Catherine Bremer

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Position: Senior Correspondent, Mexico & Central America

I help manage our Mexico and Central America file, mostly writing and editing political and general news, including the drug war, the Honduran coup, elections and swine flu. I've reported from several Latin American countries, was part of the 2008 Beijing Olympics reporting team, and was previously a correspondent in Paris and Brussels.

Articles

Los Angeles gets tough on medical marijuana shops November 21, 02:29am EST

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Past the security man and his pit bull and through a haze of eye-watering smoke, two youths load up a pipe next to a row of shiny glass jars with two dozen varieties of marijuana bud displayed like candy. Full Article

Canada money launderer shows holes in Vegas casinos

Screen siren Lauren Bacall gets lifetime Oscar

Balloon boy parents face sentence in December

Colorado parents to plead guilty in balloon hoax

Blog Posts

Hollywood's Golden Oscar moment, or one long bathroom break?

Oscar organizers are giving their show a makeover for 2009, doubling the number of Best Picture nominees to ten and relegating the honorary Governors Awards to a separate non-televised ceremony that took place Saturday night. Full Article | Comments [1]

Souvenir problem licked for Beijing athletes

Athletes at this year's Olympics are being offered the ultimate souvenir -- personalised Beijing 2008 postage stamps with their own faces on them. The stamps are guaranteed to bring a smile to relatives' ... Full Article | Comments [1]

Swifter, higher, stronger than me

Where else in the world could you spot a Bhutanese archer, a chunky weightlifter from a tiny South Pacific island and a freckled Ukrainian table-tennis champ within one enclosed space? Journalism takes ... Full Article