Martin Markovits has been a freelance writer for the past three years. He has covered Hugo Chavez and Venezuelan politics for the San Fransisco Chronicle, the U.K magazine The New Statesman, The Earth Island Journal and the Free Speech radio news network. He also covered the hotly contested 2006 Mexican presidential election. Martin has directed several documentaries for Venezuelan television and Current TV. Recently he has produced several documentaries shorts as a foreign correspondent for the Underground in Los Angeles. Martin is an LA native and attended the University Santa Barbara majoring in political science.