Howard lafranchi biography

Howard LaFranchi’s job is to report on the ever-changing relationships between the United States and other nations.

Howard lafranchi biography

Under the Trump administration, Howard told me, we are “at a moment of a once-in-a-century-or-so shift in the world order.”

But his reporting on global shifts is informed by shoe-leather reporting – talking to real people, not just diplomats – on nearly every continent.

Howard’s been chased by gun-toting soldiers or thugs from Iraq to Haiti. He’s been inspired by Indian girls taking control of their village. And he’s rubbed elbows with Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez – although that didn’t quite go as planned.

Howard joined the Monitor in 1982 and has been the Monitor's diplomacy correspondent in Washington since 2001.

He was the Monitor's Paris bureau chief from 1989 to 1994 and our Latin America correspondent in Mexico City from 1994 to 2001. He also covered the Iraq War du