Brian Nelson will discuss and sign copies of his new book, The Silence and the Scorpion: The Coup Against Chavez and the Making of Modern Venezuela. This mesmerizing minute-by-minute account details 72 hours of chaos starting on April 11, 2002, when Chavez was temporarily ousted as President in response to his mishandling of the country’s oil industry. Nelson teaches at the Center for American and World Cultures at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
