Fellows & Editors
Whitney Eulich
- Trip:
- Brazil 2014
- Affiliation:
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Country:
- Brazil
- Year:
- 2014
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Whitney Eulich is The Christian Science Monitor's Latin America editor, overseeing regional coverage for CSMonitor.com and the weekly magazine. She has reported nationally and internationally, and holds a master's in international affairs from Columbia University. Prior to joining The Monitor in 2011, Whitney was a freelance radio producer.
Stories
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In Latin America, New Urgency to Educate Stirs Up Outdated System
At the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz high school in rural Puebla State, some classrooms are so cramped that students take their exams out on the front lawn. That...
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Taking ‘Manic Mondays’ to a New Level: A Day in the Life of a Rio Public School Teacher
{image-1} A teacher poses with a blackboard reading 'Brazil School' as children sitting in front of desks with signs reading 'FIFA standard schools' hold official 2014 FIFA World Cup soccer balls, as they...
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Brazil’s Long-Impoverished Northeast Rides Into the Middle Class
Surviving as a farmer in the semi-arid northeast of Brazil has never been easy – drought is perennial, poverty is highly concentrated, and for decades the region was known best known for...
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From Gunfights to ‘Mansions’: Inside Rio de Janeiro’s Smorgasbord of Favelas
Just 50 days before Brazil hosts the World Cup, authorities beefed up security Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro after a violent clash between residents and police in a slum near the tourist haven...
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With Brazil’s Petrobras Under Fire for Corruption, Have Brazilians Had Enough?
Brazil's leading Worker's Party is under intense scrutiny this week amid Senate hearings and mounting allegations of corruption at Petrobras, the state-run oil company. This is the second high-profile corruption...
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Foreign Doctors Help Poor Brazilians Get a Leg Up
Just three months ago, the public clinic near Maria Selma Dos Santos’s home didn’t have a single doctor on staff. Prior to that, she could schedule an appointment...
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Trading Wellness Tips, Brazil’s Community Workers Plug Primary Health Gaps
Marcia Cristina Bonfante and Adriana Siqueira Lima live in the same neighborhood in western São Paulo and have daughters around the same age. But when Ms. Bonfante drops by her...
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