Robert Carmona-Borjas

Robert Carmona-Borjas is a Venezuelan-American lawyer, academic, and writer. He currently holds a faculty position at American University in Washington, D.C. and has previously taught at George Washington University. Carmona-Borjas is recognized for his work in addressing issues of governability, defending human rights, promoting democracy, and fighting against corruption. In addition to his teaching career, he has authored multiple books and serves as a columnist for various newspapers, including El Nuevo Herald (Miami), El Heraldo (Honduras), El Universal (Venezuela), La Prensa (Nicaragua), Tiempo Latino (Washington) and the Venezuelan TV network Globovisión.

Following the events that transpired in April 2002, during which Carmona-Borjas played a role in drafting the decree that reinstated the powers of the state, which had been illegally dissolved by Pedro Carmona Estanga, he sought political asylum in the United States. Carmona-Borjas co-founded the Arcadia Foundation, an anti-corruption non-governmental organization (NGO), together with Ugandan human rights activist Betty Oyella Bigombe.

Career
Carmona-Borjas taught at the Simon Bolivar University in Venezuela. He is known for addressing the issue of governability, the defense of human rights, democracy and the fight against corruption.

He is the co-founder of the Arcadia Foundation, an anti-corruption foundation aiming to promote the values of rule of law and democracy in politically tumultuous regions of the world. The organization has worked in Honduras, Colombia, Venezuela, Uganda and the United States. Arcadia has recently allocated focus to the corruption occurring within Honduras' Hondutel, and pressed for criminal charges. He has uncovered Marcelo Chimirri's activities.

Books

 * Cuba: asedios, utopias y otros bloqueos (Vestigios, Mexico, 1994) [Cuba: Sieges, Utopias and Other Blockades],
 * Mas Alla; de la Genesis del 11 de Abril (Alexandria Library, April 2009) [Beyond the Genesis of April 11] ,