Marina Lopes

São Paulo, Brazil

Reporter based in Brazil

Education: Boston College, BA in International Relations; Columbia University, MS in Journalism

Marina Lopes was a reporter based in Brazil for The Washington Post. Before joining the paper, she reported for Reuters in Mozambique, New York and Washington. She left The Post in June 2020.
Latest from Marina Lopes

Supply chain woes boost meat substitutes in Asia, and investors are biting

The pandemic and the war in Ukraine upended global meat supply, spurring interest in products like plant-based protein that save on costs and time.

October 5, 2022
Cultivated meat products from Eat Just, a food technology company that is opening a major production facility in Singapore.

Gun fails inches from Argentine vice president’s face in shooting attempt

Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, a former president and first lady, was unharmed in the incident, which was caught on video.

September 2, 2022

Police shooting of unarmed Black man in bed renews anguish in Ohio

Donovan Lewis, 20, was killed, police and city officials said, and an investigation is underway.

September 1, 2022
A video still of body camera footage shows officers and a police dog moments before officers opened a bedroom door and fatally shot Donovan Lewis, 20, in Columbus, Ohio. (Provided by the Columbus Division of Police)

Singapore bars its only Olympic champ from competing after cannabis use

Joseph Schooling, who beat Michael Phelps to win gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics, is likely to be out of the running for the 2023 Southeast Asian Games.

August 31, 2022
Singapore's Joseph Schooling at the World Swimming Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, in 2019.

Brazil’s ‘man of the hole’ dies, and an Amazonian tribe is no more

The Indigenous man had lived alone for at least 26 years and repeatedly rejected attempts at communication.

August 30, 2022
Brazil's “man of the hole” in the forest, in an image from a video released by Brazil’s national agency for the Indigenous in 2018.

DeSantis removes elected education officials after Parkland safety report

The Florida governor's suspension of the officials was praised by the families of victims of school violence, but it also sparked accusations of overreach.

August 29, 2022
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to supporters on Aug. 24.

T-Mobile partners with SpaceX in effort to end cellphone dead zones

SpaceX founder Elon Musk and T-Mobile chief executive Mike Sievert announced the Starlink satellites partnership on Thursday.

August 25, 2022

Spain allows man to be euthanized ahead of trial for attempted murder

Marin Eugen Sabau, 46, who was left partially paralyzed in a police shootout after an attack on his former workplace, asked to die via assisted suicide.

August 25, 2022

Qatar deports migrant workers protesting alleged abuse before World Cup

Qatar said it detained the migrant workers, who allege they have not been paid by their employer, for breaching public security laws.

August 23, 2022
Lusail Stadium in Qatar, which has relied heavily on foreign labor to build venues for this year's FIFA World Cup.

European drought unearths sunken Nazi warships, ‘Spanish Stonehenge’

Archaeologists are rushing to study some of the surfaced relics amid the worst drought that Europe has seen in centuries.

August 20, 2022
Low water levels have revealed the wreckage of Nazi warships in the Serbian section of the Danube River.