Javier Sánchez Mora. PhD student, Cornell University. His research has focused on the history of autonomous indigenous populations in southern Central America. He has published academic research on the history of the indigenous population of Talamanca, located on what is today the border between Costa Rica and Panama. He has been an editorial assistant for the journals Cuadernos Inter.c.a.mbio sobre Central America y el Caribbean (UCR) and the Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos (UCR).