Manuel Caballero

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Manuel Caballero
Manuel Caballero in 2008.
Manuel Caballero in 2008.
BornManuel Antonio Caballero Agüero
(1931-12-05)5 December 1931
Barquisimeto, Venezuela
Died12 December 2010(2010-12-12) (aged 79)
Caracas, Venezuela
OccupationHistorian, writer, journalist
NationalityVenezuelan
GenreHistory, essay
SubjectHistory of Venezuela
Notable worksGómez, el tirano liberal (1993)
SpouseHanni Ossott
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Manuel Antonio Caballero Agüero (5 December 1931 – 12 December 2010) was a notable Venezuelan historian, journalist, best-selling author and professor of contemporary Venezuelan History at the Central University of Venezuela.

Biography

Caballero was born in

El Nacional, El Diario de Caracas and most recently El Universal. Despite his past as a left-wing thinker and political activist, in particular against president Rómulo Betancourt, in his latter years he became one of the most vocal and vehement critics of president Hugo Chávez
and his administration. He revised his perspective on President Betancourt in a biography written in 2004.

On 2010, he underwent a prostate surgery that triggered a series of infections unresponsive to antibiotics, further complicated by diabetes. He died on 12 December 2010.

Works

  • 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)
  • ¿Por qué no soy bolivariano? (2006)
  • La Peste Militar (2007)
  • Contra la abolición de la historia (2008)
  • Polémicas y otras formas de escritura (2008)
  • No más de una cuartilla (2009)
  • Historia de los venezolanos en el siglo XX (2010)

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