Jules Dubois (31 March 1910, New York City - 15 August 1966, Bogotá[1]) was a Latin America correspondent for the Chicago Tribune (1947–1966)[1] and chairman of the Inter-American Press Association's press freedom committee, which he helped to organize in 1951.
[2] On his unexpected death of a heart attack in Bogotá, Colombia, in August 1966, he was described as "the world's most widely known and most decorated reporter of Latin American affairs".
[1] At the outbreak of World War II he became an army intelligence officer, serving in Panama, North Africa and Europe as well as the Pentagon.
[1] TIME described him as "an old friend" of Guatemalan President Carlos Castillo Armas, Armas having "studied under Colonel-Instructor Dubois during World War II in the U.S. Army's command and general staff school at Fort Leavenworth.
"[2] Dubois was present during the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état which brought Castillo Armas to power.