Politics, Business & Culture in the Americas

Benigno Alarcón Deza

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

 

Valeria Vásquez

Vásquez is a senior political risk analyst at Control Risks

Beatriz Borges

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.

Mie Hoejris Dahl

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.

Tamara Taraciuk Broner

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.

Dánae Vílchez

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

 

Ricardo Herrero

Herrero is the executive director of the Cuba Study Group.

 

John McIntire

McIntire is the chairman of the Cuba Emprende Foundation and a director of the Cuba Study Group.

 

Rut Diamint

 Diamint works at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and CONICET. She’s an expert in security issues, democracy, and civil-military relations.

 

Laura Tedesco

Tedesco is a Saint Louis University Political Science Faculty Member. Expertise in Latin American politics, development, democracy, human rights, and the monitoring of political leadership.

Xavier Michon

Michon is the Resident Representative for the United Nations Development Program in Haiti.

Mary Triny Zea

Zea is an investigative reporter based in Panama City with over 15 years of experience. She is an eight-time winner of Panama’s premier national journalism prize.

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