Americas Quarterly - Spring 2011

AMERICAS QUARTERLY

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Christopher Sabatini

MANAGING EDITOR

Stephen Handelman

CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Donald Partyka

SENIOR EDITOR

Jason Marczak

EDITORS

Matthew Aho, Mateo Samper

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Nina Agrawal

ASSOCIATE PRODUC TION EDITOR

Richard André

CONTRIBU TING WRITERS

Sophia Costa, Wilda Escarfuller, David Gacs, Melissa Pitts, Edward J. Remache, Guillermo Zubillaga

CONTRIBUTING PHOTO EDITOR

Ramiro Fernandez

CONTRIBU TING AR T DIREC TOR

Cathie Yun

EDITORIAL ASSOCIATES

Ryan Berger, Elana Hazghia, Pia Wallgren

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Juan Luis Serrano-Badrena

EDITORIAL BOARD

Juan Cappello, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Javier Corrales, Ricardo Lagos, Sylvia Maxfield,
Moisés Naím, Patricio Navia, Jorge Pinto, Jeffrey Schott, Edward Schumacher-Matos, M. Victoria Murillo,
Ken Shadlen, Federico Sturzenegger, Ernesto Zedillo

ADVISORY BOARD

Felipe Ardila, Eva Fernández, Davor Luksic-Lederer, Maria Soledad Saieh G., Patrick Sloane

PUBLISHER

Susan Segal

TRANSLATIONS

Benjamin Creed, Alex Ladd

AMERICASQUARTERLY.ORG

MANAGING EDITOR

Jason Marczak

MULTIMEDIA EDITORS & WEB DEVELOPMENT

David Gacs, Bob Gourley, Greg Smith, Carin Zissis

CONTRIBU TING WRITERS

Daniel Altschuler, Kara Andrade, Juan Cruz Díaz, Eric Farnsworth, Liz Harper, Sabrina Karim, Cecilia Lanza, Alex Leff,
Jenny Manrique, Naomi Mapstone, Lorenzo Morales, Janie Hulse Najenson, Paulo Rogério, Arjan Shahani,
Andres Mejia Vergnaud, Julio Rank Wright, Huguette Young

AMERICAS SOCIETY AND COUNCIL OF THE AMERICAS
HONORARY CHAIRMAN
David Rockefeller
CHAIRMAN
Ambassador John Negroponte
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 Tinker Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the GE Foundation.

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