Authors

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).  

Michèle Montas-Dominique is a Haitian journalist and former spokeswoman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.  

Tim Padgett is an American journalist and WRLN-Miami Herald News’ Americas correspondent. He has covered Latin America for almost 25 years.  

Ricardo Uceda is a Peruvian investigative journalist and executive director of the Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (IPYS).  

Jorge Ramos is a Mexican journalist and the anchorman for Noticiero Univision since 1986.  

Carlos Dada is a Salvadoran journalist and the founder and director of the news website El Faro.  

Wilda Escarfuller and Adam Frankel are contributing bloggers to AQ Online. Wilda is editorial associate of Americas Quarterly and policy associate at Americas Society/Council of the Americas. Adam is a human rights researcher specializing in race, gender and sexuality issues in Latin America. Follow them on Twitter at @Wilda_E and @AdamJFrankel.

Caitlin Andrews is a Ph.D. student at the University of Texas at Austin.

Katie Micklethwaite is an analyst for Control Risks, a global risk consultancy.

Joaquín Vallejo is Political and Projects officer at the British Embassy in Ecuador. His views do not represent those of the British Government.

Dr. Thomas W. O’Donnell is an academic and analyst of the role of global oil and gas markets in geopolitics and development – inlcuding Latin America, OPEC-Middle East, the U.S., EU, Russia and China. He blogs at GlobalBarrel.com