Belén Fernández

Belén Fernández

Belén Fernández is the author of The Darién Gap: A Reporter’s Journey through the Deadly Crossroads of the Americas (Rutgers UP, 2025), Inside Siglo X...XI: Locked Up in Mexico’s Largest Immigration Detention Center (OR Books, 2022), Checkpoint Zipolite: Quarantine in a Small Place (OR Books, 2021), Exile: Rejecting America and Finding the World (OR Books, 2019), Martyrs Never Die: Travels through South Lebanon (Warscapes, 2016), and The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work (Verso, 2011). She has written for The New York Times, the London Review of Books blog, The Baffler, Current Affairs, and Middle East Eye, among numerous other publications.


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As talk of nuclear threats gives way to promises of ‘help’, the Bush-era logic of regime change re-emerges.

Opinion by Belén Fernández
Published On 14 Jan 2026
YOKOSUKA, JAPAN - OCTOBER 28: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to troops aboard USS George Washington on October 28, 2025 in Yokosuka, Japan. Trump is visiting Japan, fresh off an appearance at the ASEAN summit in Malaysia, and will next travel to South Korea for the APEC meetings. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)

This holiday season, Americans are getting a bad economy, redacted Epstein files and even more war abroad.

Opinion by Belén Fernández
Published On 22 Dec 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a speech next to first lady Melania Trump during the National Christmas Tree ceremony at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 4, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder