Authors

David Agren is a freelance journalist based in Mexico City.

Luz Mely Reyes is a Venezuelan journalist and cofounder of independent news site Efecto Cocuyo.

Geert Aalbers is a partner at Control Risks, the international risk consultancy, based in São Paulo.

Liliana Merizalde is a photographer based in Colombia.

Benedetti is a co-founder of Docomomo Venezuela (2010). She holds an MA in Art History from Hunter College. 

Flom is visual arts exhibitions and public programs associate at the Americas Society

Rebeca Brown is a programs associate at Americas Society/Council of the Americas

Pedro Freyre is chair of international practice at Akerman, LLP, and a lecturer at Columbia Law School

Vanessa Londoño is a writer and editor from Bogotá based in New York

Nathalie Alvarado coordinates citizen security at the Inter-American Development Bank.

Anna-Cat Brigida is a freelance journalist who covers politics, immigration and human rights in Latin America. She has reported on Guatemala’s historic 2015 elections, violence against women in El Salvador and the Colombian conflict.

Daniel Godinho is the Secretary for Trade at the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade in Brasília

Tucker is a freelance journalist based in Guadalajara, Mexico. 

Gray Newman is adjunct professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He retired in 2014 from Morgan Stanley, where he was a managing director and chief economist for Latin America. This article is adapted from a chapter in a forthcoming book on Brazil edited by Albert Fishlow and Sidney Nakahodo … Read more