Authors

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

Rachelle Krygier is a special correspondent for the Washington Post in Caracas and a former intern with Americas Quarterly.

Guillermo Jorge is a lawyer with Governance Latam and researcher at the Center for Anti-Corruption Studies at the University of San Andrés in Buenos Aires.

Fernando Basch is a lawyer with Governance Latam and researcher at the Center for Anti-Corruption Studies at the University of San Andrés in Buenos Aires.    

Néstor David Pastor is a freelance writer based in New York.

Olivia Arguinzoni is an editorial intern with Americas Quarterly.

Fernanda Luksic is an associate at AS/COA