Authors

Matthew Sundquist was a Fulbright Scholar in San Juan, Argentina, from March to November 2010.

Omar Everleny Pérez is an economist at the University of Havana’s Centro de Estudios de la Economía Cubana.

José Antonio Lucero is associate professor of international studies and chair of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Alejandro Grisanti is senior economist for Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Central America and the Caribbean at Barclays Capital Inc.

Robert Maguire is a professor at The George Washington University, where he directs the Latin American and Hemispheric Studies Program.

Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and codirector of The Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. She is currently working on When Territory Exits Existing Frameworks (under contract with Harvard University Press).

Raúl Rivera is a Latin American social entrepreneur and author of Nuestra Hora. The book will appear in English as Latin America Comes of Age this year.

Roberto Setubal is the current president of Banco Itaú.

Hilda L. Solis is the 25th secretary of labor and the first Latina to hold the position in U.S. history.

Matias Spektor is an associate professor of international relations at Fundação Getulio Vargas in Brazil and a columnist at Folha de São Paulo, a leading newspaper. He is author of 18 Dias: quando Lula e FHC conquistaram o apoio de Bush (2014), Kissinger e o Brasil (2009) and, more recently, he coedited The Origins of … Read more

Jaime Acosta is a PhD Candidate at Rice University.  

Pablo Ortiz is a journalist for the Bolivian daily El Deber. Liliana Colanzi is an AQ blogger and journalist.

Daniel Zizumbo-Colunga graduated with honors from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and is now a PhD student in the Department of Political Science and research assistant with the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) at Vanderbilt University. Elizabeth  J. Zechmeister is associate professor of Political Science and associate director of LAPOP at Vanderbilt … Read more