Emelio Betances holds a Ph.D. in Sociology (1989) from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA, and teaches Sociology at Gettysburg College, USA. His publications include State and Society in the Dominican Republic (1995), The Catholic Church and Power Politics in Latin America: The Dominican Case in Comparative Perspectives (2007), and En busca de la ciudadanía: los movimientos sociales y la democratización en la República Dominicana (2016). Carlos Figueroa Ibarra received his Ph.D. in Sociology and teaches at the graduate program of the Institute of Social Sciences at the Benemérita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico. His works include El Proletariado rural en el agro guatemalteco (1980), El recurso del miedo. Ensayo sobre Estado y terror en Guatemala (1980), Paz Tejada: militar y revolucionario (2001), and En el umbral del posneoliberalismo? Izquierda y gobierno en América Latina (2010).