intervention in Latin America have been overwhelmingly negative. In a 2010 interview with Imagineer Magazine, he said: foreign policy as overly interventionist. In Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change From Hawaii to Iraq (2006), he critiqued U.S. foreign policy toward Latin America and more recently the Middle East.

Kinzer has since that time criticized what he regards as interventionist U.S. In chapter 2 of Manufacturing Consent, Kinzer is criticized for deploying no skepticism in his coverage of the murders of GAM (mutual support group) leaders in Guatemala and for 'generally employ an apologetic framework' for the Guatemalan military state. Herman and Noam Chomsky in their book Manufacturing Consent (1988), which cited Edgar Chamorro ('selected by the CIA as press spokesman for the contras') in his interview by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting describing Kinzer as 'just responding what the White House is saying'. Kinzer's reporting on Central America was criticized by Edward S. He is a Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Kinzer also contributes columns to The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Boston Globe.

overthrow of foreign governments from the late 19th century to the present, as well as Rwanda's recovery from genocide. He has written several nonfiction books about Turkey, Central America, Iran, and the U.S. He then took up residence in Boston and began teaching journalism and U.S. Upon returning to the U.S., Kinzer became the newspaper's culture correspondent, based in Chicago, as well as teaching at Northwestern University. Kinzer was The New York Times chief in the newly established Istanbul bureau from 1996 to 2000. In 1990, The New York Times appointed Kinzer to head its Berlin bureau, from which he covered Eastern and Central Europe as they emerged from Soviet bloc. A former New York Times correspondent, he has published several books, and writes for several newspapers and news agencies.ĭuring the 1980s, Kinzer covered revolutions and social upheaval in Central America, and wrote his first book, Bitter Fruit, about military coups and destabilization in Guatemala during the 1950s. Stephen Kinzer (born August 4, 1951) is an American author, journalist, and academic. American author, journalist, and academic

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