Daniel gained his doctorate in history at the Universidad of París and is currently a lecturer and researcher for CEHIS at the Universidad Externado in Colombia.
He is the author of Un Nuevo Reino: pactismo, geografía política y diplomacia durante el interregno en Nueva Granada, 1808-1816 and El reconocimiento de Colombia, diplomacia y propaganda en la coyuntura de las Restauraciones, 1819-1831. He has also published an edited volume from the proceedings from the Electoral and Constituent Colleges of Cundinamarca and Antioquia and from reports on the Colombian spy in the court of Fernando VII. Full-text versions of some of Daniel’s articles can be read here.
In the podcast below, Daniel speaks about the declaration of independence in Venezuela in 1811.