Authors

Joel D. Hirst is a Human Freedom Fellow with the George W. Bush Institute; he tweets at @JoelHirst. Articles: Charticle: The Bolivarian Alternative What is the Bolivian Alternative to the Americas and What Does It Do?

Howard LaFranchi is a foreign affairs correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor.

Rafael Rojas is a Cuban historian and essayist exiled in Mexico. He is a professor at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City and a Global Scholar at Princeton University.

Eduardo Silva is Lydian Professor of Political Science at Tulane University.

Norm O’Reilly is associate professor of sport business at the University of Ottawa.

Alexandra Délano is assistant professor of global studies at The New School University. Jason Marczak is senior editor of Americas Quarterly and director of policy at Americas Society and Council of the Americas.

Liliana Rivera is a PhD Candidate at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. Yossi Sheffi is the Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems and director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics.

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.