Miguel Tinker Salas

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Miguel Tinker Salas is professor of Latin American history at Pomona College. His research includes work on the history of contemporary Venezuela and Mexico, and he is the author of Venezuela: What Everyone Needs to Know and The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture and Society in Venezuela.

World Leaders December 8, 2015

‘Democracy, as Usual,’ in Venezuela

Few outside observers realize that the fundamental conflict is not over democracy; it’s over oil.

Miguel Tinker Salas and Victor Silverman
Regions and Countries October 8, 2009

Reflections on a Decade of Civic Revolutions in Latin America

Having concluded that US and IMF/World Bank prescriptions failed their region, a new generation of leaders seek economic and social development through homegrown strategies.

Antonio Gonzalez and Miguel Tinker Salas

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World Leaders December 8, 2015

‘Democracy, as Usual,’ in Venezuela

Few outside observers realize that the fundamental conflict is not over democracy; it’s over oil.

Miguel Tinker Salas and Victor Silverman

Regions and Countries October 8, 2009

Reflections on a Decade of Civic Revolutions in Latin America

Having concluded that US and IMF/World Bank prescriptions failed their region, a new generation of leaders seek economic and social development through homegrown strategies.

Antonio Gonzalez and Miguel Tinker Salas