On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 2:53 PM John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> wrote:

> I believe this is due to the new syntax change for export blocks
> announced a bit back. See:
> - http://orgmode.org/cgit.cgi/org-mode.git/plain/etc/ORG-NEWS
>
> Try this instead:
>
> * Hello
> #+BEGIN_export latex
> hi I am latex
> #+END_export
>

I was going to say the same but then I saw that Andrea is using an
org-plus-contrib version. The new syntax would go in effect in org 9.0 or
for someone using org built from the master branch.

It should not affect users using org from maint branch or
org/org-plus-contrib from Org Elpa.
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