Latin American Research Review

rosario aguilar is assistant professor of political science at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City. She received her PhD from the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the political and social consequences of prejudice related to people’s racial appearance and gender in comparative perspective. She looks at how the process of assimilation into a different society impacts people’s perception of their community’s interests and the stereotypes they hold against each other. Her research mainly focuses on Mexico and the United States, where she has conducted experiments and surveys.

sebastián leandro alioto holds a PhD in history from the Universidad Nacional del Sur (Argentina), where he is part-time assistant professor. He conducts research on different aspects of the history of Indian societies in the southern frontiers of the Spanish empire (and later Argentina and Chile) from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, including interethnic cattle trade, war and uses of violence, medicine exchange, and linguistic intermediation.

marissa l. ambio is a lecturer in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony Brook University and holds a PhD from the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University. She specializes in Latino and Latin American literature and culture, particularly the periodical production of Cuban émigrés in New York during the Ten Years’ War. Her current research focuses on the illustrated periodical and its use of visual culture to promote public education, and its relation to other national institutions with the same purpose, particularly the museum.

cindia arango-lópez is a historian from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Medellín. Currently she is a master’s student in geography at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. She has worked in topics related to settlement and space occupation in the region of Antioquia during the colonial period, and recently with topics about mobility related to the displaced population of Colombia.

dinorah azpuru is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Wichita State University in Kansas and member of the Scientific Support Group of the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) at Vanderbilt University. Her research has focused on contemporary US–Latin America relations, democratization in Latin America, and peace processes in Central America. She is coauthor of the book Construyendo la democracia en sociedades posconflicto: Guatemala y El Salvador en perspectiva comparada (2007). Her work has been published in more than ten countries in the Americas and Europe and has received funding from several organizations.

leonardo sangali barone is a PhD candidate in Public Administration and Government at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV-EAESP). He is also a junior researcher at the Centro de Economia e Política do Setor Público (CEPESP-FGV), at the Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP), and at the Centro de Estudos da [End Page 291] Metrópole (CEM). His main research interests are Brazilian politics, political parties, elections, policy evaluation, quantitative research methods, and statistics.

antonio n. bojanic is professor of economics at Universidad Nuestra Señora de La Paz, in La Paz, Bolivia. He is currently a visiting professor at Tulane University, in New Orleans. His publications include “The Effect of Coca and FDI on the Level of Corruption in Bolivia” (2014), “The Composition of Public Expenditures and Economic Growth in Bolivia” (2013), “Inflación e incertidumbre inflacionaria en Bolivia” (2013), and “The Impact of Financial Development and Trade on the Economic Growth of Bolivia” (2012), among others. He has also published a book, Evolution of the Bolivian Economy: A Time-Series Approach (2013), in which the longest macroeconomic variables data set on Bolivia is presented. He has served as a consultant for multilateral and bilateral aid agencies on several development projects throughout Latin America and Africa.

dexter boniface is the Weddell Chair of the Americas and associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. His research interests include Brazilian politics, democratization and U.S.–Latin America relations. He is coeditor, with Thomas Legler and Sharon F. Lean, of Promoting Democracy in the Americas (2007).

kirk bowman is professor in...