Authors

Boris Muñoz is a Venezuelan journalist. His most recent book is Despachos del imperio.  

Álvaro José Mejía Arias is an attorney for the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca (CRIC).  

 Wade H. McMullen, Jr. is a staff attorney for the International Litigation Unit at the RFK Center.

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.