Authors

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.

Bret Rosen has 20 years of experience in the Latin America financial markets, at both leading investment banks such as Goldman Sachs, and asset managers including Trust Company of the West. He has lived and worked in both Argentina and Brazil.

Dr. Claudia Escobar Mejía is a former magistrate of the Court of Appeals of Guatemala.  She is now a legal specialist on anti-corruption and international consultant in the justice sector, as well as a board member of Integrity Initiatives International.  

Luis Barrueto is a journalist and political analyst from Guatemala. He hosts the radio talk show Radiografía Política and is a columnist at Plaza Pública. He specializes in the areas of international trade and public policy, and collaborates with civil society group JusticiaYA.

Gregory Scruggs is a freelance journalist.

Daniel Gallas is a journalist based in São Paulo

Piñeros is a freelance journalist and photographer based in Colombia.

Jesús Aguais is a human rights activist and the founder of AID FOR AIDS International.

Fábio Zanini is the politics editor of Brazilian newspaper Folha de S. Paulo and the author of “Euforia e Fracasso do Brasil Grande” (Euphoria and Failure of Great Brazil)

Andrés Rabellino is an editorial intern for Americas Quarterly

Michael Clemens is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and a research fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics. He is the author of the forthcoming book, The Walls of Nations.