Authors

Gilberto Garcia is a research associate in the Latin America Studies program at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Wendi Muse is second-year doctoral student of Brazilian and Lusophone African history at New York University.

Alejandro Tarre is a Venezuelan writer and journalist. His work has been featured in Slate, El País, Letras Libres, The Huffington Post, The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, and most major newspapers in Venezuela. He has also worked in radio and TV and is a regular contributor to NTN24’s Efecto Naím.

Paula Dupraz-Dobias is a freelance journalist regularly writing about Latin America for international media sources.  Born in New York, Paula has lived and worked in Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Peru, and often covers environmental issues for print and television.

Tom Long is a visiting professor of international relations at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas in Mexico City.

Leda Mora is the owner of Latina Beauty Variedades and a member of Make the Road New York’s Small Businesses United project.

Daniel Cerqueira is senior program officer at the Due Process of Law Foundation. Follow him on Twitter at @dlcerqueira

Carol Pires is a staff writer at Piauí Magazine in Brazil and holds a M.A. in Latin American studies from Columbia University.

Maria Hinojosa is the founder of Futuro Media Group, anchor and executive producer of NPR’s Latino USA, and anchor and executive producer of America by the Numbers with Maria Hinojosa.

Michael Voss is senior Latin America correspondent for CCTV News, living in Havana since 2007.

Inés Aslan is the executive director of the American Friends of the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba.

Fernando Sáez is co-founder and executive director of MalPaso Dance Company as well as director of performing arts programs at the LFC.

Margaret E. Crahan is senior research scholar and director of the Cuba program at the Institute for Latin American Studies, Columbia University.

Allie Fleder is manager to the president and CEO at Americas Society/Council of the Americas.  

Álvaro de Soto led the negotiations that resulted in the 1992 peace accord ending the war in El Salvador.