Authors

Ortiz-Mena is the Founder and CEO of AOM Advisors, where he provides strategic advisory services to private and public multinational corporations on trade dynamics, foreign investment strategies, and geopolitics. He is also an Adjunct Professor of International Political Economy at the Center for Latin American Studies, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.

Marroquín Bitar is the Inaugural Bersin-Foster North America Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center. He co-founded the North America Project at the US-Mexico Foundation and the non-profit North America 3.0.

Larratt-Smith is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Security Studies at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP).

Polga-Hecimovich is an associate professor of political science at the U.S. Naval Academy, where he also co-directs the Forum for Latin American Studies.

Martínez is an associate professor of political science at the University of Concepción (Chile) and serves as the alternate director of the Millennium Nucleus on Political Crises in Latin America – CRISPOL

Smith is a research professor of economics at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, and has been a consultant with the World Bank, IDB, OAS, OECD, the Inter-American Foundation and the U.S. Department of State.

Coste is a columnist at Expansión Política and author of Derechos humanos y política en México (2022).

Quiroz is an economist and a public affairs and political risk consultant in the energy sector at Integralia, in Mexico City.

Uzcátegui is a sociologist and the Co-Director of Laboratorio de Paz, an NGO dedicated to promoting democracy and human rights in Venezuela. Previously, he was the General Coordinator of PROVEA, another Caracas-based NGO focused on defending economic, social, and cultural human rights.

Sicard Jimenez is a policy intern at the Council of the Americas in Washington, DC and a graduate student at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). She was previously an editorial assistant at AQ.

Viales is a freelance journalist based in Yucatán

Daly is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and a Nonresident Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is an expert on war, peace, democracy, crime, and Latin America and author of “Violent Victors: Why Bloodstained Parties Win Postwar Elections” and “Organized Violence After Civil War: The Geography of Recruitment … Read more

Hendrix is chief executive of Hendrix LLC and senior research fellow at DePaul University College of Law. He is a former career diplomat and Coordinator for Foreign Assistance of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) at the U.S. State Department.