Omar Gómez Trejo received his law degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and holds a Master's Degree from FLACSO. He worked for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights for 12 years in Mexico and Central America. He was the Executive Secretary of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI...
Charles Hale is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Director of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. He has received research fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is author of Resistance and Contradiction: Miskitu Indians and the Nicaraguan State, 1894-1987 (1994) and co-editor (with Jeffrey Gould and Darío Euraque) of Memorias del Mestizaje: Cultura y Política en Centroamérica, 1920 al Presente (forthcoming)....