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
- US bailout helped Milei, but Argentines wary of 鈥榚conomic Monroe Doctrine鈥�
- In Argentina midterms, a make-or-break referendum on the Milei revolution
- After strong-arming a ceasefire in Gaza, Trump tries to do it again in Ukraine
- With ceasefire and hostage deal, Gaza clears a hurdle. Taller ones remain.
- Gaza breakthrough: Israel and Hamas approve first phase of Trump plan
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