Roch Carrier (1937-), decorated Canadian novelist and playwright, Director of the Canada Council for the Arts (1994-97), and National Librarian of Canada (1999-2004).

Improving remittance flows between Latin America and the US involving stronger ties with financial institutions and a favorable money transfer system would subsequently increase consumption, savings, and investment.

Leopoldo Castedo (1915-1999), Spanish-Chilean art historian, scholar, and filmmaker who drove the length of South America twice, co-author of 20-volume Historia de Chile.

Camilo Herrera (1975-), sociólogo y economista colombiano; director fundador del Centro de Estudios Culturales para el Desarrollo Político, Económico y Social, en Bogotá. Ronald Inglehart (1934-), profesor estadounidense de Ciencias Políticas y Director del Instituto de Investigación...

Manuel Burga (1942-), Peruvian sociologist from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, expert in post-colonial Andean Studies, National History Prize (1988).

Ann Yonemura (1947-), North American Senior Associate Curator of Japanese Art at the Freer and Sackler Galleries of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

Jorge Marcone (1959-), Peruvian Associate Professor of Spanish Literature and Latin American Studies at Rutgers University (NJ). Current research and teaching focuses on the environmental imagination in literatures in Spanish and in the Americas.

Salvador Garmendia (1928-2001), escritor venezolano, ganador de los Premios Nacional de Literatura (1970) e Historias Cortas Juan Rulfo (1989), fundador y editor de la revista literaria Sardio.

Daniel Catán (1949-), neo-impressionist Mexican opera composer, works include Rappaccini's Daughter (1991), Florence in the Amazon (1996), Salsipuedes (2004).

Roberto Suro (1951-), periodista estadounidense del Washington Post, ex Director de la Oficina Local del New York Times en Houston, Texas y Director del Centro Hispánico Pew.