Erik German

GlobalPost

Erik German is one of GlobalPost’s senior correspondents in Brazil, based in Rio de Janeiro.

He has also reported from North Africa and South Asia for GlobalPost. Before signing on with GlobalPost, German spent four years as a staff writer for the New York newspaper Newsday, reporting on local, state and national politics. He was assigned to the Albany statehouse during the resignation of Gov. Eliot Spitzer and covered Hillary Clinton during the 2008 presidential primary.

Working alongside his wife and fellow correspondent Solana Pyne, he wrote a series of stories on the economic collapse of Zimbabwe in 2006 and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

German lived in Prague and wrote for the Prague Post, covering news and politics, as well as the riots during the IMF/World Bank meetings in September 2000.

He has a master’s degree in Journalism from Columbia University. Before becoming a journalist, he was employed variously as a bartender, construction laborer and high school teacher. He studied at the Sorbonne in Paris as an exchange student and graduated from Yale with a philosophy degree, about which he has no illusions.

Brazil mulls lifting Amazon protections

Brazilian Congress debates, then tables, changes to forest code requiring land owners to perserve 80 percent of holdings as forest

Brazil mulls lifting Amazon protections
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Brazil to lease farmland to foreigners

Brazil to lease farmland to foreigners
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Inflation worries in Brazil

Inflation worries in Brazil
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Sean Goldman father publishes book

Sean Goldman father publishes book

Thousands homeless after Brazil floods

Thousands homeless after Brazil floods

Doubts on privatizing Brazil airports

Report: Brazil bureaucracy has investors wary about buying in to airports

Doubts on privatizing Brazil airports

World’s oldest woman alive in Brazil

The woman who just turned 116 was a smoker until age 110

World’s oldest woman alive in Brazil
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Rio witness protection program is broke

Four months without funding for program that hides witnesses from Rio de Janeiro's most dangerous criminals

Rio witness protection program is broke
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Royal wedding knockoffs in Brazil

Fake versions of Kate Middleton’s ring on sale in Sao Paulo

Royal wedding knockoffs in Brazil

Brazil: world’s richest man?

Mining billionaire Eike Batista says he expects to become the wealthiest man on earth

Brazil: world’s richest man?

Subdued reaction in Latin America to bin Laden news

In Brazil, a soccer match was bigger news than Osama bin Laden's death.

Subdued reaction in Latin America to bin Laden news
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Brazil president has pneumonia

Dilma Rousseff's illness makes her a no-show at World Economic Forum in Rio de Janeiro

Brazil president has pneumonia
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Foreign-made guns in Brazil slum raid

Report: 70 percent of weapons seized during 2010 Rio slum were imported.

Foreign-made guns in Brazil slum raid

Vale buys stake in Amazon dam

Brazilian mining giant buys 9 percent of Belo Monte dam. Some say the company's caving to government pressure.

Vale buys stake in Amazon dam
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Brazilian fighter film takes prize

Tribeca Film Festival honors documentary about Brazilian MMA fighter Anderson Silva.

Brazilian fighter film takes prize