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With Brazil preparing to host the Olympic Games in 2016 (not to mention the FIFA World Cup in 2014), it seemed about time that Global Atlanta visit the largest Latin...

Our trip to Brussels in January with Margaret Sherman, an assistant professor of legal studies at Georgia State University, and her student, Kelsey Scantland, was encouraged by then-Belgian Consul General...

Haiti has the ignominious reputation of being the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Government officials believe this distinction short-changes their homeland, which they say boasts opportunity beneath the rubble,...

In the age of the Internet, it’s easy to report on the world from afar, to rely on the lenses of others to provide glimpses of faraway lands.  But in...

Some people call Africa the last frontier in the global economy, with its 1 billion consumers, vast swaths of arable land and abundant natural resources.  But the continent often spoken...

Delta Air Lines no longer has a nonstop flight to Mumbai, but Atlantans can reach India through Amsterdam, thanks to the airline’s joint venture with Air France–KLM.  On the way...

One trend for 2012 was a slowdown among the BRICs, developing economies that demand the world’s attention in the coming century.  Still, there’s no denying that their impact on Atlanta...