Richard Gott is a British journalist and historian. He worked for many years at The Guardian in London, as a foreign correspondent and as the features editor. His books include The Appeasers (with Martin Gilbert), Guerilla Movements in Latin America, Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution and Cuba: A New History.
Richard Gott's new book is Britain's Empire: Resistance, Repression, and Revolt. He is currently an associate fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of London.
Some of his journalism may be found through this link at The Guardian.