Nelson Germán Nogales Gonzáles (PhD, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Ecuador) is a postdoctoral and independent researcher. He specializes in democratic institutions and political elites. In recent years, has carried out work, investigating the impacts on vulnerable groups in disaster contexts.

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Jorge Orlando Blanco (PhD, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Quito,) is a full-time professor of Social Sciences and honorary professor of the Master's Degree Education for Peace at the Universidad Distrital, Bogotá. He is member of the Amautas Research Group for Critical Pedagogies and Subjects' Training. He has been Professor of the Escuela Superior de Administración Pública; the Universidad Central del Ecuador; the Universidad de La Salle, the Escuela Superior de Guerra.

Luz Irene Pyke (PhD, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata) is a researcher and a professor at the History Department of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Universidad Nacional de Misiones and a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Social and Human Studies, IESyH (UNaM-CONICET, Argentina). She specializes in political history at sub-national levels for the 19th and 20th centuries, currently developing research lines in municipal politics and taxation, and relations between central and local government levels. 

Lidia Becker (PhD, University of Trier) is professor in the area of Romanic and Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Hannover (Germany). She studied Hispanic and Romanic linguistics at the Universities of Voronezh (Russia), Mainz and Trier (Germany) with stays in Siena (Italy), Lisbon, Buenos Aires and Mexico City. She currently works in the fields of glotopolitics, the sociology of language, the linguistics of discourse and the historiography of linguistics.

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Jochen Kemner is the Scientific Manager of the Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in Guadalajara, Mexico. After completing a master's degree in history, economics, and Spanish and Latin American studies (Bielefeld University), and a state examination for teaching History and Spanish (University of Paderborn) he earned his doctorate History (University Bielefeld) in 2006. He subsequently worked in several post-doc projects and departments at Bielefeld University and was a regular lecturer at the Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe.