Latin America Experts
Founder and Senior Scholar, International Institute of Learning for Social Reconciliation, Guatemala
Associate Professor, Department of International Studies, University of Miami
Once I resumed my studies in sociology at the Universidad Católica in Santiago, Chile, (interrupted by the violent military coup of September 11, 1973), I began to focus on military participation in politics during the first half of the twentieth century. My goal was to understand the background to that unexpectedly violent military overthrow and its repressive aftermath. This work resulted i...
Researcher, Department of Public Administration Studies, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Professor-Researcher, International Studies Division, Centro de Investicacion y Docencia Economicas
Alejandro is professor-researcher of the International Studies Division at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) and Academic Coordinator of CIDE’s new campus, in Aguascalientes, Mexico. He is a member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers.Alejandro’s research has focused on indigenous people’s rights and human rights in Mexico. His publications incl...
Dr. Cynthia J. Arnson is director of the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Her most recent work has focused on democratic governance, conflict resolution, citizen security and organized crime, international relations, and U.S. policy in the Western hemisphere. Arnson is a member of the editorial advisory board of Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica, th...
Associate Professor, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Leonardo Avritzer is an associate professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He graduated in political sociology at the New School for Social Research. In 1998 and 2003 he was a visiting scholar at the Department of Political Science at MIT. His Ph.D. dissertation received the New School for Social Research Albert Salomon Dissertation Award. Among Leonardo Avritzer's published books is...
Currently serves on the International Advisory Councils of a number of Brazilian institutions, including the Centro Brasileiro de Relacoes Internacionais (CEBRI), Rio de Janeiro, and on the Editorial Boards of several Brazilian journals, including the Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional (IBRI, Universidade de Brasília).
Leslie Bethell is Emeritus Professor of Latin American History, University of London; Emeritus Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford; Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C; and Visiting Professor, Brazil Institute, King’s College London.He is a former Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London (1987-92) and...