Alberto Garrido

Garrido was born in Buenos Aires in 1949. As a youth, he became politically active in leftist groups fighting against the military dictatorship that ruled the country from 1976 to 1983. His activism led to him fleeing Argentina and settling in Venezuela, where he finished high school at the Liceo Libertador in Mérida.{{cite magazine|title=La última entrevista de Alberto Garrido|last=Rosales|first=Jurate|magazine=Revista Zeta|issue=1639|location=Caracas|date=13 December 2007|language=es}}{{cite web|url=https://www.aporrea.org/actualidad/a46746.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210223181758/https://www.aporrea.org/actualidad/a46746.html|archive-date=23 February 2021|work=Aporrea|title=LA COLUMNácida|last=Rugeles A.|first=Manuel|date=7 December 2007|access-date=16 July 2022|language=es}} He later returned to Argentina to study philosophy at the National University of Misiones and social psychology at the Universidad Argentina John F. Kennedy, before going back to Venezuela, where he completed a doctoral degree on agrarian development at the University of the Andes.{{cite web|url=https://www.poemas-del-alma.com/blog/noticias/muere-escritor-analista-politico|work=Poemas del Alma|title=Muere el escritor y analista político Alberto Garrido|last=Pérez Porto|first=Julián|date=6 December 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929090324/https://www.poemas-del-alma.com/blog/noticias/muere-escritor-analista-politico|archive-date=29 September 2022|language=es}}{{cite book|title=Guerrilla y conspiración militar en Venezuela. Testimonios de Douglas Bravo, William Izarra, Francisco Prada|last=Garrido|first=Alberto|editor-first=José Agustín|editor-last=Catalá|no-pp=yes|page=Back cover|publisher=Fondo Editorial Nacional|location=Caracas|date=1999|language=es|isbn=980-263-324-0}} He would later teach courses on Political Science at the University of the Andes.

Due to his Argentine heritage, he was known by Venezuelan coworkers, friends and peers as "Che Garrido".{{cite web|url=https://www.analitica.com/opinion/opinion-nacional/el-otro-chavez/|work=Analítica|title=El otro Chávez|last=Rivas Leone|first=José Antonio|date=8 April 2002|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220808094816/https://www.analitica.com/opinion/opinion-nacional/el-otro-chavez/|archive-date=8 August 2022|language=es}}

Garrido's career in Venezuelan media led to him being appointed director of the local newspapers El Globo (Caracas) and El Correo de los Andes (Mérida). He was also an editorial advisor and political editor at Reporte and member of the directive board of Relevo magazine, and served as the Argentina correspondent of El Diario de Caracas during the Trial of the Juntas. He would later become a regular columnist at El Universal.{{cite news|url=https://www.elsiglodetorreon.com.mx/noticia/2007/fallece-cronista-de-hugo-chavez.html|work=El Siglo de Torreón|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220716063335/https://www.elsiglodetorreon.com.mx/noticia/2007/fallece-cronista-de-hugo-chavez.html|archive-date=16 July 2022|title=Fallece cronista de Hugo Chávez|date=5 December 2007|access-date=16 July 2022|language=es}}

His first published book, Guerrilla y conspiración militar en Venezuela (1999) featured extensive interviews with leftist guerrilla fighters Douglas Bravo, William Izarra and Francisco Prada in the context of the election of Hugo Chávez as president of Venezuela. Over the course of his career, he released up to 17 books on Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution, becoming one of the most published specialists on the Chávez phenomenon and leading Venezuelan media to dub him "Chavólogo". His views and positions were variously described as either pro-Chávez and anti-Chávez by supporters and detractors of the late president; Chávez himself considered Garrido's writing to be "unbiased".

In 2002, he published El otro Chávez, a controversial book compiling interviews with Herma Marksman, who was Chávez's mistress.

He died on 4 December 2007 in Caracas due to complications caused by pancreatic cancer, and was survived by a son and a daughter. His last interview, taken the day before his death by Jurate Rosales, was published in Revista Zeta on 7 December 2007.

• {{cite book|title=Guerrilla y conspiración militar en Venezuela. Testimonios de Douglas Bravo, William Izarra, Francisco Prada|publisher=Fondo Editorial Nacional|location=Caracas|date=1999|isbn=980-263-324-0}}
• {{cite book|title=La historia secreta de la Revolución Bolivariana|date=2000|publisher=Editorial Venezolana|location=Caracas|isbn=980-292-803-8}}
• {{cite book|title=La Revolución Bolivariana. De la guerrilla al militarismo. Revelaciones del comandante Arias Cárdenas|location=Caracas|date=2000|isbn=980-292-870-4}} (self-published)
• {{cite book|title=Mi amigo Chávez. Conversaciones con Norberto Ceresole|location=Caracas|date=2001|isbn=980-292-972-7}} (interviews with Norberto Ceresole; self-published)
• {{cite book|title=Hablan las FARC y el ELN. Guerrilla y Plan Colombia|location=Caracas|publisher=Producciones Karol|date=2001|isbn=980-292-933-6}}
• {{cite book|title=El otro Chávez. Testimonio de Herma Marksman|location=Caracas|date=2002|isbn=980-07-8155-2}} (interviews with Herma Marksman, self-published)
• {{cite book|title=Testimonios de la Revolución Bolivariana|location=Caracas|isbn=980-07-8649-X|date=2002}} (self-published)
• {{cite book|title=Documentos de la Revolución Bolivariana|location=Caracas|isbn=980-07-8650-3|date=2002}} (self-published)
• {{cite book|title=Guerrilla y Revolución Bolivariana. Documento|location=Caracas|isbn=980-12-0158-4|date=2003}} (self-published)
• {{cite book|title=Guerra Global. Plan Colombia y Revolución Bolivariana. Notas|location=Caracas|isbn=980-12-0376-5|date=2003}} (self-published)
• {{cite book|title=La línea roja de Chávez. Notas|location=Caracas|isbn=980-12-0773-6|date=2004}} (self-published)
• {{cite book|title=Revolución Bolivariana 2005|location=Caracas|isbn=980-12-1072-9|date=2005}} (self-published)
• {{cite book|title=La guerra (asimétrica) de Chávez|location=Caracas|publisher=Alfadil Ediciones|isbn=980-354-173-0|date=2005}}
• {{cite book|title=Las guerras de Chávez|location=Caracas|publisher=Rayuela Taller de Ediciones|isbn=980-6406-67-2|date=2006}}
• {{cite book|title=Chávez, Plan Andino y Guerra Asimétrica|location=Caracas|publisher=Los Libros de El Nacional, Fuera de Serie|isbn=980-388-271-6|date=2006}}
• {{cite book|title=Chávez con uniforme. Antibiografía (Únicamente para chavólogos)|location=Caracas|isbn=978-980-12-2672-7|date=2007}} (self-published)

• {{cite book|title=La nueva relación entre Argentina y Brasil|location=Mérida|publisher=Impr. Talleres Gráficos de la Universidad de los Andes|date=1987|isbn=980-292-023-1}}
• {{cite book|title=No Tengo Prisa: Conversaciones con Jesús Soto|location=Mérida|publisher=Consejo de Desarrollo Científico, Humanístico y Tecnológico de la U.L.A.|date=1989|isbn=980-292-100-9}}

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• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naE3VHgztDU Garrido interviewed by Marcel Granier in Primer Plano (RCTV), 2003]

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