Authors

Natalie Kitroeff is a research associate in the Latin America Studies program at the Council on Foreign Relations.

David Gacs is multimedia editor for AQ Online and new media manager for AS/COA Online.

Hernán Rincón is president of Microsoft Latin America.

Nic Wirtz and Kara Andrade are contributing bloggers to AQ Online. Nic Wirtz is a freelance journalist who has lived in Guatemala for the last six years. His work has been featured on the Christian Science Monitor and GlobalPost, and he is editor for the website Vozz. Kara Andrade is a Central American-based freelance photojournalist … Read more

James Bosworth is director of analysis at Southern Pulse and author of Bloggings by Boz. He is based in Mexico City.

Juan Cruz Díaz is managing director at Cefeidas Group, an international advisory firm based in Argentina.

Marta Tienda is Maurice P. During ’22 Professor in Demographic Studies and professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University.

Kevin P. Gallagher is associate professor of international relations at Boston University and co-author of The Dragon in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization (Stanford University Press, 2010).

Layne Holley is director of community services for the International Customer Management Institute (ICMI) and leads its editorial and research initiatives.

Andrea Armeni is executive director of the Gaia Amazon Fund, which supports the local Indigenous population in Colombia’s Northwest Amazon.

Colin Robertson is a senior strategic advisor with McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP and vice president of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute. He served as first head of the Advocacy Secretariat at the Canadian Embassy in Washington DC.

Matthew Walter has worked as a correspondent in Chile, Venezuela and Guatemala. He is currently pursuing a masters degree in international affairs at Columbia University. Whitney Eulich contributed reporting.

José Merino is professor of political science at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México.

Alejandro Poiré was the Mexican government’s spokesman for security affairs at the time of writing this article before becoming the director-general of the Center for Intelligence and National Security (CISEN). He is now Mexico’s interior minister.