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Editor-at-Large Latin America – Fair Observer

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Professor Leonardo Vivas is a Fellow the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and is Director of the Latin American Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School. At Fair Observer, he serves as the Editor-at-Large for Latin American issues.

Professor Vivas is a sociologist from Central University in Venezuela, with an M.Phil from University of Sussex, UK, and a Ph.D from Nanterre Université in Paris.

He founded and for several years has led Latin Roots, an organization devoted to Latino Culture and Education in Massachusetts. Professor Vivas has been a fellow and associate researcher at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. At Tufts University he taught a course about the Chavez Era in Venezuela. In Venezuela he was Director of Industry in the Development Ministry and founder of several nonprofit organizations.

Professor Vivas has published two books about Venezuela's political crises and co-edited another about grass roots management. He writes for the media both in the Boston area and in Venezuela.

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