H. Micheal Tarver teaches Latin American History at McNeese State University (Louisiana), and is an adjunct member of the “Grupo de Análisis Socio-Político de Venezuela” at the Uni...view moreH. Micheal Tarver teaches Latin American History at McNeese State University (Louisiana), and is an adjunct member of the “Grupo de Análisis Socio-Político de Venezuela” at the Universidad de Los Andes (Mérida, Venezuela). Tarver was a 1999 J. William Fulbright Senior Scholar to Venezuela and a 1998 Shearman Research Fellow at McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana. He is a past Chairman of the Gran Colombian Studies Committee of the Conference on Latin American History, and is the current Secretary of the Southeast World History Association. Tarver has a doctorate in Modern Latin American History from Bowling Green State University (Ohio).view less