Authors

Martina Rapido Ragozzino is an Americas research assistant at Human Rights Watch.

Roman Ortiz is vice president of Cordillera Applications Group, a firm specialized in security and political risk analysis and advising. Previously, he worked as consultant to USAID and CNA Corporation. Between 2010 and 2014, he was adviser to the Colombian minister of defense.

Ramon Ortiz is vice president of Cordillera Applications Group, a firm specialized in security and political risk analysis and advising. Previously, he worked as consultant to USAID and CNA Corporation. Between 2010 and 2014, he was adviser to the Colombian minister of defense.

Urs is a retired American diplomat, having served as U.S. Ambassador to Peru from 2017-2020, and as the U.S. government’s lead commercial aviation negotiator from 2010-2014. He is currently CEO of the Air Transport Consultancy, LCC.

López Brach is an Argentine documentary photographer and visual artist whose work has been exhibited and published worldwide. In 2019 and 2020 he received the Early Career Grant from National Geographic to research the environmental and cultural importance of the largest wetlands in Latin America.

Vermaut is the regional head of illicit trade prevention for Latin America and Canada at Philip Morris International

Rear Admiral Tiongson is the director of operations at U.S. Southern Command

Dr. José Miguel Cruz is the director of research at the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University’s Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs. He is an expert in the area of criminal violence, gangs, police, democratization and public opinion in Latin America.

Schmidt is a journalist, columnist in the digital newspaper El Líbero, and professor at Chile’s Universidad de los Andes

Dietrich was the transportation minister of Argentina from 2015 to 2019.

Pérez Correa is a criminal law researcher and professor at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) and a columnist and board member of newspaper El Universal.

Tommasi is professor of economics and director of the Centro de Estudios para el Desarrollo Humano at Universidad de San Andrés in Argentina and fellow of the Econometric Society.