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Biography

Tomás Straka is Director of the Institute of Historical Research, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas. Member of the National Academy of History of Venezuela. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago and a guest researcher at Pomona College, the Universidad Autónoma Nacional de Mexico, and the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá. He is the author of more than a dozen books on historical topics, essays, and school textbooks. He was one of the authors of the third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Venezuela.
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