The Washington Post is featuring articles about Latin America by the 2009 class of Woodrow Wilson Center-Washington Post Fellows. The program brings professional journalists from Latin America to Washington for a three-week exchange of dialogue and professional development.
Now in its second year, the Woodrow Wilson Center-Washington Post Journalism Fellowship for Latin American Journalists provides an opportunity to conduct three weeks of reporting concerning hemispheric relations on an issue of importance to journalists' home countries. The fellowship works as an immersion program in the political culture of the U.S. capital. This year, five journalists from the region had the unique opportunity to develop sources of information, enter into direct contact with public and private institutions, and experience first-hand how Washington operates.
The fellows were selected from a pool of more the 55 candidates. During their three weeks in Washington, journalists from Brazil, Colombia, Jamaica, Mexico, and Venezuela conducted reporting on an issue of importance to their home countries and to the United States. They also attended seminars at The Post and the Wilson Center.
The program sought to provide opportunities for professional development and to encourage dialogue between journalists from Latin America and the United States.
Read the articles
Treatment vs. incarceration: U.S. officials debate handling of drug offenses
By Ana Francisca Vega, El Economista
Far from their island, Jamaican children struggle with new expectations
By Ingrid Brown, Jamaica Observer
Despite the expense and the danger, deportees slip back in again and again
By Ingrid Brown, Jamaica Observer
Stigma at home, fear of deportation haunt Jamaican illegal immigrants with HIV/AIDS
By Ingrid Brown, Jamaica Observer
More than money, failures of U.S. schools require new strategies
By Demetrio Weber, O Globo
Extradited Colombian death-squad leaders leave valuable information behind
By Diana Carolina Durán Núñez, El Espectador
Ambassador contemplates a 'new moment' for Venezuela-U.S. relations
By Andrea Daza Tapia, El Mundo Economía y Negocios
Expensive lobbying efforts seek to rehabilitate Venezuela's image
By Andrea Daza Tapia, El Mundo Economía y Negocios
The art of lobbying -- and disappearing -- from a jail cell
By Andrea Daza Tapia, El Mundo Economía y Negocios
With oil, security and Chávez in the mix, the relationship challenge continues
By Andrea Daza Tapia, El Mundo Economía y Negocios
The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action. Read more
