Martin Langfield is a writer and journalist. He was a foreign correspondent, bureau chief and editor for Reuters from 1987 to 2019, working mostly in the Americas. He reported mainly from El Salvador, Mexico, Madrid, Miami, Peru, Cuba, Nicaragua, London and New York. He later worked with the company's Breakingviews commentary team. Martin studied French and Spanish languages and literature at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University in England. He has also worked as an English teacher in Paris and studied indigenous literature in Mexico. He lives in New York.