Authors

Juan Camilo Plata is a researcher for the Latin American Public Opinion Project at Vanderbilt University.

Patrick Corcoran has written about Mexican politics for World Politics Review and Harvard International Review. He blogs at Gancho and Norteando, the new blog from the Mexican magazine Este País.

Andres Schipani is the Andes correspondent for Financial Times.  

Caroline Stauffer is a guest blogger to AQ Online. She is a Lima-based correspondent for Thomson Reuters and a former Americas Quarterly editorial associate.

Judith A. Morrison is senior advisor in the Gender and Diversity Unit at the Inter-American Development Bank.

Miguel Diaz served as a professional staff member with the U.S. House Intelligence Committee from 2008 until 2011. He also worked as the director of the South America Program at the Center for Strategic International Studies from 2001 until 2005 and as a senior economist for Nikko Research Center, Inc. in the late 1990s.  

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.