Authors

Gloria Bustos is the executive director of CONTACTAR.

Ana Margarita González is a researcher for Racial Discrimination Watch.

Gary Hufbauer is the Reginald Jones Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC. Mr. Hufbauer has previously held posts at the U.S. Treasury and Georgetown University. He has written extensively on international trade, investment, and tax issues.

Agustín Cornejo is a Research Assistant at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC. Mr. Cornejo previously served as a trade consultant to the Organization of American States (OAS).

Gema Santamaría is a member of the Transnational Network for the Analysis of Maras at ITAM, specializing in gender and youth violence in Mexico and Central America.

Rafael Fernández de Castro is the Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.  

Penfold is Global Fellow at the Wilson Center and Professor at the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA). He is the author of El País que se Muerde la Cola: Conflicto Político, Reinstitucionalización y Democratización en Venezuela (2023).

Patricia Márquez is a professor at the University of San Diego and a member of the Latin American Social Network.

Cecilia Vaisman also lived in Cuba from 2002-2007 and is a senior producer for Homelands Productions. They are currently Guest Scholars at the University of Notre Dame’s Kellogg Institute.

Jonathan Zittrain is a professor of law at Harvard Law School, and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. He is author of The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It.

Jorge Castañeda served as foreign secretary of Mexico from 2000 to 2003 and is currently Global Distinguished Professor of Politics and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University.

Hernán Galperín is associate professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California and research associate at the Universidad de San Andrés (Argentina).