Michael J. Merry

Michael J. Merry was educated at the Royal Liberty School in
Essex, England.
He trained as a telecommunications instructor and traveled
to Latin America
to work. He lived there for the next 28 years, primarily in
the Republic of
Panama. He went on to manage a major U.S. news operation in
Latin America,
travelling widely in the process. He was in Argentina when
the Army revolted
in 1987 and Venezuela during the attempted coup by Lt.
Colonel (now
President) Hugo Chavez in 1992. He eventually moved to Miami
scripting two
nationally televised financial programs and became Managing
Editor of a
widely read financial report. Mr. Merry and his wife live
close to their two
sons and two grandsons in Miami Shores, Florida.