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Ruxandra Guidi currently works as a radio and print freelance news correspondent for South and Central America. In the last year, she's been reporting from Bolivia, Peru, Panama, Venezuela and Mexico.

For the first few months of 2008, she'll be working on a series of pieces for print, radio and television about the lives of coca producers in Los Yungas, Bolivia, and about controversial coca policy under president Evo Morales.

Previously, she did production and reporting work for the BBC public radio news program, The World. Her stories focused on Latin American politics, human rights issues, immigration, popular culture and music. She filed reports from Miami, FL, Austin, TX, the US-Mexico border, Mexico, Honduras and Turkey.

After earning a Master's degree in journalism from U.C. Berkeley in 2002, she worked for independent radio producers The Kitchen Sisters. In 2003, she moved to Austin, TX, where she did production and reporting work for NPR's weekly show, Latino USA.

Ruxandra has also freelanced for the BBC World Service in Spanish, World Vision Report, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Dispatches and Marketplace radio programs, and has collaborated in the production of the radio documentary "Los Homies: Gangs in Central America", by NPR reporter, Mandalit del Barco.

A native of Caracas, Venezuela, Ruxandra is now based in La Paz, where she lives and collaborates regularly with her husband, photographer Bear Guerra.