Authors

José Raúl Perales is executive director of the Association of American Chambers of Commerce in Latin America (AACCLA) and a lecturer at the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University. The expressions and opinions contained in the text are the author’s alone and do not represent the official position of AACCLA or … Read more

Rubén M. Perina teaches at George Washington and Georgetown Universities and, as a former OAS official, directed election observation missions in Paraguay, Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela, and the Dominican Republic.

Nora Lustig is the Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics at Tulane University.

Dani Rodrik is Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Lenín Moreno Garcés is vice president of the Republic of Ecuador.

Denise Paraná is TKTK.

David Razú is a deputy in the Legislative Assembly of the Federal District (Mexico City), where he chairs the commission on human rights.

Nelson Cruz is executive director of Fundación Salvador del Mundo (FUSALMO), a nonprofit organization dedicated to working with at-risk youth in El Salvador.

Aura Dalia Caicedo is head of the “Kambirí” National Network of Afro-Colombian Women.

Víctor Hugo Cárdenas is a Bolivian politician who was one of the first representatives of Indigenous descent in the national congress, and was vice president of Bolivia from 1993 to 1997.

Marina Silva served as Brazil’s minister of the environment between 2003 and 2008 and was the first rubber tapper elected to the Federal Senate.

Helen Rivas is an Alabama-based immigrant rights activist and founding member of Latinos Unidos de Alabama.

Benedita da Silva is a Brazilian politician who from 2002 to 2003 was governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro, the first female or Afro-Brazilian to hold that position.

Sergia Galván is executive director of Colectiva Mujer y Salud in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Paul Brunet is chairman of the board of directors of the Conseil pour la protection des malades.