Americas Q U A R T E R LY
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Christopher Sabatini
Managing Editor
Stephen Handelman
SEnior EditorS
Jason Marczak, Juan Cruz Díaz, Mateo Samper
CrEatiVE dirECtor
Donald Partyka
aSSoCiatE ProdUCtion Editor
Evianna Cruz
aSSoCiatE Editor
Danielle Renwick
EditoriaL aSSoCiatES
Matthew Aho, Elliot Carvalho, Patricia Carvalho, Mariella Chilmaza, Carlos Díaz Rueda,
Cameron Duncan, Rachel Greenwald, Carlos Macias, Alejandra Mejia, Caitlin Miner-LeGrand,
Hannah O’Connell, Diana Rodriguez, Leah Serinsky, Lance Steagall, Julia Uribe, Guillermo Zubillaga
EditoriaL aSSiStant
Juan Luis Serrano-Badrena
ContribUting art dirECtor
Cathie Yun
EditoriaL board
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Javier Corrales, Ricardo Lagos, Sylvia Maxfield,
Moisés Naím, Patricio Navia, Jorge Pinto, Jeffrey Schott, Edward Schumacher-Matos, Ken Shadlen,
Federico Sturzenegger, Ernesto Zedillo
adViSory board
Felipe Ardila, Eva Fernández, Davor Luksic-Lederer,
Maria Soledad Saieh G., Patrick Sloane
PUbLiSHEr
Susan Segal
adVErtiSing
Lisa Turner, LMT Media Partners
Managing Editor/ aMEriCaSqUartErLy.org
Jason Marczak
WEb dEVELoPMEnt
Bob Gourley, Greg Smith, Carin Zissis
ContribUting WritErS/ aMEriCaSqUartErLy.org
Antonieta Cádiz, Liliana Colanzi, Liz Harper, Naomi Mapstone
Anastasia Moloney, Dan Rosenheck, Huguette Young
AmericAs society And council of the AmericAs
Honorary CHairMan
David Rockefeller
CHairMan
William Rhodes
PrESidEnt and CEo
Susan Segal
CHiEF FinanCiaL oFFiCEr
Peter Reilly
ViCE PrESidEnt,
CoUnCiL oF tHE aMEriCaS, WaSHington
Eric Farnsworth
PUbLiC PoLiCy PrograMS
Ragnhild Melzi
Americas Quarterly: The Policy Journal for Our Hemisphere (ISSN 1936-797X) is published by the Americas Society and Council of the Americas
(AS/COA) and is supported in part by grants from the Foundation Open Society Institute and the Tinker Foundation.
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spring 2009
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