Email: Howard LaFranchi
Howard LaFranchi has been the Monitor's diplomacy correspondent in DC since 2001. Previously, he spent 12 years as a reporter in the field; serving five years as the Monitor's Paris bureau chief from 1989 to 1994, and as a Latin America correspondent in Mexico City from 1994 to 2001. LaFranchi has continued to travel as diplomacy correspondent and covered the Iraq War from the Monitor's Baghdad bureau on numerous occasions.Prior to joining the Monitor, LaFranchi worked as the City Hall reporter for the Holyoke Transcript-Telegram. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley Journalism School and has a Masters Degree in Journalism from Boston University.
Stories by Howard LaFranchi
- In Iran, Trump is trying something untested: Outsourcing regime change
- Why would Trump strike Iran? How lack of clarity imperils a diplomatic deal.
- Letter to Pokrovsk, Ukrainian city of roses: Your beautiful spirit isn鈥檛 lost
- Trump鈥檚 Board of Peace meets, facing wariness and an immediate test: Gaza
- In Cuba, is Trump seeking ouster of Communist leaders, or of China鈥檚 presence?
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