Education
Lyman graduated from Florida State University.
Lyman graduated from Florida State University.
He has written on topics from South America, including the thesis that the border conflict between Peru and Ecuador could be based on pre-Columbian Inca roots, and was the first to break the story that the United States. government was guilty of using illegal poison to eradicate coca crops in the Amazon jungle, contributing to a reversal of United States. policy in this area. His work has been published in periodicals including the San Francisco Chronicle, National Geographic News, Reason Magazine, United States of America Today, "The Hollywood Reporter", United Press International and the Wall Street Journal. He is also an editor and columnist for The American, a monthly magazine published in Rome.