Background
Samuel Dillon was born in 1951.
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Pulitzer Prize
Sam Dillon was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for reportage on the Iran-Contra scandal and in 1998 for reportage on drug corruption in Mexico.
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Sam Dillon was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for reportage on the Iran-Contra scandal and in 1998 for reportage on drug corruption in Mexico.
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Comandos: The CIA and Nicaragua's Contra Rebels
(The book recounts how the American Government financed an...)
The book recounts how the American Government financed and orchestrated the ten-year civil war between the Sandinistas and the Contras.
https://www.amazon.com/Comandos-CIA-Nicaraguas-Contra-Rebels/dp/0805023577
1991
Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy
(The Story of Mexico's political rebirth, by two Pulitzer ...)
The Story of Mexico's political rebirth, by two Pulitzer prize-winning reporters Opening Mexico, is a narrative history of the citizens' movement which dismantled the kleptocratic one-party state that dominated Mexico in the twentieth century and replaced it with a lively democracy. Told through the stories of Mexicans who helped make the transformation, the book gives new and gripping behind-the-scenes accounts of major episodes in Mexico's recent politics.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008DM2J92/?tag=2022091-20
2004
Samuel Dillon
Edit ProfileCareer
Samuel Dillon began his journalism career in 1981 when he reported on the civil war in El Salvador for the Associated Press. In 1987, Dillon was part of a team that won the Pulitzer for a series of stories on the Iran-Contra scandal, a situation in which the administration of U.S. President Ronald Reagan was accused of illegal arms dealings and negotiating for hostages. Dillon won his second Pulitzer for a series of articles on the effects of drug-related corruption in Mexico.
Alongside with the journalism, Samuel does the writing. His book Comandos: The CIA and Nicaragua's Contra Rebels drew on his knowledge of the civil war in El Salvador, which pitted the contra rebels against the Sandinista government. Comandos shows some positive points about the contras as well as detailing their record of human-rights abuses, and also reveals the complicity of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in their activities. Dillon focuses his account on Comandante Johnson, a contra leader who attempted to stop the abuses that were so commonplace among the rebel forces.
Another Dillon's book, Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy, describes how the election of Vicente Fox in 2000 brought an end to seven decades of government control by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (IRP). The IRP was an authoritarian ruling party, despite Mexico's claim of democracy. Dillon and co-author Julia Preston "brilliantly" tell a significant story, according to a Foreign Affairs reviewer. They discuss how the authoritarian history of Mexican rule compounded the problem of establishing true democracy in that country.
Samuel Dillon's career started at the Associated Press, as Chief of El Salvador bureau, from 1981 to 1982. Later he changes his workplace to the Miami Herald, Miami, Florida, where he worked as San Salvador bureau chief, from 1982 to 1995, Nicaraguan bureau chief, from 1987 to 1989, South America bureau chief, from 1990 to 1992, the Latin American correspondent, from 1995 to 1997. At the time, Samuel Dillon started his work for New York Times, New York City, New York, as a metropolitan reporter from 1992 to 1995, next as a Mexico City bureau chief from 1995 to 2000, and also as a foreign and national correspondent in 2001.
Achievements
Works
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Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy
(The Story of Mexico's political rebirth, by two Pulitzer ...)
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Comandos: The CIA and Nicaragua's Contra Rebels
(The book recounts how the American Government financed an...)
1991
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Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy
Connections
Sam Dillon is married to Julia Preston.
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Career
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1981 - 1982
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1982 - 1995
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1987 - 1989
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1990 - 1992
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1992 - 1995
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1995 - 1997
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1995 - 2000
Awards
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Pulitzer Prize, United States
Sam Dillon was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for reportage on the Iran-Contra scandal and in 1998 for reportage on drug corruption in Mexico.Sam Dillon was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for reportage on the Iran-Contra scandal and in 1998 for reportage on drug corruption in Mexico.
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Tom Wallace Award, United States
Sam Dillon received the Tom Wallace Award from the Inter-American Press Association in 1988 for reportage on the Nicaraguan civil war, and 1989, for a profile of Manuel Noriega's business empire.Sam Dillon received the Tom Wallace Award from the Inter-American Press Association in 1988 for reportage on the Nicaraguan civil war, and 1989, for a profile of Manuel Noriega's business empire.