Jon Lee Anderson - The New Yorker

Foreign Correspondence

Have Hugo Chavez and Barack Obama read your book? Jon Lee Anderson of The New Yorker can say that they have. Jon Lee tells us about his early years chronicling rebel groups and insurgents from Latin America to Asia, culminating in writing a book about the quintessential guerrilla Che Guavara. Working for The New Yorker, he has gotten to know many world leaders more intimately than most any living journalist.

Countries featured: Peru, El Salvador, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti, Colombia

Publications featured: Time magazine, New York Times, New Yorker

Here are links to some of the things we talked about:

Jon Lee’s work for The New Yorker - https://bit.ly/3R5pJpz

His book about guerrillas - https://amzn.to/3yfGrtC

His book about Che Guavara - https://amzn.to/3OH52hY

His first story for The New Yorker on Cuba - https://bit.ly/3P0JT20

His story about Hugo Chavez - https://bit.ly/2VVD0Zu

NYTimes story on Haiti reparations - https://nyti.ms/3NHRXng

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