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Marcos Tarre Briceño was born in New York in 1950. He is a writer, essayist, columnist, editor, and security analyst. He graduated as an architect from the Central University of Venezuela in 1975.

He has specialized and holds a diploma in Human Rights. He has dedicated himself to analyzing the phenomena of crime and violence in Latin America. He has published the novels Colt Comando 5.56 (1983), which was made into a film in 1987; Sentinel 44 (1985); Operativo Victoria (1988), which was a finalist for the International Novel Prize Rómulo Gallegos; Bar 30 (1993); Bala Morena (Alfadil, 2004); the essays En Caso Extremo (1993); Manual de Seguridad y Prevención Comunitaria (1994); and the children's book ¿Gato Encerrado o Perrito Perdido? (2000).

He won the Lola Fuenmayor Story Contest in 1987 and was a finalist in the El Nacional newspaper's Story Contest in 2001. Since 1995, he has written the weekly column "No Sea Ud. La Próxima Víctima" ("Don't Be the Next Victim") in the El Nacional newspaper.