Career
Gugliotta graduated from Columbia University in 1967. [1] Drafted three months before graduation, he spent two years as a division and watch officer aboard an Atlantic Fleet destroyer and a year as Officer-in-Charge of a river patrol boat (Swift Boat) in the Mekong Delta. He was awarded three Bronze Stars, two with a combat V. [2]
After Vietnam, Gugliotta returned to Columbia and earned a master's degree in International Affairs at the Columbia University School of International Affairs. [1] He worked for United Press International for six years: as a reporter and editor for the New York local desk; then as UPI's Caribbean News Editor based in Puerto Rico; its chief correspondent in Argentina, where he covered the Dirty War; and as news editor for Brazil. In late 1978, he joined the Latin America Desk of the Miami Herald, covering the Sandinista Revolution, [3] Argentina's Falkland Islands War and World Cup Soccer Championships and was the first U.S. correspondent for a major newspaper to report extensively about the Colombian cocaine cartels. [4] He also covered the Iranian Revolution in 1978-1979, [2] the Iran hostage crisis, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and sectarian violence in Northern Ireland. In 1990 he joined The Washington Post , covering the Gulf War, [5] Congress, [6] including Clinton's impeachment, [7] science and space. [8]
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