Authors

Lisa Blackmore is a lecturer in art history and interdisciplinary studies at the University of Essex, UK. She is author of Spectacular Modernity: Dictatorship, Space and Visuality in Venezuela 1948-1958 (2017) and co-editor of a forthcoming on volume on culture and politics in contemporary Venezuela. She lived in Venezuela from 2005-2013, where she taught at … Read more

Celeste Olalquiaga is a cultural historian. She has published Megalopolis: Contemporary Cultural Sensibilities (1992) and The Artificial Kingdom: A Treasury of the Kitsch Experience (1998), which have been translated to several languages, and is the recipient of Guggenheim and Rockefeller awards. In 2013, Celeste founded PROYECTO HELICOIDE to make visible the extraordinary modern ruin of … Read more

Elisangela Mendonça is a Brazilian journalist.

María Victoria Llorente is the executive director at Fundación Ideas para la Paz. 

Camilo Enciso is a former transparency secretary of Colombia and current director of the International Institute on Anti-corruption Studies in Bogotá.

Fernando Carrillo is the Inspector General of Colombia. 

Moira Birss is the media and communications manager at Amazon Watch.

Vinod Sreeharsha is a journalist based in Rio de Janeiro.

Jill Langlois is a journalist based in Rio de Janeiro

William M. LeoGrande is Professor of Government at American University in Washington, DC, and co-author with Peter Kornbluh of Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana (University of North Carolina Press, 2015).

Victor Herrera has been covering Latin America’s financial markets for 35 years. He recently concluded a 25 year career at S&P Global Ratings, where he was the Regional Manager for northern Latin America. He is based in Mexico City.

Diego Senior is an independent journalist and media consultant in New York. He has worked with Colombian media for over 13 years, covering mostly the United Nations and U.S.-LatAm relations. He now collaborates with NatGeo’s Explorer and NY1 Noticias in New York, amongst other publications.

Adriana Erthal Abdenur is a fellow at the Instituto Igarapé, a think and do tank in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her research and policy work focus on the role of rising powers, especially the BRICS countries, in international cooperation. She has a PhD from Princeton and a BA from Harvard.