Jorge Olavarría


Jorge Olavarría was a Venezuelan journalist, politician, historian, and writer. He was editor of the magazine Resumen from 1973 to 1984. Collections of his writings for El Nacional and El Universal were published in 1999 and 1994, respectively. He was elected to the Venezuelan Chamber of Deputies in the 1963 elections, and re-elected in the 1968 elections. He was a presidential candidate in the 1983 election and the 1988 election, for the party "OPINA", and was a member of the 1999 Constituent Assembly of Venezuela. He also served as Venezuela's ambassador to Britain. As a historian and writer, his books covered subjects such as the 1945 Venezuelan coup d'état and the dictator Juan Vicente Gómez.
He studied law at the Complutense University of Madrid.

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