Carolina Ortiz

Carolina runs the Latin America desk, which means most of the questions that reach her arrive in Spanish or Portuguese and carry a tax wrinkle attached. Before editing she spent years as an international tax associate at a Big Four firm, so a sentence about FIRPTA withholding or a US-Mexico treaty position does not make her flinch. She reads the fine print first and writes the plain-language version second.

Her beat covers the buyers who move the Miami market quietly: Mexican families buying a second home, Colombian and Argentine investors hedging their savings in dollars, Brazilians navigating the 15% withholding on a future sale. She is careful about one line in particular. She is an editor, not an attorney or a CPA, so her work points you toward the right licensed professional rather than standing in for one.