Protecting our People: Achievements in Citizen Security – #HSC2023

Originally took place on Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Panel – Protecting our People: Achievements in Citizen Security – with Samantha Chaitram, Fellow, Caribbean Policy Consortium, Sandro Torres Avelar, Brazil, Secretary of Public Security for the Federal District, María Paula Romo Rodríguez, Former Minister of Government of Ecuador, Jacqueline Charles, Journalist, the Miami Herald, and moderated by Ryan Berg, Director of Americas Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Samantha Chaitram is a Fellow with the Caribbean Policy Consortium, Research Manager at the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service, an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of the West Indies. She is also an External Consultant with the Migration Unit, Inter-American Development Bank. She is the author of American Foreign Policy in the English-speaking Caribbean: From the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Century. She is both a Fulbright alumna and an alumna of the State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program on U.S. Foreign Policy.

Sandro Torres Avelar is the former Federal Police Chief, having been appointed in 1999. He has held the positions of director of the Federal Penitentiary System at the Ministry of Justice; Delegate for combating organized crime at the Federal Police Superintendence in the Federal District; general coordinator of Recruitment and Selection at the National Police Academy; and a member of the Commission for the Reform of the Code of Criminal Procedure in the Federal Senate. He has also served as a professor of human rights at the National Academy of Federal Police, and President of the Federal Police Foundation.

María Paula Romo Rodríguez is a former Minister of Government of Ecuador, 2018-2020. She was a member of the Constituent Assembly that crafted Ecuador’s current Constitution between 2007 and 2008. She later won a seat at the National Assembly of Ecuador for the period of 2009–2013. She is an Ecuadorian lawyer with master’s degree in government and public administration. She has also served as a Dean of Jurisprudence and Social Sciences of the International University of Ecuador.

Jacqueline Charles is a Foreign Correspondent for the Miami Herald. A Pulitzer Prize finalist and Emmy Award winner, she is responsible for reporting on Haiti and the English-speaking Caribbean. She began her journalism career at the Herald as a 14-year-old high school intern and was hired upon graduation from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As the Herald’s Haiti correspondent, Jacqueline was again on the front lines for the (second) return of Aristide, and was the first journalist to inform readers of his arrival to the island-nation, just days before Haiti’s historic 2011 presidential runoff.

Ryan Berg is Director of the Americas Program and head of the Future of
Venezuela Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is also an adjunct professor at the Catholic University of America and visiting research fellow at the University of Oxford’s Changing Character of War Programme. His research focuses on U.S.-Latin America relations, authoritarian regimes, armed conflict, strategic competition, and trade and development issues, as well as Latin America’s criminal groups and the region’s governance and security challenges. Previously, he was a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he helped lead its Latin America Studies Program.

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