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Scholarship

“Venezuelan Oil and Environment in the Gómez Era: The Case of Lagunillas,” in Latin American Environmental History: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS, University of London, 2004), 90-117. Click here to get the book.

D Phil., (Ph.D.), Modern History (Latin America), Oxford University, July 2002 (Dissertation: “Maracaibo Black Gold: Venezuelan Oil and Environment in the Era of Juan Vicente Gómez, 1908-1935”).

“Asserting State Authority through Environmental Monitoring: Venezuela in the Post-Gómez Era, 1935-1945,” Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 25, Number 2 (April 2006), 282-300

“Venezuelan State Policy Towards Motilón Indians: From Isolation to First Contact,” Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe (Volume 17-2, 2007), 7-33

Academic book reviews:

Miguel Tinker Salas and Steve Ellner, Venezuela: An Exceptional Democracy, Socialism and Democracy, 2008

“Conquering Nature: The Environmental Legacy of Socialism in Cuba,” Hispanic American Historical Review, Summer 2001, 402-403

Composite Review, “The Contentious Battle Over Natural Resources: Water and Power in Highland Peru, The Cultural Politics of Irrigation and Development; Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil, State Policy, Frontier Expansion, and The Xavante Indians, 1937-1988; Exporting Environmentalism, US Multinational Chemical Corporations in Brazil and Mexico,” Latin American Perspectives, November 2004, 112-117

“Debating the Panama Invasion: State Crime, the Media, And The Invasion of Panama,” Latin American Perspectives, November 2004, 118-119

“Social Development in Latin America: The Politics of Reform,” Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Vol. 30 No 59 (2005), 218-219

“Industry and Environment in Latin America,” Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Vol 30 No 59 (2005), 213-216

“Missionary Capitalist, Nelson Rockefeller in Venezuela,” Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe, Vol. 15, n. 2, 204-207

“Extractive Reserves in Brazilian Amazonia,” Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe Vol. 14, No. 2 (July-December 2003), 176


Selected Works

"... This valuable book reminds us not to forget ... the contribution the rainforest plays to keeping our planet habitable." -- best-selling author Bill McKibben
Nonfiction
"If you get your news on Latin America from mainstream media, this wide-ranging book is a needed corrective" -- Jeff Cohen, founder of Media Watch Group FAIR
"A thoughtful, well-researched alternative to the majority of information available on Chávez in the English-speaking world." --Publishers Weekly

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