View a slideshow of my Istanbul whirlwind adventure.

Traveling again…this time it’s the Euro-Asian cosmopolitan contradiction of Istanbul, Turkey.  My first trip to either continent and already the sights and sounds are a mix of the old and the new, the developing and the developed; walking side by …

An article on Syracuse refugees’ impact on the local economy is in the works. Keep an eye out for the Post-Standard at the end of February.

Check out some photos from the trip

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We’ve arrived safely back in the States after two weeks in South Africa. We shot thousands of photos, hundreds of hours of video, and nearly blew up our computers using ramshackle adaptors…but despite the sleepless nights and looming deadlines, we …

The World Cup, wine, apartheid and Cape Town: all of the famous nouns associated with my next destination, which is NOT South America, but South AFRICA. I’m still winging my way to the southern hemisphere (this time it will be …

WikiLeaks, an organization dedicated to uncovering classified government documents, released 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables to select news organizations in the U.S. and Europe, one of them being the New York Times.  The New York Times agreed to begin publishing …

Syracuse has over 1,500 vacant houses just waiting for demolition.

For the past week, I’ve been discovering exactly what is going to happen to each of them.

Over the past week and a half, I’ve managed to maneuver my way …

Students gather in Plaza Italia to protest

1,000 Santiago high school students gathered to peacefully protest public transportation fees for students.

(4 August 2010) At 9:50 a.m., over 200 students marched, waving banners and beating drums, toward downtown Santiago in …

General Augusto Pinochet was the Commander-in-Chief of the Army from 1973-1998, and “President” of Chile from 1973-1990. He was one of only two Army commanders in the nation’s history to hold both titles simultaneously, and the only one to have …

I had the opportunity to interview the director of the brand-new Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, a project pioneered by Michelle Bachelet and her administration.

Romy Schmidt, Museum director and politician

The museum opened in January 2010, …

“Pinochet’s arrest and court judgement was all a lie…Everything they say is leftist propaganda and it’s accepted as the true version of Chilean history today.”

Published in La Nación, 2009

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