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Marina Jimenez de la Flor has been a journalist for 20 years and has worked for the Vancouver Sun, the National Post and the Canadian Broadcasting Company before joining the Globe and Mail in 2002. She has specialized in immigration issues, and in Latin America, and has covered stories in Haiti, Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Panama, Colombia, and Venezuela and other countries. Last year, she travelled to Mexico to write about President Felipe Calderon's war on drugs, and also interviewed him recently during his trip to Toronto. She currently sits as a member of the Globe and Mail's editorial board, where she writes about foreign affairs and other issues. She has also served as a moderator, panelist and contributor to more than a dozen international conferences on immigration, and on Latin America. She is the recipient of three National Newspaper Award nominations, and one NNA in beat reporting, as well as two National Magazine Awards (gold). She has a Masters degree in economic history from the University of London, and in 2009-2010 was a journalism fellow at the University of Toronto's Massey College. She teaches a course on immigration reporting at the University of Toronto's School of Media Studies.