Authors

Rodríguez Pueblita is Professor of Business Economics at IPADE Business School in Mexico City and Co-Founder of Quantor Advisors, a financial advisory firm. He holds a PhD in Economics for the University of Pennsylvania.

Ortiz-Mena, PhD, is the CEO of AOM Advisors, Adjunct Professor of International Political Economy at Georgetown University, and Chair of the USMCA Committee at the Mexican Foreign Trade Council (COMCE). He writes from DC.

Marroquín Bitar is an adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He was the inaugural Bersin-Foster Scholar at the Wilson Center. He writes from Washington, DC.

Larratt-Smith is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Security Studies at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP).

Polga-Hecimovich is an associate professor of political science at the U.S. Naval Academy, where he also co-directs the Forum for Latin American Studies.

Martínez is an associate professor of political science at the University of Concepción (Chile) and serves as the alternate director of the Millennium Nucleus on Political Crises in Latin America – CRISPOL

Smith is a research professor of economics at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, and has been a consultant with the World Bank, IDB, OAS, OECD, the Inter-American Foundation and the U.S. Department of State.

Coste is a columnist at Expansión Política and author of Derechos humanos y política en México (2022).

Quiroz is an economist and a public affairs and political risk consultant in the energy sector at Integralia, in Mexico City.

Uzcátegui is a sociologist and the Co-Director of Laboratorio de Paz, an NGO dedicated to promoting democracy and human rights in Venezuela. Previously, he was the General Coordinator of PROVEA, another Caracas-based NGO focused on defending economic, social, and cultural human rights.

Sicard Jimenez is a policy intern at the Council of the Americas in Washington, DC and a graduate student at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). She was previously an editorial assistant at AQ.

Viales is a freelance journalist based in Yucatán