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Author of The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents. He was stringer for the Washington Post during the Pinochet dictatorship, and later assistant editor on the Washington Post Foreign Desk, and deputy senior foreign editor and then managing editor for NPR. He is a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and has created two investigative reporting centers in Chile.
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