Authors

Martínez is an associate professor of political science at the University of Concepción (Chile) and serves as the alternate director of the Millennium Nucleus on Political Crises in Latin America – CRISPOL

Smith is a research professor of economics at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, and has been a consultant with the World Bank, IDB, OAS, OECD, the Inter-American Foundation and the U.S. Department of State.

Coste is a columnist at Expansión Política and author of Derechos humanos y política en México (2022).

Quiroz is an economist and a public affairs and political risk consultant in the energy sector at Integralia, in Mexico City.

Uzcátegui is a sociologist and the Co-Director of Laboratorio de Paz, an NGO dedicated to promoting democracy and human rights in Venezuela. Previously, he was the General Coordinator of PROVEA, another Caracas-based NGO focused on defending economic, social, and cultural human rights.

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.