With:
Moderator: Thomas Trebat, Executive Director of the Center for Brazilian Studies and The Institute for Latin American Studies
Norman Gall, founder and editor, Braudel Papers. Norman Gall has been reporting on the Americas for half a century. He covered the devastation of the Amazon in the 1970s, the vulnerabilities of Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party regime in the 1980s and, more recently, the institutional weaknesses revealed in Brazil by a major corruption scandal that shook President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s government in 2005. In the last decade, Gall has bridged the worlds of journalism and scholarship as the founder and creator of the São Paulo-based Fernand Braudel Instituto de Economia Mundial, where he writes and publishes in-depth reports in English, Portuguese and Spanish.
Tyler Bridges, freelancer. Tyler Bridges is one of the foremost reporters and interpreters of Latin America for readers in the United States. Reflecting his commitment to the region, Bridges remained in Lima with his family to continue covering his beat as a freelancer after the The Miami Herald yielded to budget pressures and eliminated his full-time position. He has served as a prize-winning reporter for the The Times-Picayune of New Orleans, a member of two Pulitzer Prize winning teams at The Miami Herald and continues to serve as a Latin American correspondent for The Herald and McClatchy Newspapers.
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