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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The Brazilian Director Who Beat Out 'Avatar'
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Cesare Battisti, the Murderer Taunting Italy
Brazil has halted the extradition of one of Italy’s most notorious criminals.... MORE
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Cesare Battisti, the Murderer Taunting Italy
Brazil has halted the extradition of one of Italy’s most notorious criminals.... MORE
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Paulo Coehlo Banned in Iran
Over the years, Iran’s theocracy has fearlessly thumbed its nose at Israel, the United States, and... MORE
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Venezuela's Hugo Chávez: Nice Weather for Autocrats
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Welfare for the Developing World's Poor
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Chávez Uses Natural Disaster to Grab More Power
As torrential rains swept Venezuela in early December, leaving some 35 dead and 130,000 homeless,... MORE
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Uruguay Challenges Goliath Philip Morris
A long-burning row between the government in Montevideo and cigarette maker Philip Morris is slowly... MORE
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India’s Microfinance Blues
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Violence Rocks Rio as Brazilian Police Pacify Favelas
Keeping the peace in Rio de Janeiro has never been a job description for the faint-hearted.... MORE
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Brazil's Pension Problem
Brazilian President-elect Dilma Rousseff is starting off bold.... MORE
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In Brazil, ‘President’ Is Forever
Brazil being Brazil, a land where the next campaign begins the nanosecond the last one ends,... MORE
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Death of Kirchner Jolts Political and Economic Spheres in Argentina
With the sudden death of Néstor Kirchner, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner not only lost... MORE
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Brazil Campaigns Away
The contest to succeed Brazil’s mega-popular President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has taken a turn... MORE
