Authors

Sam Quinones is a journalist and author of two books about Mexico and Mexican immigration.

Cristina Manzano is the director of esglobal, an online, Spanish-language publication on international relations.

Sara Shahriari is a journalist based in La Paz, Bolivia.

Jorge Derpic is a Bolivian PhD student in the sociology department at the University of Texas at Austin.   

Alfredo Rangel is director of the Centro Seguridad y Democracia at Universidad Sergio Arboleda.  

Aldo Civico is an assistant professor of anthropology and co-founder of the The International Institute for Peace at Rutgers University.  

César Batiz is an investigative journalist at Últimas Noticias in Caracas.  

Sam Mendelson is monitoring and evaluation specialist at Arc Finance. He is the co-author since 2009 of the Microfinance Banana Skins risk survey, and is the current dfid/Citi Development Fellow.  

Sara Rafsky is Americas research associate at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) where she reports on press freedom conditions in the region.  

Mauri König is a special correspondent for the Gazeta do Povo newspaper and the director of the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (ABRAJI).  

Kevin M. Goldberg is an attorney at Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth, P.L.C., where he specializes in first amendment, Freedom of Information Act and intellectual property issues.  

Guillermo Mastrini is director of the Master’s in Cultural Industries program at Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (UNQ).  

Martín Becerra is a professor at the School of Communications at the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (UNQ).