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Carrie Kahn is NPR's International Correspondent based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Kahn's reports can be heard on NPR's award-winning news programs including All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Weekend Edition, and on NPR.org.

Previously, she spent a decade based in Mexico City, Mexico, covering Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America. She arrived in Mexico in the summer of 2012, on the eve of the election of President Enrique Peña Nieto and the PRI party's return to power, and reported on everything from the rise in violence throughout the country to its powerful drug cartels, and the arrest, escape and re-arrest of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. She reported on the Trump Administration's immigration policies and their effects on Mexico and Central America, the increasing international migration through the hemisphere, gang violence in Central America and the historic détente between the Obama Administration and Cuba.

Kahn has brought moving, personal stories to the forefront of NPR's coverage of the region. Some of her most notable coverage includes the stories of a Mexican man who was kidnapped and forced to dig a cross-border tunnel from Tijuana into San Diego, a Guatemalan family torn apart by President Trump's family separation policies and a Haitian family's situation immediately following the 2010 earthquake and on the ten-year anniversary of the disaster.

Prior to her post in Mexico, Kahn was a National Correspondent based in Los Angeles. She was the first NPR reporter into Haiti after the devastating earthquake in early 2010, and returned to the country on numerous occasions to continue NPR's coverage of the Caribbean nation. In 2005, Kahn was part of NPR's extensive coverage of Hurricane Katrina, where she investigated claims of euthanasia in New Orleans hospitals, recovery efforts along the Gulf Coast and resettlement of city residents in Houston, Texas.

She has covered hurricanes, the controversial life and death of pop icon Michael Jackson and firestorms and mudslides in Southern California,. In 2008, as China hosted the world's athletes, Kahn recorded a remembrance of her Jewish grandfather and his decision to compete in Hitler's 1936 Olympics.

Before coming to NPR in 2003, Kahn worked for NPR Member stations KQED and KPBS in California, with reporting focused on immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border.

Kahn is a recipient of the 2020 Cabot Prize from Columbia Journalism School, which honors distinguished reporting on Latin America and the Caribbean. In 2010 she was awarded the Headliner Award for Best in Show and Best Investigative Story for her work covering U.S. informants involved in the Mexican Drug War. Kahn's work has been cited for fairness and balance by the Poynter Institute of Media Studies. She was awarded and completed a Pew Fellowship in International Journalism at Johns Hopkins University.

Kahn received a bachelor's degree in biology from UC Santa Cruz. For several years, she was a human genetics researcher in California and in Costa Rica. She has traveled extensively throughout Mexico, Central America, Europe and the Middle East, where she worked on an English/Hebrew/Arabic magazine.

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Monday

What to know about Argentina's eccentric, conservative new president-elect

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Radical libertarian populist Javier Milei was elected president of Argentina

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Sunday

Javier Milei of La Libertad Avanza speaks to supporters during his closing rally at Movistar Arena on Oct. 18 in Buenos Aires. Tomas Cuesta/Getty Images hide caption

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Saturday

Voters in Argentina will select a new president

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Against a backdrop of an Argentine flag, supporters of presidential candidate for La Libertad Avanza Alliance, Javier Milei, record with their mobile phones as he speaks during a campaign appearance. Luis Robayo/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Friday

Two voters in Argentina share what they're looking at for the upcoming elections

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Voters in Argentina face one of the most consequential elections in recent memory

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Wednesday

Brazil's new leftist government attempts to crack down on illegal gold mining

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Wednesday

Palestinians conduct a search and rescue operation after the second bombardment by the Israeli army in the last 24 hours at Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza City, Gaza, on Wednesday. Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images hide caption

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Monday

Voters in Argentina back its ruling party's candidate in presidential elections

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Amid triple-digit inflation, Argentina's presidential election heads to a runoff

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Monday

Heir to banana fortune, Daniel Noboa, wins Ecuador's presidential runoff election

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Saturday

2 candidates vie for Ecuador presidency in face of historic violence and migration

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Friday

The gang and cartel violence that Ecuador's citizens live with

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Wednesday

Most of the 177 environmental activists killed last year were in Latin America

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Monday

50 years after the U.S.-backed coup toppled Chile's government, victims await justice

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Decades after Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile, the fight for justice continues

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Wednesday

Police officers check a house as residents wade through a flooded street after floods caused by a cyclone in Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, Monday. Diogo Zanatta/Futura Press/AP hide caption

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Thursday

A view of the images portraying victims of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship projected onto the La Moneda Presidential Palace to mark the commemoration of the International Day of the Disappeared in Santiago, Chile, on Wednesday. Lucas Aguayo Araos/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images hide caption

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Friday

High stakes elections lie ahead in Guatemala, Ecuador and Argentina

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Ecuador will elect a president — 2 weeks after candidate was assassinated

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Tuesday

Argentina braces for more economic upheaval after a major political shakeup

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Monday

Aerial view showing a fire at the Chapada Diamantina region, between the cities of Andarai and Mucuge, in Bahia state, northeastern Brazil, on October 7, 2020. - Chapada Diamantina National Park preserves areas of three Brazilian biomes: Mata Atlantica, Cerrado and Caatinga among its 152,000 hectares. MATEUS MORBECK/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Brazil's president will try to rally more support to save rainforest at Amazon Summit

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Saturday

Brazil's Marta has scored more World Cup goals than anyone. Now she hopes to win

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