Authors

Edwidge Danticat most recently published Claire of the Sea Light.

Junot Díaz most recently published This is How You Lose Her.

Carol Stax Brown is the president and executive director of Community Colleges for International Development, Inc., a 40-year-old non-profit membership organization.  

Indira Palacios-Valladares is assistant professor of political science at Missouri State University. Her research focuses on student movements.  

Timothy DeVoogd is a professor of psychology and director of the Latin American studies program at Cornell University.  

Jesus Velasco is the Joe and Teresa Long Endowed Chair in Social Sciences at Tarleton State University.  

Charles Hale is a professor of anthropology and African diaspora studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Stephen Johnson is director of the Latin America and Caribbean Division at the International Republican Institute and was co-author of the 2012 report “Police Reform in Latin America—Implications for U.S. Policy,” published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. 

Luis Carlos Villegas is the Colombian ambassador to the United States of America. This article was written in collaboration with the Colombian Navy attaché in Washington DC.

Miguel Reyes is a lawyer from the Universidad de los Andes and a contibutor to Semana.com. Follow him on Twitter at @MiguelR281.

María Alejandra Mosquera is a guest blogger for AQ Online and a Colombian journalist who works primarily as an analyst of her country’s political issues.

Simon Whistler is practice leader for political risk consulting in the Americas at Control Risks, the global business risk consultancy.

Adam Wolsky is a contributing blogger to AQ Online. He graduated from Tulane University with a B.A. in Latin American History, and he is currently a Masters student at Columbia University in Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Cementos Progreso S.A. is a Guatemalan company that has been dedicated to the production and commercialization of cement, concrete, lime, and  other construction materials and services for more  than 114 years.