Fellows & Editors
Matthew Clark
- Trip:
- Peru 2009
- Affiliation:
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Country:
- Peru
- Year:
- 2009
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 Science Monitor Tambopata National Reserve, Peru "” For someone who's changing...
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Peru farmers drop cocaine in favor of cocoa
Matthew Clark Wilder Diaz Angulo shows a cocoa pod on his farm in Pinto Recodo, Peru. Better specimens, he says, become high-end organic chocolate marketed in Europe and the US. Pinto Recodo,...
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Latin America’s surprise rising economic star: Peru
Matthew Clark/The Christian Science Monitor Price of progress: Construction of a highway from the capital, Lima, to Brazil nears completion. Lima, Peru - Often overlooked as a player in the global...
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Environment: In Peru’s Amazon, finding gold but leaving mercury
Matthew Clark/The Christian Science Monitor Prospector: Illegal gold miner Riquelme dives along the river bottom. A rush for Peru's resources has led to environmental woes. Puerto Maldonado, Peru - On a...
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November 20, 2009 | by Clark, Matthew
Would Peru lawmaker Keiko Fujimori free her jailed dad?
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