Lebanon's cosmopolitan capital such a stinking mess?

See the Milky Way mapped out in stunning detail

February 24, 2016

Thank you, European Southern Observatory.

What's it like under 1,000 percent inflation? Venezuela could be about to find out.

January 26, 2016

New jaw-dropping numbers are out that suggest just how badly things have become in the oil-rich South American nation.

Business, Finance & Economics

Venezuela’s inflation is forecast to jump up to 1,000 percent this year

January 22, 2016

Updated

01/25/2016 - 6:30am

This is exacting a tragic toll, says the IMF's regional director.

Argentina’s election was a huge victory for frackers and capitalists

November 23, 2015

For fans of lefty populist ways, not so much. But there is one thing they agree on.

One thousand officers are still hunting a single man in Belgium

November 23, 2015

Officials have put the city of Brussels on lockdown for a third day as authorities pursue one of the suspects in the Paris attacks.

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