Dr. Richard Harris is Professor Emeritus of Global Studies at California State University, Monterey Bay. He has a Ph.D. in Political Science and a Masters of Public Administration from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is currently an independent lecturer, researcher, consultant, writer and editor. He has been a member of the faculty, visiting scholar or an administrator at various universities around the world, including California State University, University of California, Harvard University, Cambridge College, Suffolk University, Universidad de las Americas in México, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in México, Universidad de Chile, Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero in Argentina, University of Zambia, University of Ibadan in Nigeria, La Trobe University in Australia, University of San Francisco, and Central American Institute of Administration in Nicaragua.Richard Harris is currently the managing editor of the international Journal of Developing Societies (published by SAGE Publications India) and one of the coordinating editors of Latin American Perspectives (published by SAGE Publications USA). He has published books, monographs and journal articles on a wide range of subjects, including globalization, neoliberalism, Latin American politics and economics, African politics and economics, economic and political development, socialism, democracy, global health, the media, revolutionary movements, bureaucracy and organizational change. He lives on the Big Island of Hawai'i and travels extensively.Included among his publications are: Che Guevara: A Biography (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO Greenwood, 2011), Capital, Power and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008), Morte de um Revolucionário: A Última Missão de Che Guevara (Rio De Janeiro: G. Ermakoff, 2008); Death of a Revolutionary: Che Guevara's Last Mission (New York: WW Norton, 2007, 2000 and 1970), Globalization and Development in Latin America (Whitby, Ontario: de Sitter, 2005); Globalization and Health (Boston, Köln and Leiden: Brill, 2004); Media, Identity and the Public Sphere in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Boston, Köln and Leiden: Brill, 2003); Critical Perspectives on Globalization and Neoliberalism in the Developing Countries (Boston, Köln and Leiden: Brill, 2000); Capital, Power and Inequality in Latin America (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1995); Marxism, Socialism and Democracy in Latin America (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992); Nicaragua: A Revolution under Siege (London: Zed Books, 1985); La Revolución en Nicaragua (México: Ediciones Era, 1985); and The Political Economy of Africa (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1975).