He holds a Ph.D. in American History from the Complutense University of Madrid, is a principal investigator at the Elcano Royal Institute, emeritus professor of American History at the National University of Distance Education and is a member of the National Academy of History of Argentina. In 2015, he was selected as one of the “50 most influential Ibero-American intellectuals” (Esglobal). He has been a Senior Associate Member at Saint Antony’s College of the University of Oxford (1992-1993), deputy director of the Ortega y Gasset University Institute and director of the Latin America program (1996-2002), a visiting researcher at the Universidad de Los Andes (Corona Chair, 2003), as well as a professor at the Complutense University of Madrid and San Pablo CEU. He began his academic career researching colonial economic history and then specialized in the political history of Latin America of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Currently, he combines his work as a historian with that of an analyst of International Relations in Latin America. His latest book entitled, El Sueño de Bolívar y la Manipulacion Bolivariana: Falsification of History and Regional Integration in Latin America, was published in 2021.