Authors

Ramiro Sebastián Fúnez is a Honduran-American political journalist and activist earning his master’s degree in politics at New York University. Follow him on Twitter at @RamiroSFunez.

Laura Tulchin is a Latin America policy researcher. She spent four years living in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil as a Fulbright scholar and as a Masters candidate in Political Science.

John M. Carey is the Wentworth Professor in the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College. More information about his research on elections and democratic accountability is available athttp://sites.dartmouth.edu/jcarey/.  

Kathryn Lindholm-Leary is professor emerita of child and adolescent development at San Jose State University.  

Kurt J. Nagle is president and CEO of the American Association of Port Authorities.  

Sam Quinones is a journalist and author of two books about Mexico and Mexican immigration.

Cristina Manzano is the director of esglobal, an online, Spanish-language publication on international relations.

Sara Shahriari is a journalist based in La Paz, Bolivia.

Jorge Derpic is a Bolivian PhD student in the sociology department at the University of Texas at Austin.   

Alfredo Rangel is director of the Centro Seguridad y Democracia at Universidad Sergio Arboleda.  

Aldo Civico is an assistant professor of anthropology and co-founder of the The International Institute for Peace at Rutgers University.  

César Batiz is an investigative journalist at Últimas Noticias in Caracas.