The Amazon Rainforest’s Recent Fires Call for Global Action
Ingrid Moises and Stephanie Andrade
August 31, 2019
The Amazon rainforest is a tropical rainforest that covers 5.5 million square kilometers of the Amazon basin of South America. Often referred to as "the planet’s lungs", the Amazonia is responsible for producing roughly 20 percent of the oxygen in the atmosphere. Natural fires in the Amazon rai...
Bye-Bye Brazil: The Far Right Wins
Daniela Parra Del Riego, Staff Writer
November 5, 2018
Brazil can be considered one of the major powers in Latin America; as home to the majority of the Amazon Rainforest, Brazil also has the largest GDP in the region. Despite its thriving economy, Brazil has high crime rates and corruption, with the impoverished favelas in the cities taking up a large percen...
Recap: May 9 – 15
Sophie Feinberg, Editor
May 15, 2016
International Affairs Brazil crisis: Rousseff impeachment process 'back on track' "An impeachment process against Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff appears to be back on track after the acting speaker of the lower house revoked his surprise decision to suspend a crucial vote. Speaker Waldir ...
Sunny in Miami
Annie Farrell, Editor
October 18, 2014
Sunny Na, a sophomore pre-International Baccalaureate (IB) student, is no stranger to change. On the contrary, she's all too familiar with it. Lately Na calls Miami home, but in the past she has given this name to cities in Korea, Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil. Na became a member of the Coral Gables...
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Spotlights Editor
Jesse Zambrano is a senior in the International Baccalaureate (IB) program. When she arrived to the US, it was clear to Zambrano how important it was to...
