Before coming to the United States to do a Ph.D. in Political Science, I worked for six-and-a-half years as a journalist in Chile and Spain. That experience allowed me to cover political events in Chile, Spain, Argentina, Belgium, Haiti, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. As a correspondent, I covered elections in Venezuela and Argentina, the downfall of a government in Ecuador, hydrocarbon nationalization in Bolivia, and events that led to democratic progresses and setbacks.

One of the most interesting aspects of being a journalist was to meet and interview people from diverse origins. From presidents (e.g., Hugo Chávez, Alejandro Toledo, Alfredo Palacio, Eduardo Rodríguez) to renowned scholars and intellectuals (e.g., Ken Follet, Tariq Ramadan) to diplomats (e.g., Hans Blix) to royal family members (e.g., King Felipe of Spain) and all sorts of less-known, but no less attractive people. The interaction with politicians helped to persuade me that the behavior of people in positions of exceptional power has consequences that are commonly overlooked or misunderstood. That explains my long-term interest in studying how the individual differences of national political leaders influence executive governance.

The map has links to most of the articles that I published in the newspapers El Mercurio (499), ABC (15), and the magazine Ercilla (2) between 2002 and 2008. Most of the articles are about international political events. If you click on a blue circle over a country, you will see a list of the articles I published for that country. If you click once on the titles, you will access a PDF version of the article. Close to the center of the map, you will find the blue circles that link to articles about global affairs, Latin America, and the European Union.