Venezuela Human Rights and democracy (1999-2009)

About the Book

This study aims to understand the centrality of human rights in Venezuela today and what philosophical and political models it has proposed.

About the Author

Carlos Gonzalez-Irago was born in Caracas, Venezuela (1958). He studied in Spain, graduating from the Universidad Complutense in Madrid with a degree in Journalism. He has worked as an editor/journalist for several Spanish, Venezuelan and Californian newspapers. Gonzalez Irago has conducted academic research in Canada, Nicaragua, Venezuela, El Salvador and Mexico. His first book was a study on the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua with the title “Patria y Libertad: the Human Rights Philosophy of Augusto C. Sandino,” and was published in 1995. He holds a Ph. D. in Philosophy and two M.A. degrees, History and Philosophy, in addition to a number of other educational certificates and awards from the California State University system. He has served on the Bilingual Advisory Committee of the Oakland Unified School District and held various teaching positions in the San Francisco Bay Area and New Jersey. In 2011, Gonzalez Irago graduated with a doctoral degree in Latin-American Philosophy at the Universidad Centro Americana (UCA) "José Simeón Cañas" in San Salvador (El Salvador). This book is an English version of his doctoral dissertation. At the present he is a Spanish, Latin American history and Human Rights teacher at Bergen County Academies in Hackensack, New Jersey.