John Dinges

John Dinges serves as the GlobalPost Regional Editor for Latin America based in New York and Santiago, Chile. Dinges is a former foreign correspondent and the author of three books on major events involving the United States and Latin America. He was a special correspondent in Chile and Central America for the Washington Post, where he also worked as a foreign desk editor. He also served as deputy foreign editor and managing editor of National Public Radio. Dinges is the recipient of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize for excellence in Latin American reporting and the Media Award of the Latin American Studies Association. He also shared two duPont-Columbia Awards as NPR managing editor. He is on the faculty of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and holds a master's degree in Latin American studies from Stanford University. Dinges' most recent book is "The Condor Years: How Pinochet and his Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents," an account of international assassinations and secret police coordination in South America, the United States and Europe.