- William Booth
- Staff Writer
William Booth is bureau chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. His recent work has focused on the violence and instability created by drug trafficking and the fight against it. Booth served as national correspondent in Miami and Los Angeles, and did a stint as a pop culture writer for the Style section, trying to make sense of Paris Hilton. He has covered military conflicts in Haiti, the Balkans and Iraq. Before coming to the Post, Booth wrote for Science magazine. He was awarded a Vannevar Bush Fellowship at MIT and graduated from the University of Texas in Austin.
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