Everything about Raymond Bonner totally explained
Raymond Bonner (born
1942) is an
American investigative reporter for
The New York Times and the
International Herald Tribune. He has also contributed to
The New York Review of Books.
Early life
Bonner graduated from
MacMurray College and earned a J.D. degree from
Stanford University Law School in 1967. In 1968 he joined the
U.S. Marine Corps, and was honorably discharged with the rank of captain in 1971. Before taking up journalism, Bonner worked as a staff attorney with
Ralph Nader's Public Citizen Litigation Group, as a director for the West Coast office of the
Consumers Union, and as director of the consumer fraud/white collar crime unit of the
San Francisco District Attorney's office.
Career
From 1988 through 1992, Bonner lived in Nairobi, and then Warsaw, Vienna, and Jakarta. Bonner is best known as one of two journalists (the other was
Alma Guillermoprieto of
The Washington Post) who broke the story of the
El Mozote massacre, in which some 900 villagers at
El Mozote,
El Salvador, were slaughtered by the Salvadoran army in December 1981.
A
Times staff reporter at the time, Bonner was smuggled by
FMLN rebels to visit the site approximately a month after the massacre took place.
When the story broke simultaneously in the
Post and
Times on
January 27,
1982, it was dismissed as propaganda by the
Reagan administration, as it seriously undermined efforts by the US government to bolster the human rights image of the Salvadoran government, which the US was supporting with large amounts of military aid.
The
Times was strongly criticized by the editorial page of the
Wall Street Journal,
Accuracy In Media and the Reagan government for reporting the story of the massacre. The
Times was pressured to pull Bonner from the Central American desk; then managing editor
Abe Rosenthal moved Bonner to the Business desk, and Bonner resigned soon afterward. He continued to contribute as a freelance correspondent, and returned to the staff of
The New York Times in 1992, after details of the massacre as first reported by Bonner and Guillermoprieto were verified.
Personal
Bonner is married to
Jane Perlez, former
Jakarta bureau chief of the
Times. They currently reside in England.
Books by Raymond Bonner
- The Agony of El Salvador. New York: Times Books, 1981. ASIN|B0007266AY
- Weakness and Deceit: U.S. Policy and El Salvador. New York: Crown, 1984. ISBN 0812911083 ISBN 978-0812911084
- Waltzing with a Dictator: The Marcoses and the Making of American Policy. New York: Crown, 1987. ISBN 0812913264 ISBN 978-0812913262 (winner of the Robert F. Kennedy, Overseas Press Club, and Sidney Hillman Foundation awards for best book on foreign affairs)
- At the Hand of Man: Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife. New York: Vintage, 1993. ISBN 0679400087 ISBN 978-0679400080 (External Link
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