senior fellow
Email: rewhite@ciponline.org
Phone: (202) 232-3317
During his twenty-five-year Foreign Service career, White specialized in Latin American affairs with a particular emphasis on Central America. Among the posts he held were Latin America Director of the Peace Corps, deputy permanent representative to the Organization of American States, ambassador to Paraguay and to El Salvador. After retiring from the Foreign Service in 1981, White served as a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Since joining the Center for International Policy as its president in 1989, he has presided at conferences and led delegations to several Latin American and Caribbean countries, published numerous studies of U.S. policy toward the region, and led an ongoing effort to reform U.S. intelligence agencies.
by Robert White
Jul-05-1999 | Policy Brief
The reports of the Central American truth commissions are not just about events that took place against the backdrop of the cold war. They are about the United States today, and the role we intend to play in the world.... Read More »
by Robert White
Nov-03-1997 | Policy Brief
Democracy has come to Haiti and the benefits are important and tangible. There is a grave political crisis, yet there is no threat of official violence. Haiti's leaders are looking for solutions within a constitutional framework.... Read More »
See more publications »by Robert White and Glenn Hurowitz
Aug-31-2009 | Article
When Honduran soldiers entered democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya's bedroom and packed him off in his pajamas at gunpoint to exile this summer, the ... Read More »
by Robert White
Jul-31-2009 | Article
President Mel Zelaya is right to refuse to be delivered back to his presidential chair, trussed and bound like a capon, an impotent symbol of a democratic façade. If Secretary of State Clinton permits the coup regime to impose conditions on the return of the constitutional president... Read More »
See more commentary »Robert White
Mar-22-2011 | Interviews
President Obama wraps up his Latin America tour in El Salvador. Anchor Lisa Mullins discusses the visit ... Read More »
Robert White
Mar-18-2011 | Quotes
The visit "is a declaration that the United States is no longer identified with oligarchic governments," ... Read More »
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