Anibal Romero

Anibal Romero is a political science professor at Simon Bolivar University in Venezuela.

Opposition to Hugo Chavez
Romero is a prominent critic of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. In February 2005, the Associated Press quoted Romero as saying of Chavez's rule, "Venezuelan society has become poorer and, in addition, divided".

Also in early February 2005, Romero featured in "The Iron Fist of Hugo Chavez", an anti-Chavez piece on the Fox News website: "Political science professor Anibal Romero called Chavez a 'dangerous fellow, a confused person who is deeply anti-American and is prepared to do terrible things'." 

Romero is no stranger to using inflammatory language about Chavez. In July 2002 the Baltimore Chronicle reported that:


 * Now, on the eve of the July 11 march, the anti-Chávez rhetoric is getting increasingly violent. In the last couple of weeks, Anibal Romero, a columnist for the anti-Chávez daily El Nacional, called the president "a cancer that must be eradicated even at the cost of a civil war."

Biography

 * Founder and first editor of Politica Internacional, a Venezuelan journal of international affairs established in 1986.
 * In 1996, he was a Research Associate at the John M. Olin Institute of Strategic Studies at Harvard University, where he was Visiting Scholar at the Center for Latin American Studies in 1995.
 * Participant in "Constructing Democracy and Markets: East Asia & Latin America", a "one-and-a-half-day conference on democratic development and economic growth in East Asia and Latin America" organized by the National Endowment for Democracy on January 26-27, 1996.
 * Author of numerous books including The Decline and Prospects of Venezuelan Democracy (published in Spanish, 1994).
 * The 2000 annual report of the right-wing Hoover Institution listed Romero as a Visiting Fellow.

SourceWatch resources

 * Hoover Institution
 * Hugo Chavez
 * Venezuela

Articles

 * Brad Carlton, "History of Chávez: Why He Upsets DC", Baltimore Chronicle and Sentinel, July 28, 2002.
 * Ian James, "Hugo Chavez celebrates sixth anniversary", Associated Press, February 2, 2005.
 * "The Iron Fist of Hugo Chavez", FoxNews.com, February 04, 2005. Features Romero.
 * Ellen, "Is Venezuela Next? FOX News Paves the Way!", Newshounds blog, February 05, 2005. Discusses the Fox News item of the previous day.