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...
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...
Professor of History, University of California, Riverside
Trained broadly as a Latin Americanist historian, I have devoted most of my scholarly career to research on modern Argentina. I made my first trip to the country some thirty years ago, in the midst of the military dictatorship that I am currently studying. I have traveled widely in Latin America and lived in several of the countries for extended periods of time, but I have specialized in Argentine...
Professor at Central University of Venezuela and Director, Social Science Laboratory (LACSO) Caracas, Venezuela
I was born in Valera, Trujillo State, Venezuela, and I was enrolled in basic education in La Salle Schools in Barranquilla, Colombia and in Caracas, Venezuela. I studied sociology at Central University of Venezuela where I obtained a degree in Sociology in 1974. In 1975 I studied in the University of Grenoble in France and was connected with the “Center of Social Ethnology and Psycho-sociolo...
President of the International Bar Association for 2003-2005; former Ambassador/Permanent Representative to the United Nations for Argentina
Ambassador Cardenas--a lawyer, law professor, writer, and diplomat--is from Buenos Aires, Argentina. After graduating from the University of Buenos Aires Law School, he received a Master's degree from the University of Michigan Law School and carried out further studies at Princeton and at the University of California/Berkeley. He spent many years in private law practice in Buenos Aires, and he...
Former Governor of Michoacán, Mexico
ExpertiseMexican and Latin American Migrant Workers' Hometown Associations in the U.S.; immigrant reform in the U.S.; immigration in U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Latin America relations
Director, Security and Citizenship Program, Faculty of Latin American Social Sciences (FLACSO), Chile
In Chile I am an advisor to the Undersecretary of Interior for public security issues where among other things I work on program evaluation and monitoring. In Mexico I am currently finishing a book on the challenges of the City of Mexico Police Department, a work that also draws on my experience as a consultant to the Secretary of Public Security of de City of Mexico and the Chief Advisor of newly...
Chair, FLACSO-Ecuador, Department of Political Studies, Ecuador
I am currently Chair of Political Studies and Director of the Ph.D. program in Social Sciences at the Latin American Faculty for Social Sciences FLACSO-Ecuador. Before joining FLACSO I was Associate Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University, and at Drew University. I got my Ph.D. in sociology from the New School for Social Research. I have published extensively on Latin American populism,...
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...
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...
Trained broadly as a Latin Americanist historian, I have devoted most of my scholarly career to research on modern Argentina. I made my first trip to the country some thirty years ago, in the midst of the military dictatorship that I am currently studying. I have traveled widely in Latin America and lived in several of the countries for extended periods of time, but I have specialized in Argentine...
I was born in Valera, Trujillo State, Venezuela, and I was enrolled in basic education in La Salle Schools in Barranquilla, Colombia and in Caracas, Venezuela. I studied sociology at Central University of Venezuela where I obtained a degree in Sociology in 1974. In 1975 I studied in the University of Grenoble in France and was connected with the “Center of Social Ethnology and Psycho-sociolo...
ExpertiseMexican and Latin American Migrant Workers' Hometown Associations in the U.S.; immigrant reform in the U.S.; immigration in U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Latin America relations
In Chile I am an advisor to the Undersecretary of Interior for public security issues where among other things I work on program evaluation and monitoring. In Mexico I am currently finishing a book on the challenges of the City of Mexico Police Department, a work that also draws on my experience as a consultant to the Secretary of Public Security of de City of Mexico and the Chief Advisor of newly...
I am currently Chair of Political Studies and Director of the Ph.D. program in Social Sciences at the Latin American Faculty for Social Sciences FLACSO-Ecuador. Before joining FLACSO I was Associate Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University, and at Drew University. I got my Ph.D. in sociology from the New School for Social Research. I have published extensively on Latin American populism,...