Carlos G. Torrealba Méndez is an associate researcher at Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, UNAM. His research focuses on democracy, governance, and populism. He has published articles in journals such as NACLA Report on The Americas, Cahiers des Amériques Latines, Critical Policy Studies, and Critical Sociology. He and Laura Loeza Reyes are editors of his most recent book, Procesos de autocratización en Venezuela, Mexico, Nicaragua, El Salvador y Hungría (CEIICH-UNAM). He is an international collaborator of INCT Participa (Brazil) and a member of the Governance Working Group of the Mexican Council of Social Sciences.

2025 Loeza, L. y Carlos Torrealba (coords). Procesos de autocratización en Venezuela, México, Nicaragua, El Salvador y Hungría, Ciudad de México: CEIICH-UNAM. https://www.libros.unam.mx/procesos-de-autocratizacion-en-venezuela-mexico-nicaragua-el-salvador-y-hungria-9786075877556-libro.html

2025 Torrealba, C. “Contesting the state from within: authoritarianism and institutional activism in Venezuelan communes”. Critical Policy Studies, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2025.25653202019 García-Guadilla, M. P. and Torrealba, C. (2019). “Learning from Venezuela’s Missteps in Building Urban Popular Power: Once-hopeful experiments in local democracy have largely succumbed to the crushing crisis gripping Venezuela. What can we learn from their demise?”, NACLA Report on the Americas, 51(4), 348–355. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714839.2019.1692960