Tom Barry (political analyst)
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Tom Barry is Senior Policy Analyst and Americas Policy Program (www.americaspolicy.org) Fellow at the Center for International Policy (www.ciponline.org).
As senior policy analyst, Tom Barry participates in assigning, writing, and editing major pieces as well as defining strategic objectives of the Americas Policy Program. He began his career as a political activist and analyst at Georgetown University in the late 1960s. He worked as an investigative journalist for the Navajo Times in New Mexico and in 1971 founded an investigative newspaper. In 1979 he co-founded the Interhemispheric Resource Center (IRC), and joined CIP in 2007. He has authored or co-authored more than twenty books on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, food aid, the United Nations, free trade and U.S. foreign policy. These include The Great Divide: Challenge of U.S.-Mexico Relations in the 1990s (Grove Press), Feeding the Crisis: U.S. Food Aid and Farm Policy in Central America (University of Nebraska), The Next Fifty Years: The United Nations and the United States, and the award-winning Zapata’s Revenge: Free Trade and the Farm Crisis in Mexico (South End Press). He has also edited volumes on foreign policy such as Global Focus: U.S. Foreign policy at the Turn of the Millennium (St. Martin’s Press).
Among the books Barry has authored or edited are:
Zapata's Revenge: Free Trade and the Farm Crisis in Mexico Central America Inside Out Guatemala: A Country Guide The Great Divide: The Challenge of U.S.-Mexico Relations in the 1990s (coauthor with Beth Sims and Harry Browne) Feeding the Crisis: U.S. Food Aid and Farm Policy in Central America (coauthor with Rachel Garst) The Soft War: Uses and Abuses of U.S. Economic Aid in Central America (coauthor with Debra Preusch)
Editor: Mexico: A Country Guide Global Focus: U.S. Foreign Policy at the Turn of the Century
