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Catherine OsbornCO

Catherine Osborn

The World
Catherine Osborn is a print and radio journalist based in Rio de Janeiro. She has reported and produced for The World and National Public Radio, and her writing has appeared on the sites Next City and Culinary Backstreets. Catherine is a native of Austin, Texas, where she was raised without a television and spent lots of time listening to NPR member station KUT, eventually interning in their newsroom. She has a degree in Latin American Studies from Yale. 
Carnival
Rio’s Carnival floats put drama and comedy in motion
A nurse hands out a red ribbon to a woman, to mark World AIDS Day, at the entrance of Emilio Ribas Hospital, in Sao Paulo December 1, 2014.
Health & Medicine
Brazil reduces sex education amid spike in sexually transmitted infections
Argentina's presidential candidate Alberto Fernández and his running mate former President Cristina Kirchner embrace each other during a closing campaign rally in Mar del Plata, Argentina, Oct. 24, 2019.
Economic crisis unites Argentina’s fractured Peronist movement
Bolsonaro smiles and puts his hand out
Global Politics
Brazil’s Bolsonaro heads to White House amid scandals at home
a closeup of someone holding a handgun
Security reformers in Bolsonaro’s Brazil look to America’s pro-gun campaigners
a closeup of farofa
Food
The Brazilian Christmas dinner is incomplete without this dish
two cars flash their lights on a sign held by anti-Bolsonaro protesters
Global Politics
Social divisions linger after Brazil’s elections
A woman holds up a green sign with white letters that says "Women for Bolsonaro"
Global Politics
Angry at status quo, Brazil’s voters open a door for the far right
Brazil's President Michel Temer with "FAKE" spelled out behind his head
Global Politics
Brazil fights online misinformation during election season
Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attends a meeting with members of the Workers Party that decided Lula da Silva will be its candidate again in the 2018 election, despite losing an appeal against a corruption conviction that will likely
Global Politics
Lula’s limbo between prison and presidency looms over 2018 Brazil race
Dancers at the weekly Saturday night charme dance in Madureira
Culture
Hip-hop met Rio de Janeiro and never stepped back
A Brazilian navy soldier patrols Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 30, 2017
Conflict
A year after the Rio Olympics, gunfights continue and troops patrol the streets
Rio
Conflict
Residents of a crisis-ridden Rio caution future Olympic hosts
Brazil's President Michel Temer
Global Politics
As Brazil’s president races to change labor laws, investigators circle
A demonstrator confronts riot police during a protest against Brazil's President Michel Temer in front of the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, on May 18.
Global Politics
Brazil will not be outdone by Washington’s chaos
Bolivian, Colombian, Venezuelan and Peruvian immigrants participate in a team-building activity before their community organizing training at CAMI.
Economics
How a whisper can help fight labor trafficking in Brazil
Pyrotechnics at the Resistência Funk da Antiga show held in Brás de Pina, in Rio de Janeiro's North Zone, last month.
Music
There’s an official funk song for the Olympics. But funk artists in Rio say they face persecution.
Policemen take positions during a shooting with suspected drug gangs on Linha Amarela highway near the Maré favela complex in Rio de Janeiro on Feb. 23, 2015.
Conflict
Amnesty’s new app for Rio shootings was flooded with reports on day one
Protesters in Rio
Global Politics
In Brazil, a youth movement wants the economy to open up
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Global Politics
Brazil’s ‘House of Cards’ continues as ex-president Lula is detained in anti-corruption probe
Gleide Guimarães
Environment
The bigger problems behind Brazil’s recent disease outbreaks
Isabel Swan
Environment
Olympic sailor Isabel Swan wants a clean bay in Brazil for the Olympics
Elaine Marques, 29 (center left) smiles at Germana Soares, 24, at a group birthday party for babies born with microcephaly in Recife, Brazil.
Health
How Brazil’s favorite app is helping doctors and parents cope with microcephaly
A worker puts the final touches on a carnival mask bearing the likeness of federal police agent Newton Ishii, at a costume factory in the suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, January 11, 2016.
Culture
Brazilian Carnival floats this year included David Bowie, Yoda and this famous police officer
A health worker stands in the Sambadrome as he sprays insecticide to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that transmit the Zika virus, in Rio de Janeiro. Inspectors are spraying the insecticide around the Sambadrome, the outdoor grounds where thousands of
Health
The Zika virus has Brazil fumigating the Sambadrome in advance of Carnival
March against house speaker Eduardo Cunha's abortion bill on International Day to End Violence Against Women in Rio de Janeiro
Justice
A mother’s fight for abortion rights in evangelical Brazil
Residents observe as policemen take up position near an area where two men were found dead on top of the Sao Carlos slums complex in Rio de Janeiro May 15, 2015.
Justice
Rio de Janeiro’s pacification program slips back to tactics from its bloody ‘War on Drugs’
Biologist Mario Moscatelli along the shores of Guanabara Bay in Rio
Environment
This ‘Star Wars rebel’ biologist isn’t giving up on cleaning Rio’s polluted bay
Activists put banner on pedestrian bridge in Rio
Justice
Brazil’s new idea to fight crime: Sentence teens to adult jails
Protesters march through São Paulo recently demanding equitable distribution of water throughout São Paulo state. Unofficial rationing has brought frequent water outages to neighborhoods throughout the Brazilian megalopolis of 20 million people.
Environment
São Paulo residents demand their city take a new attitude about water
A worker fills a water tanker for distribution to a hospital in São Paulo in February. Residents throughout the metropolitan region of 20 million people are taking emergency measures amid a severe drought.
Environment
South America’s largest city is almost out of water
Jack Andrade of Rio de Janeiro parades by a panel of judges for Miss Black Power Brazil. Judges included writers, designers, a university professor, and a model, who evaluated the candidates according to “diverse criteria, including political responsibili
Culture
Black Brazilian women are building up their power — and they’re even showing it with their hairstyle
Presidential candidate Marina Silva is introduced at a recent rally in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Global Politics
The honeymoon may be over for Brazilian presidential candidate Marina Silva
The final of the People's Tournament held in the Rio favela called Morro do Pinto
Sports
Among Brazilians, there’s not that much excitement about the World Cup
An anti-World Cup "Roman" takes a breather after hours of singing and dancing at a Rio carnival party.
Global Politics
At Rio’s carnival, as long as you’re dancing, why not make it a protest
An anti-World Cup "Roman" takes a breather after hours of singing and dancing at a Rio carnival party.
Global Politics
At Rio’s carnival, as long as you’re dancing, why not make it a protest
Conflict & Justice
As Protests Continue in Brazil, One Student Leader Explains What’s Going On