Colette Capriles is a Fellow of the Academy of Political and Social Sciences, Venezuela. Associate professor, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas. Editor of Argos, peer-reviewed and indexed journal, 2012-2018. She has wide experience in the design, administration and evaluation of social and cultural policy programs, as well as consultancy with diverse political and civil society organizations. She was awarded with the Federico Riu Philosophical Research Award, 2001. Fulbright Scholar, Summer Institute in American Political Development, 2003. Her current research includes the classical and modern political philosophy of tyranny, Twenty-First Century democracies, and Venezuelan modernity.

This is what Venezuelans really want. Opinion Guest Essay, The New York Times Jan. 4, 2026.

El debate | ¿Qué posibilidades hay de una transición democrática en Venezuela? El País, 06 de enero de 2025

La Agenda Social y de Derechos: una experiencia para la construcción de consensos democráticos. Boletín de la Academia de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, 178, abril-junio 2025, 753-770;

Le Choc de l’Émigration : Identité et Modernité Imaginée. Problèmes d’Amérique Latine, 2023, I, 2, pp. 61-74.