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University of Dayton eCommons News Releases Marketing and Communications 2-23-1988 Journalist Gives Talk at UD on Latin America and the Church Follow this and additional works at: https://ecommons.udayton.edu/news_rls Recommended Citation "Journalist Gives Talk at UD on Latin America and the Church" (1988). News Releases. 4901. https://ecommons.udayton.edu/news_rls/4901 This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Marketing and Communications at eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in News Releases by an authorized administrator of eCommons. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. The University gf Dayton News Release JOURNALIST GIVES TALK AT UD ON LATIN AMERICA AND THE CHURCH DAYTON, Ohio, February 23, 1988--As part of a Midwest speaking tour, investigative reporter and author Penny Lernoux will give two talks on the Catholic Church and Latin America at the University of Dayton on Thursday, March 3. Lernoux will conduct a forum entitled "The Church and U.S. Corporations in Latin America: Clashing Interests" at 3:30 p.m. in Kennedy Union 331. At 8 p.m., she will discuss "The Catholic Church: Where It's Going and What That Means for Latin America" in UD's Immaculate Conception Chapel. Sponsored by UD's Center for International Studies, both are free and open to the public. For information, call 229-3514. Lernoux, a journalist with 25 years of reporting experience in Latin America, is best known for her work on the continent's political and economic developments and the international politics of Catholicism. Her book Cry of the People describes the clash between the Latin American Catholic Church and U.S. corporate interests. In Banks We Trust documents crime in the international banking community and the impact of the foreign debt on Latin American economies. In her most recent book, People of God, she describes the struggle between John Paul's papacy and the increasingly independent local churches. It also documents the parallelism in U.S. and Vatican policies in the Third World. Born in Los Angeles, Lernoux went to Latin America in 1961 to work for the U.S. Information Agency in Bogota, Colombia, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 1964 she joined the Copley News Service, and for a decade she reported from Caracas, Venezuela; Buenos Aires, Brazil; and Bogota, Colombia. Since 1975, she has worked as a free-lance writer for numerous publications, including Harper's, Newsweek, the Miami Herald and The Nation, for which she is the Latin American correspondent. She is also the Latin American affairs writer for the National Catholic Reporter. - 30 - PUBLIC RELATIONS AND UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS 300 College Park Dayton, Ohio 45469-0001 (513) 229-3241 .

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