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Riccardo Forte (USA) was born in Turin (Italy) and lives in the Washington D.C. area. He graduated from the University of Turin with a BA in Political Science and received his PhD in History of the Americas from the University of Genoa (Italy) and his PhD in History from El Colegio de Mexico (Mexico City). He is interested in Civil-Military Relations in Latin America from a political-cultural perspective and in International Relations in the Western Hemisphere. Riccardo has worked as full-time professor at El Colegio Mexiquense and at the Metropolitan Autonomous University in Mexico City, and as visiting professor at several Latin American universities. After leaving Mexico, in 2010, he worked at a research project about Political-Cultural Anti-Americanism, sponsored by the Einaudi Foundation and the Library of Congress. In 2014, Riccardo retired, but continued studying as an independent researcher. His academic work has been accepted for publication at several Latin American and Italian journals and reviews. His book Armed forces, political culture and internal security, was published in two languages, in Italy and Mexico. Riccardo’s no-academic interests are travels and photography.