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Much of this section of the website is devoted to my work on Venezuela.

In 1988, I went to Venezuela as a high school exchange student. I landed in the city of Maracaibo, a place that the tour books actually recommend that you avoid. It has been described as dangerous, disease-infested, and infernally hot.

After a not completely painless adjustment period, it became my favorite place in the world.

I was all but adopted by a Venezuelan family and have kept close ties with them and my Venezuelan friends ever since.

In 2002 I returned for a two-year period to do research for my first book The Silence and the Scorpion.

If you want to know more about Maracaibo, I published a story about it in 2008. Los Maracuchos: Life in Venezuela's Oil Boomtown.

 

MORE ARTICLES ABOUT VENEZUELA:

Spring 2011 - The Education of Hugo Chávez --Feature article from The Virginia Quarterly Review

June 2009 - If only Chávez were more like Castro --An op-ed from The Christian Science Monitor

July 2009 - The Chávez-Castro Connection --An op-ed from From the History News Network

"Hugo Chávez is not going away soon"--An op-ed from The Christian Science Monitor

"ONE CROWDED HOUR: An Intimate Look at the Street Violence that Sparked the 2002 Coup against Hugo Chávez." --From The Virginia Quarterly Review

 

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