Authors

Juan Cruz Vieyra is a political scientist with expertise on transparency and anticorruption. He joined the Inter-American Development Bank in 2006 and is currently leading the initiatives InvestmentMap and Transparency in the Extractive Industries. 

Macario Schettino is a professor at the School of Government at Mexico’s Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education. Follow him on Twitter @macariomx.

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.