Authors

Sicard Jimenez is a policy intern at the Council of the Americas in Washington, DC and a graduate student at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). She was previously an editorial assistant at AQ.

Viales is a freelance journalist based in Yucatán

Daly is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and a Nonresident Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is an expert on war, peace, democracy, crime, and Latin America and author of “Violent Victors: Why Bloodstained Parties Win Postwar Elections” and “Organized Violence After Civil War: The Geography of Recruitment … Read more

Hendrix is chief executive of Hendrix LLC and senior research fellow at DePaul University College of Law. He is a former career diplomat and Coordinator for Foreign Assistance of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) at the U.S. State Department.

Alarcón Deza is the Director of  the Center of Government and Political Studies at Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas.

Vásquez is a senior political risk analyst at Control Risks

Borges is a lawyer, academic, and human rights defender from Venezuela. She is the executive director of the non-profit CEPAZ (The Justice and Peace Center) and an associate professor and researcher at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello.

Dahl is an interdisciplinary social scientist and journalist with Master’s degrees in International Business and Politics, International Management, and Public Administration from Copenhagen Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Dahl is in Caracas, covering the fallout of the election.

Taraciuk Broner is the Inter-American Dialogue’s Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program director. She previously was deputy director of Human Rights Watch’s Americas Division and has covered Venezuela since 2008.

Vílchez is a Nicaraguan journalist specializing in human rights, feminism, politics and migration.

Herrero is the executive director of the Cuba Study Group.