Eduardo Gamarra, Professor and Director, Latin American and Caribbean Center (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh); Comparative Politics, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Eduardo A. Gamarra received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Pittsburgh in 1987. He has been affiliated with Florida International University since 1986 where he is Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Center, a professor in the department of political science, and the editor of Hemisphere, a magazine on Latin American and Caribbean affairs. Gamarra is the author, co-author, and editor of several books including Revolution and Reaction: Bolivia 1964-1985 (Transaction Publishers, 1988); three volumes of the Latin America and Caribbean Contemporary Record (Holmes and Meier Press); Latin American Political Economy in the Age of Neoliberal Reform (Lyne Rienner Publishers 1994); Democracy Markets and Structural Reform in Latin America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico (Lyne Rienner Publishers, 1995); and Entre la Droga y la Democracia (Freiderich Ebert Foundation, 1994). The author of over forty articles on Latin America, he has testified in the US Congress on drug policy toward Latin America. His current research focuses on the political economy of narcotics trafficking in the Andean region and the Caribbean, democratization, and civil-military relations.
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