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DESCRIPTION:A guest lecture by Christopher Neal.\n\nChristopher Neal is an 
 author\, journalist and retired communications manager specialized in inte
 rnational affairs\, development issues and Latin America. After obtaining 
 a bachelor’s degree in political science at Carleton University\, he start
 ed his career in the 1980s as a reporter for the Montreal Gazette and Otta
 wa Citizen\, including three years as a freelancer in Latin America. He la
 ter shifted to communications management for the non-governmental internat
 ional development organizations CUSO and the Canadian Council for Internat
 ional Cooperation. From there\, he was recruited by Canada’s federal Canad
 ian International Development Agency (now part of Global Affairs Canada)\,
  where he held various posts\, including Director-General of Communication
 s. In 1998\, joined the World Bank\, managing media relations and communic
 ations\, respectively for its Latin America department\, its chief economi
 st and research department\, and its energy practice. He also completed a 
 master’s in international policy and practice at George Washington Univerr
 sity. In 2016\, he returned to his native Montreal\, where he has been a b
 oard member of the Quebec Community Groups Network and Quebec Writers’ Fed
 eration. In 2022\, he published a book\, The Rebel Scribe – Carleton Beals
  and the Progressive Challenge to US Policy in Latin America.\n\nAbstract:
   Carleton Beals was among America’s most distinctive foreign corresponden
 ts. His colorful\, combatively critical reporting of U.S. intervention in 
 Latin America had a fearless energy and authority that won him millions of
  readers. He interviewed the Nicaraguan rebel leader Sandino in the camp f
 rom which he fought thousands of U.S marines in 1928\, covered two revolut
 ions in Cuba (1933 and 1959)\, and interpreted the Mexican Revolution for 
 American readers. Beals’s dispatches and features appeared regularly in th
 e Nation\, New Republic\, Current History and the Progressive\, and often 
 in the New York Times. Time magazine called him “the best informed and the
  most awkward living writer on Latin America.”\n\nAt once biography and an
 alytical history\, The Rebel Scribe tells the story of this fiercely indep
 endent non-conformist. It probes Beals’s interactions with political leade
 rs\, democrats\, demagogues\, populists and revolutionaries\, and reveals 
 how his ability to immerse himself in their societies gave his accounts a 
 palpable authenticity and\, time has shown\, a prescience that is almost p
 rophetic. Christopher Neal’s book traces how Beals identified patterns of 
 political behavior and concepts that later became fully-fledged schools of
  thought\, such as the idea of a Third World\, dependency theory\, U.S. ne
 o-imperialism\, and aspects of critical theory. His story sheds light on t
 he evolution of U.S. foreign policy and intervention\, from Mexico and Nic
 aragua in the 1920s\, to Cuba and Vietnam in the 1960s. It reveals the fra
 ught trail that faced—and still faces—contrarian journalists who challenge
  conventional assumptions\, while also showing how probing journalism driv
 es change.\n
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LOCATION:Room 160\, Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue 
 Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:The Rebel Scribe - Carleton Beals and the Progressive Challenge to 
 US Policy in Latin America.
URL:/isid/channels/event/rebel-scribe-carleton-beals-a
 nd-progressive-challenge-us-policy-latin-america-344727
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