Authors

José A. Guevara  is executive director of the Mexican Commission for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights

James A. Goldston is executive director of the Open Society Justice Initiative

Rodrigo Riaza is public policy programs associate for Americas Society/Council of the Americas.

Kelsey Jost-Creegan is part of the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School.

Graziano is part of the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School.

Tyler Giannini is part of the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School.

José González Vargas is a university professor in Maracay, Venezuela.

Nicolás Alonso is a reporter for El País based in Washington, D.C. Follow him on Twitter @nicolasalons.

Kiratiana Freelon is a freelance journalist based in Rio de Janeiro. 

Andalusia Knoll Soloff is a freelance journalist based in Mexico City.

Manuel Rueda is a journalist based in Bogotá, Colombia, who has been covering Latin America since 2008.

Cándido Mezúa is an Embera from Panama and Secretary General of the Mesoamerican Alliance for Communities and Forests, representing forest communities and indigenous organizations from Mexico to Panama’s border with Colombia.

Adolfo Chavez is a Takana leader from Bolivia, and represents COICA (Coordinator of the Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin), an umbrella group covering indigenous organizations in all nine countries of the Amazon.

Oliver Griffin is a freelance journalist based in the U.K.