A longtime correspondent for Newsweek, Mac Margolis has traveled extensively in Brazil and Latin America. He has contributed to The Economist, The Washington Post, and The Christian Science Monitor, and is the author of The Last New World: The Conquest of the Amazon Frontier.
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Return of the Gladiator
How mixed martial arts took the fighting world by storm. MORE
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The To-Do List From Hell
Rio+20 had good intentions, but the outcome was conspicuously short of goals, writes Mac Margolis. MORE
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Is Rio’s UN Summit a Failure?
Rio+20, 20 years after the famed Earth Summit, looks like a bust as world leaders arrive.... MORE
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Lula Returns
Brazil’s favorite son is cancer-free. But will he run for office? MORE
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Chávez Fuels Friendship With Syria
Mac Margolis reports on Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s efforts to aid Syrian strongman, Bashar... MORE
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Remembering Carlos Fuentes
The passionate novelist was Latin America’s literary father.... MORE
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Mexico’s Universal Man
Celebrated writer and leftist Carlos Fuentes, who died Tuesday, was a polyglot man of letters and a... MORE
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A Henchman Comes Clean
In the chilly 'Memories of a Dirty War', Cláudio Guerra recalls his days in Brazil's military... MORE
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Bad Behavior in Brazil
Three U.S. Marines were allegedly involved in an incident that hospitalized a stripper.... MORE
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Obama’s Latin Attention Disorder
Mac Margolis on Cartagena’s real scandal—the sour relations between the U.S.... MORE
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The Escorts’ Morning After
Exclusive: A cabbie recounts driving the Secret Service’s call girls.... MORE
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Brazil’s Shocking Cannibal Arrests
A Brazilian man and two women have been charged with murder and cannibalism, Mac Margolis reports. MORE
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Bolaño's Literary Ghost
Even ‘The Secret of Evil,' a posthumous collection of essays and short stories by the great Chilean... MORE
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Cartagena Minefield for Obama
At this weekend’s summit, the president faces clashes on the drug war, Castro, and more.... MORE
