Authors

María Teresa Escobar is a freelance journalist based in Quito.

Fernández is an anthropologist and journalist based in Guatemala City. She has written for Prensa Libre, elPeriódico, Nuestro Diario and Soy502.

Kloppe-Santamaría is a Nicaraguan-born sociologist and historian specializing in violence, crime, and gender in Mexico and Central America. She is an associate research professor of Latin American History at George Washington University and a lecturer of Sociology at University College Cork. Author of In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in … Read more

Luna is an economist from UNAM with an M.Sc and Ph.D. in economics from the University of London. He was chief economist at Citibanamex between 2005 and 2020. He’s now Grupo Financiero Mifel’s chief economist. His views and opinions are his own.

González is a researcher at Paris Diderot University

Lizarazo is a senior analyst at Control Risks, based in Bogotá

Chang is a political consultant and professor at the Universidad del Valle 

Bledsoe is a program coordinator in the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Sampó is a researcher from the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (Conicet), Argentina. She is also one of the coordinators of the Center for Studies on Transnational Organized Crime (CeCOT), International Relations Institute (IRI), University of La Plata (UNLP), Argentina.

Colombo is an analyst focused on Latin America and EU relations.

França is the coordinator of the Racial Studies Center at Insper