Manuel Caballero

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Manuel Caballero
Born	December 5, 1931 Caracas, Venezuela

Manuel Antonio Caballero Agüero (b. December 5, 1931, Caracas) is a notable Venezuelan historian, journalist, best-selling author and retired professor of contemporary Venezuelan history at the Central University of Venezuela.

Caballero studied history at the Central University of Venezuela and got his PhD at the University of London. With the publication of his PhD dissertation he became the first Venezuelan author to be published by Cambridge University Press. In 1989 he was invited to teach at Universitá degli Studi di Napoli in Italy. He has received the National Award on Journalism (Premio Nacional de Periodismo) and the National Award in History (Premio Nacional de Historia, 1994) and in 2005 he was elected to become a member of the National Academy of History of Venezuela. He writes regularly for the Venezuelan newspapers El Nacional, El Diario de Caracas and most recently El Universal. Despite his past a left-wing thinker and political activist in particular against Rómulo Betancourt, he is currently one of the most vocal and vehement critics of President Hugo Chávez's antidemocratic policies. He revised his perspective on President Betancourt in a biography written in 2004.

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La PasIón de Comprender: ensayos de historia (y de) política (1983)
EL Orgullo de Leer (1988)
Las Elecciones Presidenciales: ¿la última oportunidad o la primera? (1989)
Gómez, El Tirano Liberal: vida y muerte del siglo XIX (1993)
De la "Pequeña Venecia" a la "Gran Venezuela": una historia de cinco siglos (1997)
Contra el golpe, la dictadura militar y la guerra civil (1998)
La Crisis de la Venezuela Contemporánea 1903-1992 (1998)
La gestación de Hugo Chávez: 40 años de luces y sombras en la democracia venezolana (2000)
Latin America and the Comintern, 1919–1943 (2002)
Rómulo Betancourt, Político de Nación (2004)
El Desorden de los Refugiados (2004)
Dramatis Personae: doce ensayos biográficos (2004)