Mat Youkee is a freelance journalist and analyst covering Latin America and the Caribbean from his base in Bogotá, Colombia. An emerging markets reporter since 2007, his regular work maintains a strong business and economics focus and he travels regularly across the continent to write in-depth analyses of sectors including extractive industries, finance, agriculture and health care. His work has been published in The Guardian, Americas Quarterly, the Financial Times, Roads & Kingdoms, and The Steel Crown, the unofficial journal of the lost Kingdom of Araucania & Patagonia.