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Karen Lowe
Marketplace Foreign Editor, Los Angeles
Karen Lowe became Marketplace's foreign editor in 1999. Before coming to Marketplace, she worked for Agence France-Presse for more than a decade, both in Washington as an editor and a reporter covering Asian affairs, and in Los Angeles where she covered the western United States. Prior to AFP, she spent seven years working in Latin America for a variety of publications. Her work has appeared in Time Magazine, the Miami Herald, the Baltimore Sun and the Boston Globe. She covered the final years of military president Joao Baptista Figuereido and the tumultuous rise of the labor movement in Brazil; the Haitain refugee crisis in Puerto Rico and Cuba; the US invasion of Grenada, Chile's referendum ending Pinochet's rule, and Hurricane Mitch in Honduras.
