John Lantigua covered Central America for the Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune. While at the Miami Herald, he shared the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for pieces investigating voter fraud in the 1997 Miami mayoral election.
His fifth novel, The Ultimate Havana (Signet), was published April 1 (2001).
Next year’s Florida gubernatorial election–which could pit presidential brother and current GOP Governor Jeb Bush against former Attorney General Janet Reno–is developing into the marquee melee
Joseph Heller would have had a field day with the hearings of the US Commission on Civil Rights in Tallahassee last week.