Patrick Oster is an award-winning journalist who has covered the White House, the

State Department and the CIA. He has been a foreign correspondent in Latin America

and Europe, covering the fall of the Berlin Wall and the creation of the European Union.

A lawyer, he is currently the managing editor for legal news for Bloomberg News. He is

the author of “The Mexicans: A Personal Portrait of a People.” More details about him

can be found at www.patrickoster.com.