Politics, Business & Culture in the Americas

Gloria Porras

Porras has served as a Constitutional Court Justice in Guatemala since 2011. She was chief justice for the 2015-2016 and 2020-2021 sessions. She was previously the secretary general of the Public Ministry of Guatemala and occupied several positions within the country’s Institute for Public Criminal Defense.

 

Jacqueline Peschard

Jacqueline Peschard is a Mexican sociologist and professor at UNAM, where she specializes in political and electoral systems. She is a former counselor to the National Electoral Institute.

 

Brenda Brito

Brito is an associate researcher at Imazon.

 

Gerardo Berthin

Berthin is the director of the Latin America and Caribbean programs at Freedom House

Luis Guillermo Solís

Solís served as the 47th president of Costa Rica (2014–2018). He has written extensively on Latin America and co-chaired the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel for the Economic Empowerment of Women. Solís was the interim director and a distinguished visiting professor at the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University from 2018 … Read more

 

Edmund Ruge

Ruge is a freelance journalist based in Rio de Janeiro.

Noah Bullock

Bullock is the executive director of the Cristosal Foundation, an El Salvador-based human rights organization

 

Roman Ortiz

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

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.

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