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Professor Miguel Tinker Salas is an authority on the political and social issues confronting Latin America. He is the author of Venezuela: What Everyone Needs to Know; The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture and Society in Venezuela; co-editor with Steve Ellner of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez and the Decline of an Exceptional Democracy; co editor with Jan Rus of Mexico 2006-2012: neoliberalism, movimientos sociales y politica electoral; and author of Under the Shadow of the Eagles, The Border and the Transformation of Sonora During the Porfiriato.

His research expertise includes contemporary Latin America, society and politics in Venezuela and Mexico, oil, culture and politics in Venezuela, the drug war in Mexico, Mexican border society, Chicanos/as and Latinos/as in the United States, and Latin American immigration policies.

Venezuela: What Everyone Needs to Know, NewYork: Oxford University Press, 2015

Una herencia que perdura, petróleo, cultura y sociedad en Venezuela, Caracas: GALAC, 2014

A la sombra de las águilas, Sonora y la transformación de la frontera durante el Porfiriato, México: Fondo de Cultura, 2010

The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture and Society in Venezuela, Durham: Duke University Press, 2009

Venezuela, Hugo Chávez and the Decline of an Exceptional Democracy Steve Ellner and Miguel Tinker Salas ed., Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007

"The Mexican Presidency, 2006-2012: Neoliberalism, Social Movements and Electoral Politics," Latin American Perspectives, Jan Rus and Miguel Tinker Salas (ed.) March, 2006 Vol. 33:2 Issue 147

México 2006-2012: neoliberalism, movimientos sociales y política electoral Jan Rus and Miguel Tinker Salas, (cord.) México: Miguel Ángel Porrúa and Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, 2006
Under the Shadow of the Eagles, The Border and the Transformation of Sonora During the PorfiriatoBerkeley: University of California Press, 1997

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