Authors

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

Paulo Sotero is director of the Brazil Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Janie Hulse is an analyst based in Buenos Aires, Argentina and the editor and producer of Insights from the Field, a quarterly publication on politico-economic and security issues affecting Latin America.

Tom Farer is University Professor at the University of Denver and a former member and president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (1976–1983).

Kray Luxbacher is assistant professor of mining and minerals engineering at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Bryce Rudyk is coordinator and fellow at the Global Climate Finance Project at the New York University School of Law.

Jorge Mercado is an energy specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank.

Moisés Naím is senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and chief international columnist for the Spanish daily El País.

Dan Restrepo was Special Assistant to the President for Western Hemisphere Affairs 2009 to 2012.