Authors

Lawrence Gutman has conducted research on governance and foreign investment in Cuba as a Fulbright Hays fellow and Tinker Foundation fellow. He holds an M.A. In Latin American history from the University of Texas at Austin, and is based in New York.

María Fernanda Pérez Arguello, originally from Costa Rica, is an intern at the Americas Society/Council of the Americas and a graduate student at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

Paulina Suárez-Hesketh is a doctoral candidate in cinema studies at New York University.

Humberto Beck is a doctoral candidate in history at Princeton University and editor of Horizontal.mx.

Leopoldo Martínez Nucete is the CEO of the Center for Democracy and Development in the Americas and the Editor at @IQLatino.  

Harold Trinkunas is the Charles W. Robinson Chair and senior fellow and director of the Latin American Initiative at the Brookings Institute.

Antonia E. Stolper is a partner at Shearman & Sterling LLP, where she heads the firm’s Capital Markets—Americas practice group as well as its Latin America and Caribbean group. She is a member of the board of the Council of the Americas and is vice chair of the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice … Read more

Miguel Angel Lara Otaola is an associate analyst at PRIAD.  

Mathieu Tromme is co-founder of the Partnership for Research in International Affairs & Development (PRIAD).  

Eve Crowley is the deputy regional representative for Latin America and the Caribbean at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and FAO’s representative in Chile.  

Jessica Byron is senior lecturer and former head of the department of government at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica.

Rodrigo Páez Montalbán is head of research at the Centro de Investigaciones sobre América Latina y el Caribe at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, in Mexico City.

Andrew F. Cooper is a professor of political science at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, and an associate senior fellow at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research.

Pía Riggirozzi is an associate professor in global politics at the University of Southampton in the U.K.

Jorge Kawas is a researcher, analyst and writer covering security risks in Latin America.