Jules Dubois

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Jules Dubois (31 March 1910, New York City - 15 August 1966, Bogotá[1]) was a Latin America correspondent for the Chicago Tribune (1947–1966)[1] and chairman of the Inter-American Press Association's press freedom committee, which he helped to organize in 1951.[2] On his unexpected death of a heart attack in Bogotá, Colombia, in August 1966, he was described as "the world's most widely known and most decorated reporter of Latin American affairs".[1]

Dubois worked for the New York Herald Tribune (1927–1929), before moving to Panama and working on various newspapers there.[1] At the outbreak of World War II he became an army intelligence officer, serving in Panama, North Africa and Europe as well as the Pentagon.[1] He was a graduate of the U.S. Army's command and general staff school at Fort Leavenworth.[1] TIME described him as "an old friend" of Guatemalan President Carlos Castillo Armas, Armas having "studied under Colonel-Instructor Dubois during World War II in the U.S. Army's command and general staff school at Fort Leavenworth."[2] Dubois was present during the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état which brought Castillo Armas to power.[2] His obituary declared that "he knew every president, every chief of staff, every dictator, and most of the would-be dictators in Latin America,"[1] and "could get more information on a telephone in a hotel room in one afternoon than most correspondents could get in months of travel."[1]

He won the 1952 Maria Moors Cabot prize (from Columbia University), the 1959 from the IAPA, and the 1966 World Association of Newspapers' Golden Pen of Freedom Award.[1] In 2000 the Inter-American Press Association's new headquarters building was named after Dubois.

In 1977 The New York Times reported that Dubois was said to have been a CIA asset.[3]

Books[]

  • Fidel Castro: Rebel, Liberator, or Dictator?, Bobbs-Merrill, 1959
  • Freedom is my beat, Bobbs-Merrill, 1959
  • Operation America: Beyond Cuba - The Inside Story of the Communist Plan to Subvert Latin America, New York, 1963
  • Danger Over Panama, Bobbs-Merrill, 1964

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 17 August 1966, Jules Dubois Dies in Bogota Hotel, pp1-2
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c TIME, 15 April 1957, The Press: Freedom Fighter
  3. ^ John M. Crewdson and Joseph B. Treaster, "CIA Established Many Links to Journalists in US and Abroad," The New York Times, 27 December 1977, p. 40.
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