Eric J. Lyman is an American journalist and writer who has authored topics from South America including the now-accepted thesis that the border conflict between Peru and Ecuador could be based on pre-Columbian Inca roots, and breaking news that the U.S. government was guilty of using illegal poison to eradicate coca crops

Coca eradication

Coca eradication is a controversial strategy strongly promoted by the United States government starting in 1961 as part of its "War on Drugs" to eliminate the cultivation of coca, a plant whose leaves are not only traditionally used by indigenous cultures but also, in modern society, in the...

 in the Amazon jungle, contributing to a reversal of U.S. policy in this area.

His work has been published in periodicals including the San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Chronicle

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, National Geographic News, Reason Magazine, USA Today

USA Today

USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, something it previously held since 2003...

, and the Wall Street Journal.

In addition to his freelance work, Lyman is an editor and columnist for The American, a monthly magazine published in Rome.

The American

• "Making it cool", January 2006.
• "Saintly wine", November 2005.

National Geographic News

• "UN World Summit Pact Gets Mixed Reviews", September 3, 2002.

Reason Magazine

• "Private Life: How privatization is starting to revive Peru", 1996.

The San Francisco Chronicle

• "U.S. accused of creating blight, Killing coca plants and harming other crop", November 9, 1999.

United Press International (UPI)

• "Analysis: Hollywood at the service of science", July 1, 2004.

USA Today

• "Italian atheist sues priest over Jesus' existence", January 30, 2006.
• "Vatican's Latin expert no stuffy academic", April 21, 2005.
• "Pope can reach followers via electronic media", March 17, 2005.

The Wall Street Journal

• "Should he stay or should he go? The case for Alberto Fujimori," 1998.

External links

• The American, monthly magazine published in Rome.
• ericjlyman.com