Authors

Palacios Chacín is an economist and consultant. He is an economics professor at UCAB and IESA, and a researcher for the Institute of Economic and Social Sciences at UCAB.

Delgado López is a senior fellow at Florida International University’s Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy. She is an expert in Latin American space ecosystems, and frequently teaches, speaks, and advises on the region’s evolving role in the global space sector.

Keller is an associate professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is the author of the award-winning book The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War (University of North Carolina Press, 2025).

Nuñez the seventh president of Florida International University and its first alumna president. A former lieutenant governor of Florida and current chair of Space Florida, she is focused on student success, expanding research and innovation, and advancing FIU among the nation’s top public universities.

Ordoñez Delgado is a Colombian writer, literary translator and editorial assistant at Sundial House. Her translation of 69 38 78, by Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez, is forthcoming in October.

Aizpeolea is a journalist based in Buenos Aires.

Fasolin is a PhD candidate at Vanderbilt University

Recco is an associate researcher and project assistant at the FGV School of International Relations in São Paulo

Meneses is a policy and advocacy officer at the Global Cooperation Institute (GCI)

Cristiani is the head of LATAM investment strategy at J.P. Morgan’s Private Bank

Diaz Gonzalez is a research assistant at the Security Research Hub, leading the Small Arms, Light Weapons (SALW) Dashboard at Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy of Florida International University.

Fiallo is a former diplomat of the Dominican Republic and served as his country’s Ambassador to the OAS.

Vergara is a political scientist and professor in the Universidad del Pacífico’s Department of Social Sciences in Lima, Peru.

Luna is a professor of Political Science and Diamond Brown Chair in Democratic Studies at McGill University, and a researcher at the UC School of Government in Chile.

Urzúa is a of Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland; and International Research Fellow, Clapes-UC.