Louis Uchitelle

Uchitelle joined The Times in 1980 from the Associated Press, where he had been a reporter, editor, and foreign correspondent in Latin America, as well as a news executive.

From 1967 to 1973 he was bureau chief in Buenos Aires, Argentina, reporting such stories as the rise and fall of the Tupamaro urban guerrillas in neighboring Uruguay, the Argentine guerrilla movement, the numerous economic issues and trends in Latin America's southern cone countries, the return of Juan Domingo Perón, and the election of a Peronist government in 1973.

From 1964 to 1967, he was the AP's correspondent and bureau chief in San Juan, Puerto Rico, with responsibility for the Caribbean.

He played a lead role in AP's coverage of the U.S. military intervention in the Dominican Republic in 1965.

Uchitelle began in journalism as a general assignment reporter on The Mount Vernon (N.Y.) Daily Argus.