Authors

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.

Lucía Wei He is a reporter for RED/ACCIÓN based in Buenos Aires

Johnny Wright Sol is a Congressman for ARENA in El Salvador.

Cristiane Passos, a social anthropologist, is communications director of the National Secretariat of Land Pastoral Commission (CPT). 

Anya Ventura is a writer based in Iowa City, Iowa

Manuel Betancourt is a New York City-based writer and editor. 

Isabel Cavelier is senior adviser at Mission2020, and co-founder and co-director of Transforma.

Arturo Lezcano has covered Latin America for 12 years as a freelance journalist. He is currently based in Rio de Janeiro.