Authors

Hu is a former intern with the Americas Program at CSIS and a graduate student at Georgetown University

Ziemer is an associate fellow with the Americas Program at CSIS

Hernandez-Roy is a senior fellow and deputy director of the Americas Program at CSIS

Wallace is an award-winning journalist and author and an associate professor of journalism at the University of Connecticut

Mazariegos is an editor at AQ.

Romero is senior fellow and co-founder of Miami Strategic Intelligence Institute. He is a retired U.S. Navy and Army intelligence officer with 37 years of combined service.

Marrero is president and founder of Miami Strategic Intelligence Institute. He is a Stanford and Cornell-trained economist and senior geopolitical analyst with expertise in government contracting and Fortune 500 supply chains.

Le Cour Grandmaison is the Head of the Haiti and Caribbean Observatory at the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC), an independent organization based in Geneva, Switzerland.

Barrera Díaz is a bilingual editor and journalist. She covered corporate and financial news across the U.S. and Latin America for Reuters and later served as a Spanish-language team leader and breaking news editor at Bloomberg.

Writt is a research coordinator at JGI and an international relations graduate student at FIU’s Green School

Brown is a research coordinator at JGI and a global affairs graduate student at FIU’s Green School.

Escobari is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She was previously assistant administrator for USAID’s Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean and has served on the White House National Security Council.

Ibáñez is a Chilean journalist covering the politics, economics and cultures of Latin America

Lugo is an international correspondent in Caracas and a former Director of elestímulo.com and former editor-in-chief of El Mundo. He’s been covering Venezuela’s politics and economy for the past three decade for organizations such as Reuters, EFE and America Economía.