Shasta Darlington

Shasta Darlington is an international correspondent for CNN based in Sao Paulo. Darlington opened CNN's Brazil bureau in 2011 and has since covered the 2014 World Cup and the massive protests leading up to the global sporting event. Before joining CNN as a field producer in 2006, Darlington worked as a correspondent for Reuters in Italy for four years. From 1997-2001, Darlington worked as a correspondent for Bloomberg and then Reuters in Brazil, where she covered the devastating economic crisis, drug wars, and prison riots. Before moving to Brazil, she worked for the Los Angeles Times in Mexico City, Mexico. She holds Bachelors of Arts in English literature and Spanish from Middlebury College.