16 Facts About Blase Bonpane

Blase Anthony Bonpane was the director of the Office of the Americas in Los Angeles, California, which he co-founded with his wife Theresa in 1983.

Blase Bonpane was expelled from that country in 1967 in the midst of a revolution.

In 2006, The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation awarded Blase Bonpane the Distinguished Peace Leadership Award.

In June 2018, Blase Bonpane announced he would stop broadcasting World Focus.

Blase Bonpane received his PhD in Social Science from University of California Irvine in 1984.

Blase Bonpane has served on the faculties of the University of California Los Angeles, California State University Northridge, and California State University Los Angeles.

Blase Bonpane hosted the radio program "World Focus" on Pacifica Radio station KPFK in Los Angeles at 10:00 am each Sunday as well as internationally from the KPFK site.

On 15 May 2018, after 50 years of broadcasting, Blase Bonpane retired from the program.

In 1983, Blase Bonpane garnered notoriety following an appearance on Hot Seat, a television program hosted by conservative commentator Wally George.

An argument about the US invasion of Grenada turned into a dramatic physical confrontation when Blase Bonpane overturned George's desk, live on-the-air, and stormed out of the studio.

Blase Bonpane served on the Advisory Council of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.

Blase Bonpane played a significant role in the dialogue in Latin America between Christianity and Marxism.

Blase Bonpane led investigative delegations to Nicaragua, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, Honduras, Costa Rica and Peru.

Blase Bonpane traveled through the conflict zones of Chiapas, Mexico together with Bishop Samuel Ruiz on a series of peace missions and served on the board of SICSAL, a hemispheric ecumenical secretariat based in Mexico City.

Blase Bonpane participated in peace missions to El Salvador, Colombia, Ecuador and Iraq.

Blase Bonpane ran for the US House of Representatives in 1992 as a member of the Green Party.