John Dinges

John Dinges is the author of several books on dictatorships, human rights, and covert activities in Latin America. After a decades-long year career as a journalist and correspondent at the Washington Post, Time, the Miami Herald, National Public Radio, and other media organizations, he was named the Godfrey Lowell Cabot Professor of Journalism, now Emeritus, at Columbia University. Among other awards, Dinges was decorated with the Order of Bernardo O’Higgins by Chile in recognition of his investigation of the crimes of the Pinochet military dictatorship.