Authors

Álvaro de Soto led the negotiations that resulted in the 1992 peace accord ending the war in El Salvador.

Joydeep Mukherji is managing director in the Sovereign Ratings Group at Standard & Poor’s.

Clem McCartney is an independent research consultant on conflict and community issues at the Club de Madrid.

Katerina Valdivieso is a journalist based in Peru. She currently works at the Universidad del Pacífico and was previously an assistant producer at NPR and writer for Clarín in Argentina.  

Collin Laverty is a leading expert on Cuba and U.S.-Cuba relations. He is founder and president of Cuba Educational Travel. 

Timothy J. Power is a lecturer in Brazilian studies and a fellow of St. Antony’s College at the University of Oxford.  

Alejandro Hope is an independent security analyst and a former official at CISEN.  

Eduardo Guerrero is a partner at Lantia Consultores in Mexico City and an expert in security policy.  

Daniel H. Levine is a professor of political science, emeritus, at the University of Michigan.  

Vilma Hidalgo is a professor of economics at the University of Havana.  

Yaima Doimeadios is a professor of economics at the University of Havana.  

Carmelo Mesa-Lago is a Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics and Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.   

Marcela Prieto is the general director of Foro Semana and former executive director of the Instituto de Ciencia Política—Hernán Echavarría Olózaga in Bogotá, Colombia.

Ricardo Argüello is a professor at the Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá, Colombia.