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Douglas Farah is the president of IBI Consultants and a Senior Associate of the Americas Program at CSIS. He is a national security consultant and analyst. IBI Consultants focuses on Latin American transnational organized crime, gangs and illicit product movements. IBI Consultants consults for the U.S. government (DoD, DHS, DOJ), private clients and non-governmental organizations.
In 2004 Farah worked for nine months with the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence, studying armed groups and intelligence reform. For the two decades before that, he was a foreign correspondent and investigative reporter for the Washington Post and other publications, covering Latin America and West Africa.
Born to missionary parents on July 22, 1957, he moved to the Amazon basin in Bolivia when he was 18 months old. When he was 7 years old his family moved to the capital of La Paz. Following his graduation from the American Cooperative School in December 1974, he spent several years working in rural development and traveling around Latin America and Europe.
In 1980, he enrolled at the University of Kansas, where he began working for United Press International. In 1985, after graduating with honors (B.A. in Latin American Studies and an B.S. in Journalism), he was named UPI bureau chief in El Salvador, covering the civil war there and the U.S.-backed Contra rebels in Honduras. In 1987 he left UPI to freelance for The Washington Post, the Boston Globe and US News & World Report. In 1988 he won the Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award for Foreign Correspondence for a Washington Post series on right-wing death squads in El Salvador.
He has written two book, peer reviewed articles and has testified before the U.S. Congress on more than a dozen occasions.
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