Rafael Santos

Rafael Santos leads Always Packed's South America coverage, from Afro-Brazilian cultural capitals to Andean high routes and Amazon river journeys. His guides pair the continent's scale with ground-level practicality: altitude, distances, seasons, and the neighbourhoods where a city actually lives. Rafael writes about Afro-Latin heritage as a central thread of the continent's story, and his Brazil coverage treats Salvador, Recife, and Rio as the distinct worlds they are. This profile is an Always Packed editorial desk, a named collection of editors and researchers publishing under a shared beat and voice.