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
Mar-07-2013 | Article
The death of Hugo Chávez presents an opportunity to rekindle the U.S. relationship with Latin American countries. Cuba can then become a "multilateral challenge" if both Americas can work together to instigate Cuban democratic reform... Read More »
by Laura Carlsen
May-17-2012 | Article
The movement of the 99 percent that began in the United States made visible the human beings who suffer the brutal inequality and injustice of an economic system that, in crisis, required them to sacrifice even more... Read More »
See more commentary »Robert White
Mar-15-2013 | Quotes
Recently declassified documents show U.S. was more involved in top-secret "Operation Condor" than led on... Read More »
Robert White
Aug-08-2012 | Quotes
Former Ambassador and CIP Senior Fellow Robert White named two Salaverria brothers -- Julio and Juan Ricardo -- as two of six Salvadoran exiles in Miami who had directly funded death squads. ... Read More »
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