Tulio Hernández is a Venezuelan writer who combines sociology with opinion writing, cultural criticism, and academic activities. He has been a member of the Communication Research Institute (ININCO) of the Central University of Venezuela and of the editorial board of the newspaper El Nacional, where he has written a Sunday column for over twenty years. His writing has been published in El País, The New York Times in Spanish, and Arcadia magazine, among other publications. Fleeing from the threat of imprisonment in Venezuela, he currently lives between Madrid and Bogotá. In 2017, he published his book Una nación a la deriva [A nation adrift].