About the Author

Luis Fleischman is a political sociologist and a sociologist of international relations. He is a professor of Sociology at Palm Beach State College and the founding co-chair of the Palm Beach Center for Democracy, a recently created think-tank based in Florida. He is the author of the book Latin America in the Post Chavez Era: Threat to U.S Security (Potomac Books, 2013) and has written an extensive number of academic and journalistic articles on issues related to the Middle East, Democracy, Latin America and National Security.