Matthew Clark
- Trip:
- Gatekeepers Peru 2009
- Affiliation during program:
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Country:
- Peru
- Year:
- 2009
- Email:
- [email protected]
Matthew Clark has been the Africa and Latin America editor for The Christian Science Monitor for the past four years. In this role, he manages one staff writer in Mexico City, one in Johannesburg, South Africa, and dozens of freelance writers across both continents. He has filed stories from a number of different countries including Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Congo, Chad, Liberia, Cuba, Jamaica, and Ecuador. Last year, he won an Overseas Press Club citation for the Robert Spiers Benjamin award for best coverage out of Latin America for a three-part series he co-wrote called, “Cuba: Winds of change.” Before his time on the international desk he worked as a news producer for the Monitor’s award-winning website. Prior to that, he worked for the Peace Corps in Washington and with The Carter Center’s Democracy Program in Atlanta.
Stories
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Kurt Holle’s ecolodge employs locals while slowing the devastation of the Amazon
Kurt Holle opened the Posada Amazonas ecolodge in 1996 and will turn over all operations to locals in 2016. photo: Matthew Clark/The Christian ...
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Peru farmers drop cocaine in favor of cocoa
Pinto Recodo, Peru — Deep in a valley where Peru's snow-capped Andes melt into Amazon jungle, Wilder Diaz Angulo cuts open a football-sized cocoa pod and separates precious ...
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Latin America’s surprise rising economic star: Peru
Lima, Peru - Often overlooked as a player in the global economy, Peru is determined to prove that it’s more than just llamas, bowler hats, and Macchu Picchu. And these days, ...
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Environment: In Peru’s Amazon, finding gold but leaving mercury
Puerto Maldonado, Peru - On a sweltering day in Peru’s Amazon, Riquelme loads a bag of rocks onto his back, sticks a plastic hose in his mouth, and steps off the back of a ...
Blog Posts RSS
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November 20, 2009 | by Matthew Clark
Would Peru lawmaker Keiko Fujimori free her jailed dad?
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