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.
-
article
Bigger than Coelho?
Brazil’s star preacher is the country’s new best-selling author of fuzzy, feel-good spirituality. MORE
-
article
Dilma Thumps for Women
In her historic U.N. opener, Brazil's Dilma Rousseff declared a “century of women.” By Mac Margolis.... MORE
-
article
Don’t Mess With Dilma
A woman is president in booming, macho Brazil. And Dilma Rousseff’s calling the shots.... MORE
-
article
The New Gold Rush
Miners ravage Amazon rainforest as investors turn to gold. MORE
-
article
A Brazilian Straight Pride Day?
Mac Margolis reports on the response to a councilman’s bill to create “Hetero Pride Day" in São... MORE
-
article
Peru’s Difficult Balancing Act
Can nationalist president Ollanta Humala’s bid to please both business and leftists work?... MORE
-
article
Why So Quiet, Hugo?
Venezuelans are scratching their heads over the mysterious silence of their ordinarily garrulous... MORE
-
article
Lea T.'s Runway Revolution
Brazil’s hottest new model is tall, dark, and glamorous. She’s also a he.... MORE
-
article
Welcome to Rio's Shantytown Counterinsurgency
MORE
-
article
Peru Election Is Evidence of Reinvigorated Region
Is this economic powerhouse of the Andes about to prove that the "Lula effect" will win the battle... MORE
-
article
Guatemala's Political Telenovela: First Couple Divorces
In a telenovela-worthy political scheme that has set this violence-wracked nation abuzz, the... MORE
-
article
Why Obama's Trip Will Pay Off
Fighting back against much criticism, the president’s five-day tour continues today in Chile, where... MORE
-
article
How Obama's Latin America Tour Could Help the Economy
With Japan and the Middle East in turmoil, critics are blasting Obama's Latin America tour as... MORE
-
article
Marta: Brazil's Pint-Size Football Star
When Marta Vieira da Silva was 10, a skinny tomboy in Dois Riachos, her hometown in the Brazilian... MORE
