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Lorne Matalon

ReporterLorne Matalon has been reporting from Mexico for "The World" since November 2007. He has covered the Mexican ‘war on drugs’ from the frontlines, going on patrol with the Mexican armed forces, and pursued immigration and economic stories throughout the country. Lorne's beat has also stretched further south into Venezuela and Panama.Previously Lorne worked at NPR Member Stations WUNC and WBUR, filing from Haiti, Panama and Mongolia.Lorne is a contributor to National Geographic’s Ethnosphere Project and a Fellow at the Explorers Club of New York.
Global Politics
Guatemala syphilis study still provokes anger
Lifestyle & Belief
Mexican school for midwives
Arts, Culture & Media
US visa laws lightened for Cuban artists
The Cienega de Santa Clara wetland, in Sonora province in northwestern Mexico, is fed by runoff from U.S. farms irrigated with water from the Colorado River.
Environment
At the end of the Colorado, a new rift opens over the river’s last drops
Global Politics
Saving a river along the US-Mexico border
Arts, Culture & Media
Mexican Mennonites
Global Politics
Mid-term elections in Mexico
Conflict & Justice
Mexico’s mix of politics and drugs
Global Politics
Mexico before the election
Global Politics
Collateral damage in Mexico’s drug war
Global Politics
Mexico challenges calls to Buy American
Global Politics
Drug cartels and corruption in Mexico
Global Politics
President Obama’s pick for Mexico ambassador
Conflict & Justice
Mexico’s drug cartels still in action
Business, Economics and Jobs
Mexico ponders auto bailout
Global Politics
Reigning in the credit card industry
Health & Medicine
Recovering from swine flu
Business, Economics and Jobs
Mexico’s economy suffers from swine flu
Global Politics
Flu politics in Mexico
Health & Medicine
How Mexico is coping with swine flu
Health & Medicine
A doctor’s day in Mexico City
Health & Medicine
Swine flu concern grows
Global Politics
Drastic measures in Mexico City
Global Politics
NAFTA stays as is
Global Politics
Mexico visit previews weekend summit
Mexican cartels going south
Global Politics
President Obama to meet Mexico’s president
Arts, Culture & Media
Danger for Mexican journalists
Global Politics
US and Mexico argue over trade
Global Politics
U.S. and Mexico unite to fight guns and drugs
Global Politics
Clinton’s message in Mexico
Global Politics
Violence at the US-Mexico border
Business, Economics and Jobs
The business of security on Mexico’s roads
Conflict & Justice
Drug violence close to US border
Lifestyle & Belief
Buddhism in Mexico
Global Politics
Mexico’s president blames the U.S.
Business, Economics and Jobs
Mexico’s mortgage solution
Lifestyle & Belief
Saint of Death draws followers in Mexico
Conflict & Justice
Questioning Mexico’s anti-drug strategy
Conflict & Justice
Mexicans demand better security
Global Politics
Mexico rethinks death penalty
Environment
Mexico City dries up
Global Politics
Mexico’s former ruling party in a comeback
Conflict & Justice
Tourists experience illegal crossing
Conflict & Justice
Kidnapping on the rise in Mexico
Business, Economics and Jobs
Mexican exports down
Global Politics
Mexico’s choice for US president
Conflict & Justice
Mexico’s drug war
Business, Economics and Jobs
Mexico’s oil problem
Conflict & Justice
Mexicans sending less money home
Global Politics
Venezuela’s election controversy
Global Politics
Venezuela’s poor lose out on oil wealth
Global Politics
Venezuelan leader wants better U.S. relations
Global Politics
Politics divide Venezuelan students
Global Politics
How Venezuela weathers rising food prices
Conflict & Justice
Fighting Mexican drug cartels
Mexico battles drug traffickers
Conflict & Justice
Border controls hurt Mexican factories
Business, Economics and Jobs
Mexican trucking report
Conflict & Justice
US – Mexico border violence