Eyder Peralta
Eyder Peralta is an international correspondent for NPR. He was named NPR's Mexico City correspondent in 2022. Before that, he was based in Cape Town, South Africa. He started his journalism career as a pop music critic and after a few newspaper stints, he joined NPR in 2008.
In his career, Peralta has reported from more than 20 countries on four continents. In 2022, his coverage of East Africa was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the Audio Reporting category.
Peralta joined NPR as associate producer, working his way up to become an international correspondent in 2016.
While based in Nairobi, Kenya, and then Cape Town, South Africa, he crisscrossed the African continent. He's interviewed presidents, covered resistance movements, civil war, Ebola and the coronavirus pandemic. He spent years reporting a profile on the most vulgar woman in Uganda. He wrote about house music in South Africa, the joy of mango season in Kenya, a baby elephant boom, hyenas and even how he ended up jailed for four days in South Sudan.
On occasion, he was dispatched to other regions, including Venezuela and Ukraine to cover the Russian invasion.
Previously, Peralta reported breaking news for NPR based out of Washington, D.C., where he covered everything from the American rapprochement with Cuba to natural disasters to the national debates on policing and immigration.
In 2009 and 2014, Peralta was part of the NPR teams that received the George Foster Peabody Award. His 2016 investigative feature on the death of Philando Castile was honored by the National Association of Black Journalists and the Society for News Design.
Peralta was born amid a civil war in Matagalpa, Nicaragua. His parents fled when he was child and they settled in Miami. Peralta graduated with a journalism degree from Florida International University.
He is married to writer and author Cynthia Leonor Garza. They have three young daughters, who occasionally do their own reporting.
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The arrest last summer of Mexico's most elusive drug lord set off a bloody regional war, leaving more than 1,000 dead and more than 1,000 missing. NPR reports from the state of Sinaloa.
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As the crisis in Haiti deepens, a record number of people have been forced to leave their homes due to gang violence according to the United Nations.
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President Trump announces a sweeping travel ban on citizens from 12 countries, with restrictions on seven others -- evoking the "Muslim ban" Trump introduced during his first term.
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Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international correspondents share snapshots of moments from their lives and work around the world. -
Voters across Mexico went to the polls on Sunday to elect thousands of judges, from the local level to the Supreme Court, in an election that will change their democracy in fundamental ways.
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Mexico is set to elect its judges by popular vote — a move that critics warn could undermine judicial independence and empower organized crime.
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A new album from a Mexican singer-songwriter gives voice to the stories of real women who were incarcerated for killing their abusive partners.
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Human rights groups have called for the immediate release of Ruth López, whose whereabouts are unknown since her arrest by police in El Salvador late Sunday. -
There are signs that China is trying to spy on the US from Cuba. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe discusses developments with correspondent Eyder Peralta, who recently met with Cuba's deputy foreign minister.
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Jorge Mario Bergoglio became the first Latin American pope when he was elected 12 years ago. People on his home continent are mourning his death and paying their respects.
