Isabel DeBre starts as a Senior Southern Cone correspondent for The Associated Press

Isabel DeBre, an OPC Foundation Scholar Award winner in 2018, has started a new role as The Associated Press’ senior correspondent for the Southern Cone based in Buenos Aires, covering Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. Before relocating to South America this past spring, she worked for more than five years in the Middle East, most recently as an AP reporter for Gaza and the West Bank covering the Israel-Hamas war. Prior to Jerusalem, she worked as a correspondent in AP’s Cairo and Dubai bureaus, where she covered Egypt, Sudan, Yemen, Iran and the Gulf.