Authors

He Mu is a food and agriculture investment professional covering China and Latin America

Sergio Guzmán is the director of Colombia Risk Analysis, a political risk consulting firm based in Bogotá. Follow him on Twitter @serguzes and @ColombiaRisk

Carlos Salinas Maldonado is a Nicaraguan journalist and the former editor of Confidencial.com.ni. He lives in Mexico City and writes for the Spanish newspaper El País.

Girish Gupta is the founder and CEO of Data Drum. He worked in Venezuela as a journalist for eight years. 

Berg is director of the Americas Program and head of the Future of Venezuela Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies

Lucas Perelló is a Ph.D. candidate in politics at The New School for Social Research. You can follow him on twitter @lucasperello

Morales is coauthor of The Silver Way  

Gordon is coauthor of The Silver Way  

Cunhai is the founder and director of the Community of Chinese and Latin American Studies as well as director of the Department of Social and Cultural Studies at the Institute of Latin American Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing.  

Yanran Xu is an assistant professor at Renmin University of China and a research fellow of the National Academy of development and Strategy, RUC