Tom Barry (political analyst)

Tom Barry is an American political analyst. As of 2007 he is Senior Policy Analyst and Americas Policy Program Fellow at the advocacy group Center for International Policy (CIP).

Barry 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. As senior policy analyst, Barry participates in assigning, writing, and editing pieces, as well as defining strategic objectives of the Americas Policy Program.

Books

Tom Barry 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.

Author

*"Zapata's Revenge: Free Trade and the Farm Crisis in Mexico", South End Press.
*"Central America Inside Out"
*"Guatemala: A Country Guide"
*"The Great Divide: The Challenge of U.S.-Mexico Relations in the 1990s", Grove Press. (coauthor with Beth Sims and Harry Browne)
*"Feeding the Crisis: U.S. Food Aid and Farm Policy in Central America", University of Nebraska. (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", St. Martin’s Press.

External links

* [http://www.ciponline.org Center for International Policy]