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Juan Carlos Gumucio (November 7, 1949 – February 25, 2002) was a Bolivian-born journalist, writer and linguist, and the second husband of Marie Colvin. He was born in Cochabamba on November 7 1949 into one of Bolivia's grandest families, with wealth founded on land and mining; one of the country's oldest churches, at Santa Cruz, bears a plaque recording its foundation in the 16th Century by his ancestor. ==Career== Gumucio worked as a journalist for over 30 years, having started his career in his hometown, Cochabamba, as a crime reporter for ''Los Tiempos'' and Radio Centro. During the early 1970s, Gumucio was forced to leave his native Bolivia for Argentina following a military coup. Due to his involvement with and activism in left-wing politics, he was unable to return to Bolivia and moved to Washington where he worked for a period as political attaché in the Bolivian embassy in the United States and as press secretary for the Organization of American States before joining the Associated Press news agency in New York as a reporter. He was later posted to Rome, Tehran and Beirut. When AP ordered its foreign staff to leave Lebanon, after its bureau chief Terry Anderson had been kidnapped, Juan Carlos joined ''The Times'' and afterwards the Spanish daily ''El País'', as its Middle East correspondent. He was one of the few western journalists to stay on in West Beirut as kidnappings raged in the mid-1980s. Gumucio was one of the few Western journalists to remain in West Beirut after the hostage crisis reached its height. Most of the foreign press corps fled in 1986, but Gumucio stayed put, out of bravery, stubbornness (he resented being told what was best for him by bosses who were sitting in America) and a shrewd assessment of his chances: a swarthy, bearded Bolivian, he could pass as a Hezbollah, and often did. Robert Fisk would later describe Gumucio as "a big man with the energy of a hyperactive puppy dog and a deceptively mild, bland humour that concealed a dark understanding of his colleagues' weaknesses". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Juan Carlos Gumucio」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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