Brazil upheel, river pirates in the amazon rain forest and antarctica and the New York Times bureau chief until 2011 based in venezuela where he covered issues including president hugo chavezs political movement, columbias long internal war and indigenous politics in bolivia. Please give a warm welcome to mr. Simone romero. Sara, thank you so much for the very kind introduction, and im just going to move on right now and introduce this wonderful panel that i have the pleasure of moderating. We have cecilia balli, who is a journalist and cultural anthropologist and a writer at large at texas monthly. Her work focuses on the u. S. mexico border and the history and culture of south texas. And her writing has also appeared in har bers magazine, and the New York Times. Angela cocherga is a multimedia journalist who has covered the u. S. mexico border and mexicos interior for television newspapers and radio and was mexico border chief for a major broadcasting group. She is currently the Sout
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