Forty-Nine and Counting
Buenos Aires — March 24 brings back vivid memories of 49 years ago. I was resident correspondent in Buenos Aires
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Martin McReynolds, 91, is a retired American reporter, photographer and copy editor living in Buenos Aires, Argentina. with his Argentine wife, Irma Norma Perez. .
Martin was born in Los Angeles and graduated from UCLA, where he was 1954 editor of the college newspaper, The Daily Bruin, when it battled restrictions from a hostile university administration during the depths of McCarthyism.
Attracted by Latin people and culture since childhood, he served two years as a U.S. Army draftee, then worked for a small California newspaper as reporter-photographer before going to the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean in 1961 as a freelancer to cover the turbulent events that followed the assassination of longtime dictator Rafael Trujillo. Hired there by the news agency United Press International (UPI) he spent 20 years as a UPI reporter, photographer, copy editor and bureau chief, mainly in Latin America.
He ended his career with 18 years as copy editor on the Foreign Desk of The Miami Herald and retired to Santa Rosa, California in 2000.
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