Authors

Wallace is an award-winning journalist and author and an associate professor of journalism at the University of Connecticut

Mazariegos is an editor at AQ.

Romero is senior fellow and co-founder of Miami Strategic Intelligence Institute. He is a retired U.S. Navy and Army intelligence officer with 37 years of combined service.

Marrero is president and founder of Miami Strategic Intelligence Institute. He is a Stanford and Cornell-trained economist and senior geopolitical analyst with expertise in government contracting and Fortune 500 supply chains.

Le Cour Grandmaison is the Head of the Haiti and Caribbean Observatory at the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC), an independent organization based in Geneva, Switzerland.

Barrera Díaz is a bilingual editor and journalist. She covered corporate and financial news across the U.S. and Latin America for Reuters and later served as a Spanish-language team leader and breaking news editor at Bloomberg.

Writt is a research coordinator at JGI and an international relations graduate student at FIU’s Green School

Brown is a research coordinator at JGI and a global affairs graduate student at FIU’s Green School.

Escobari is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She was previously assistant administrator for USAID’s Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean and has served on the White House National Security Council.

Ibáñez is a Chilean journalist covering the politics, economics and cultures of Latin America

Lugo is an international correspondent in Caracas and a former Director of elestímulo.com and former editor-in-chief of El Mundo. He’s been covering Venezuela’s politics and economy for the past three decade for organizations such as Reuters, EFE and America Economía.

Guerra is an Immigration Policy Analyst at the Niskanen Center, where he focuses on immigration and foreign policy, the demographics of irregular migration, and assimilation processes. He writes from Washington.

Battaleme is the Secretary of International Affairs for Defense at Argentina’s Ministry of Defense, a position he has held since December 2023. Prior to this, he served as Academic Director of the Argentine Council for International Relations (CARI) from 2019-23.

Pedraza is a Bolivian political analyst and a former minister of sustainable development. He was a vice-presidential candidate with the center-left Comunidad Ciudadana party in the 2019 and 2020 elections.

Falco is an Italian photographer based in Belém who documents the issues shaping the Amazon.