Ex-L.A. Times Correspondent to Head Up CNN Brazil Bureau

A long time ago, Shasta Darlington (pictured) graduated from Middlebury College and began her journalism career in Mexico City, writing for The News and the Los Angeles Times. Since then, she has worked for Bloomberg, Reuters and CNN.

As a correspondent for CNN in Havana, Darlington traveled a number of times to Brazil; the Latin American country was also her base from 1997 to 2001 for the above mentioned wire services. So it makes perfect sense that she will now be heading up CNN’s new bureau in São Paulo:

In Havana, Darlington filed stories in English and Spanish across a range of topics including Fidel Castro’s illness, his handover to his brother Raul Castro, and the first years of Raul’s succession.

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