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219 aBout tHe autHoR John Wright was born in 1952 in Flint, Michigan; his family moved to the West Coast when he was eight. He graduated from Humboldt State University in Northern California and later studied at New York University and attended graduate school at the University of Washington. He wrote for newspapers in the Northwest before moving to Venezuela in 1981 to work as a reporter and editor at the English-language The Daily Journal. He traveled throughout Latin America for two years before going to work for the Associated Press as an editor on the international news desk in New York and as a correspondent for Mexico, Central America, and the United Nations. He coordinated a package of stories about Latin American street children that won the prestigious Inter American Press Association’s 1989 Tom Wallace Award. His next overseas assignment was as Brazil bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswires in 1993. He returned to Seattle in 1996 as the Pacific Northwest correspondent for Knight Ridder Financial News, which became Bridge News and closed down in 2001. He joined the start-up Energy News Today, where he works as editor of Latin America news. ...

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