Authors

William Jefferson Clinton was the 42nd President of the United States.

Charles Shapiro is a retired U.S. diplomat and president of the Institute of the Americas, a public policy think tank at the University of California San Diego.

Ivan Petrella (@ipetrella) is a Harvard PhD and the academic director of Fundación Pensar in Buenos Aires.

Nathaniel Parish Flannery is a Mexico City-based writer .

Adrian H. Hearn is convenor of international relations at the University of Sydney China Studies Centre.  He is a co-editor of China Engages Latin America: Tracing the Trajectory (2011).

Juan Nagel is Professor of Economics at the Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile, and co-author of Blogging the Revolution. Follow Juan on Twitter: @juannagel.

Eric L. Olson is senior associate for security policy at the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute.

Ricardo Camargo Mendes is a partner at Prospectiva Consulting in São Paulo, Brazil.

Gregory Elacqua is director of the Public Policy Institute at the School of Economics and Business at Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile.

Stephanie Leutert is an M.A. candidate at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.

Gabriel Duque Mildenberg is vice minister of foreign trade of Colombia.

Martin Vieiro is research analyst at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author.

Barbara Kotschwar is research associate at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and adjunct professor of Latin American studies and economics at Georgetown University.

Silvio Waisbord is professor and associate director at the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University. He is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Press/Politics. He has published books and articles about media politics in Latin America.