Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy

Members

• César Gaviria Trujillo, president of Colombia and secretary general of the Organization of American States - co-president of LAI
• Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, president of Mexico and professor and director of the Center of Globalization Studies at Yale University – co-president of LAI
• Fernando Henrique Cardoso, president of Brazil and professor at the University of São Paulo – co-president of LAI
• Ana María Romero de Campero, reporter, editor, chronicler, international correspondent, columnist and director of the newspaper Presencia for seven years; 30-year career as journalist
• General Alberto Cardoso, Chief Institutional Cabinet Minister of the presidency of Brazil.
• Antanas Mockus, president of Corporación Visionários por Colômbia, a non-profit, ex-dean of the National University of Colombia and ex-mayor of Bogotá
• Diego García Sayán, judge and vice-president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, minister of justice in Peru and, later, minister of foreign relations, Peru
• Enrique Krauze, teacher; research at the Colégio de México and St Antony's College, Oxford; worked for the magazine Vuelta
• Enrique Santos Calderón, director, columnist of the Sunday edition of the newspaper El Tiempo; co-founded and directed the weekly magazine Alternativa with his colleague Gabriel García Márquez
• João Roberto Marinho, vice-president of the administration council and editorial vice-president of the Globo Organizations
• Mario Vargas Llosa, writer, 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature, column "Piedra de Toque" for El País
• Moisés Naím, editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine based in Washington, D.C.; minister of trade and industry of Venezuela and then executive director of the World Bank; syndicated Sunday columns for El País
• Patricia Llerena, Chamber Judge of the Oral Criminal Tribunal in the city of Buenos Aires and former assistant manager of the Central Bank of the Republic of Argentina
• Paulo Coelho, writer, according to Reuters, among the three best known and most successful in the world
• Sergio Ramírez, writer and part of the National Council of Government and later, vice-president, of Nicaragua
• Sonia Picado Sotela, member of the Human Security Advisory Committee of the UN; president of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights ; president of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture ; Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica ; judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Ambassador of Costa Rica in the United States.
• Tomás Eloy Martínez, professor at Rutgers University and director of the Latin American Studies program; writer in Argentina until 1975, thereafter in exile

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