Authors

Beatriz Cristina Jiménez Blasco is a professor of human geography at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Aurora García Ballesteros is a professor of human geography at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Conrad von Igel is executive director of CORFO’s InnovaChile and holds a master’s degree in public administration from Columbia University.

Guy Taylor is a Washington DC-based journalist at The Washington Times and has reported extensively in Latin America.

Maritza Paredes is at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). 

José Carlos Orihuela is at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). 

Rosemary Thorp is emeritus fellow of St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, and former director of Oxford’s Latin American Centre. 

Richard M. Aborn is president of CAAS LLC, a consulting firm, where he works globally with police departments, criminal justice agencies, corporations, and nonprofit organizations developing strategies to reduce and prevent crime. 

Ashley D. Cannon is a criminal justice policy expert with CAAS LLC.

Anthony Bebbington is the Milton P. and Alice C. Higgins Professor of Environment and Society and the director of the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University.

Joseph J. Kolb is a regular contributor to www.foxnews.com and www.foxnewslatino.com. 

Sérgio Teixeira Jr. worked as executive editor and U.S. correspondent for Exame, Brazil’s leading business news magazine.

Miguel Silva is a lawyer, journalist and communications consultant. He is the founder of Galileo 6, a strategic communications, political and crisis management firm based in Bogotá, Colombia. He was chief of staff to former Colombian President César Gaviria, editor at Semana magazine, and a columnist at El Tiempo and El Espectador.

David C. Brotherton is professor and co-chair of sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at CUNY.