Don Bohning retired at the end of 2000 from the Miami Herald, where he had been Latin America editor. He joined the Herald in July 1959 after graduating with a degree in foreign trade from the American Institute of Foreign Trade (Thunderbird) in Glendale, Arizona, which later became the Graduate School for International Management. After joining the Herald, he was first assigned to its Hollywood, Florida, bureau. He became a member of the Herald's Latin America staff in 1964. His coverage responsibilities included the Cuban exile community in Miami. He was named Latin America editor in 1967, a position he held until he retired.
In the course of nearly thirty-seven years as a foreign correspondent and editor for the Herald, he visited every independent country in the Western Hemisphere, reporting on such events as the 1973 Pinochet coup in Chile; the 1973 Juan Peron funeral in Argentina; the 1972 Managua, Nicaragua, earthquake; the 1978 Jonestown Massacre in Guyana; the 1986 fall of the Duvalier dynasty in Haiti; the 1983 invasion of Grenada; the 1989 invasion of Panama; negotiation, ratification, and implementation of the Panama Canal treaties; the Jamaica turmoil of the 1970s; the 1979 Non-Aligned Summit in Havana; and the 1969 Rockefeller Mission to Latin America. He also covered the 1976 Republican and Democratic National Conventions as part of the Knight-Ridder Newspapers reporting and editing team. He has won numerous journalistic awards, among them from the Inter-American Press Association, the Overseas Press Club, Columbia University’s Maria Moors Cabot Prize, and the first Knight-Ridder Newspapers Excellence Award for news reporting.
A native of South Dakota, Bohning attended Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell, South Dakota, from 1951 until graduation in 1955 with a major in political science and a minor in economics. He worked on the university newspaper throughout his four years at Dakota Wesleyan, as well as at the Daily Republic, the local newspaper, including a year as a full-time reporter after graduation. He spent two years in the U.S. Army before attending Thunderbird.
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(Continued from the front flap) heavy-handedness severely damaged the U.S. image in Latin America and much of the Third World. Instead of ridding the hemisphere of a dictator, these efforts increased his international political stature and provided him the excuse for more repression in Cuba. U.S. attempts to overthrow Castro also had dire unintended consequences, such as contributing to the Soviet decision to install nuclear missiles in Cuba, which produced the most dangerous crisis of the Cold War. Bohning sheds new light on this covert war, revealing that it was even more extensive, risky, and long-lived than previously thought.
a former Latin America editor for the Miami Herald, has won numerous journalism awards, including the Maria Moors Cabot Prize for outstand ing journalistic contribution to interAmerican understanding. He lives in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
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