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Alejandro Peña Esclusa

Alejandro Peña Esclusa (born 3 July 1954) is a Venezuelan writer, analyst and political consultant, expert on the subject of the São Paulo Forum, about which he has written five books. The most sold of them is entitled ''The Cultural War of the Sao Paulo Forum'', which has been translated from Spanish into English, Portuguese, Italian, Slovenian and Hungarian.

He is a mechanical engineer by profession, graduated in 1977 from the Universidad Simón Bolívar, in Caracas. He studied financial administration at the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración in Caracas, in 1981, and completed a master's degree in security and defense at the Instituto de Altos Estudios de Defensa Nacional de Venezuela, in 1987.

He is president of the NGO [https://www.fuerzasolidaria.org Fuerza Solidaria] and founder of the Unión de Organizaciones Democráticas de América (UnoAmerica). In 1998 he was a candidate for the presidency of Venezuela. He was the first to denounce Hugo Chávez's links with Cuban Castro-communism and the Colombian guerrilla.

Pioneer of the first protests against Chávez, in 2010 he was imprisoned in El Helicoide, without trial to date. Political and social leaders, intellectuals, parliamentarians and bishops from different countries requested his release, expressing that it was a political persecution.

A year after his arrest, he was released due to international demands, but with a ban on leaving the country, carrying a passport, expressing an opinion on any subject, using social networks and engaging in political activities. His case was presented before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and before the International Criminal Court in The Hague. To date, he continues to be politically persecuted.

He has an in-depth knowledge of the regional reality and promotes the consolidation of democracies in the face of the expansionist threat of the Sao Paulo Forum. He is a fervent promoter of Ibero-American integration, as stated in another of his books, entitled ''The Continent of Hope''. Provided by Wikipedia