Ko Daniel Chavez he tohunga tikanga tangata o Uruguay me te kaiputaiao torangapu e aro ana ki nga mahi torangapu o Amerika Latina me nga nekehanga hapori taone. I uru atu ia ki te Trasnational Institute (TNI, Amsterdam) i te tau 2001 hei Kairuruku mo te Kaupapa Pungao, e titiro ana ki nga huarahi manapori me te whai waahi atu ki te whakatumatuma hiko i te Ao Tonga. I mua i tana neke ki Uropi, neke atu i te tekau tau tana mahi mo te Uruguayan Federation of Mutual-Aid Housing Cooperatives (FUCVAM). I tenei wa, kei te whakarite ia i te kaupapa TNI New Politics Programme, i te mahi tahi me Hilary Wainwright. He maha nga pukapuka kua tuhia e ia, kua whakatikahia, tae atu ki te The New Latin American Left: Utopia Reborn, me Patrick Barrett me Cesar Rodriguez Garavito (Pluto Books, 2008), me The Left in the City: Participatory Local Governments in Latin America, me Benjamin. Goldfrank (LAB, 2003). Kei a ia te Phd i roto i nga kaupapa Torangapu o te Whanaketanga mai i te Institute of Social Studies (ISS, The Hague).