Authors

Fernández is an anthropologist and journalist based in Guatemala City. She has written for Prensa Libre, elPeriódico, Nuestro Diario and Soy502.

Kloppe-Santamaría is a sociologist and historian specializing in violence, crime, and gender in Mexico and Central America. She is an assistant professor of history and international affairs at George Washington University and a global fellow of the Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute. She is the author of In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and … Read more

Luna is an economist from UNAM with an M.Sc and Ph.D. in economics from the University of London. He was chief economist at Citibanamex between 2005 and 2020. He’s now Grupo Financiero Mifel’s chief economist. His views and opinions are his own.

González is a researcher at Paris Diderot University

Lizarazo is a senior analyst at Control Risks, based in Bogotá

Chang is a political consultant and professor at the Universidad del Valle 

Sampó is a researcher from the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (Conicet), Argentina. She is also one of the coordinators of the Center for Studies on Transnational Organized Crime (CeCOT), International Relations Institute (IRI), University of La Plata (UNLP), Argentina.