Authors

Alma Guillermoprieto has written about Latin America for more than 20 years. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. Her latest book, Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution was published in 2004.

Luis Oganes is the head for Latin America in the Emerging Markets Research Group at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Ferentz Lafargue is a faculty member in the History and Social Science Department at Georgetown Day School. He was previously an assistant professor of Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts in New York City.

Roberto (Bear) Guerra is an award-winning photographer whose work focuses on humanitarian, environmental and social issues around the world, with a focus on Latin America. His images and photo essays have been published and exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad. Currently based in Oakland, CA, Bear and his wife, journalist Ruxandra Guidi, also collaborate … Read more

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., is a member of the committee and of the Subcommitee on the Western Hemisphere.

José Urtubey is co-founder and director of Grupo Tapebicuá, a forest industry group in Argentina

Daniel Artana is chief economist at FIEL in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Patricia Mercado is president of Liderazgo, Gestión y Nueva Política S.C. and director of the Instituto Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir. She was a presidential candidate in Mexico in 2006. Helen Mack is founder and president of the Myrna Mack Foundation. Cristián Castaño Contreras was director of the Mexican Institute of Youth from 2001 to 2006. … Read more

Carlos Yescas is the author of Indigenous Routes: A Framework for Understanding Indigenous Migration. He is a PhD student at The New School for Social Research.

John Echeverri-Gent is an associate professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia.

Abraham F. Lowenthal is the Robert F. Erburu Professor of Ethics, Globalization and Development at the University of Southern California and president emeritus of the Pacific Council on International Policy. Pablo Rojas Mejía is a junior at Brown University concentrating in Political Science and Economics.

Mariana Martínez Esténs is an independent multimedia journalist based in Tijuana, Mexico.

Ernesto Rois-Méndez is president of the Latin American Aeronautical Association.

Nicolás Entel is an Argentina-born, New York-based film director. Sins of My Father will be premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and will be aired by HBO next fall. Lucas Entel is a PhD student in political science at Yale University, also living in New York.

Mitchell A. Seligson is Centennial Professor of Political Science and Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. He is director of the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) that coordinates the AmericasBarometer surveys. His most recent book is The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Daniel E. Moreno Morales holds a PhD in … Read more