Armando Chaguaceda holds degrees in Education from the Higher Pedagogical Institute in Havana and in History from the University of Havana, a Master’s in Political Science (University of Havana) and a Doctorate in History and Regional Studies from the Universidad Veracruzana. He specializes in the study of the processes of democratization and autocratization, as well as in the State-civil society relationship with special attention to the cases of Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua and Venezuela. He has studied the political processes in post-Soviet Russia, as well as its geopolitical links with Latin America. He has 20 years of experience in promoting civil society, building capacities for democracy, and training in human rights, which he has put into practice with organizations and activists from Costa Rica, Cuba, the United States, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. He has taught at universities around the world including in Cuba, Mexico, Spain, Nicaragua, Colombia, and France.
Among his recent publications are:
Chaguaceda, Armando, La Otra HegemonÃa. Authoritarianism and resistance in Nicaragua and Venezuela, Editorial Hypermedia, Columbia, USA, 2020.
Chaguaceda, Armando & Duno, Luis (coords.) The right as authoritarianism in the 21st century, Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America / Center for Ibero-American Constitutional Studies / Rice University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2020.
Chaguaceda, Armando & Kozak, Gisela (eds.), The left as authoritarianism in the 21st century, Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America / University of Guanajuato / Center for Ibero-American Constitutional Studies/Universidad Central de Venezuela, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2019.