Miguel Tinker Salas (born 1953 in Caripito) is a Venezuelan historian and professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California.
[1] Tinker Salas's research and academic interests include a wide range of topics related to the history of Latin America, and Latino/as within the United States.
Tinker Salas's first book Under the Shadow of the Eagle examines the deep ties that Sonoran society had developed with the U.S. economy by the late nineteenth century, and how “these ties led to increased cultural interaction as well.”[2] Tinker Salas's second book The Enduring Legacy studies the cultural and social legacy of multinational oil companies in Venezuela.
According to Marco Cupolo, the book “provides a concise, well-supported background to contemporary oil politics and social conflict in Venezuela.”[3] In 2009, Tinker Salas and Steve Ellner also edited together Venezuela: Hugo Chávez and the Decline of an “Exceptional Democracy.” In 2006, Tinker Salas and Jan Rus co-edited México, 2006-2012: Neoliberalismo, movimientos sociales y política electoral.
His interviews have appeared on local, national, and international radio and television outlets including CNN,[8] Aljazeera,[9] KPFK, PBS Lehr Newshour,[10] Univision, and Telemundo.