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Contributors

Senior Consulting Editor James D. Henderson is professor of international studies at Coastal Carolina University. He is the author of Conservative Thought in Twentieth Century Latin America: The Ideals of Laureano Gómez (1988; Spanish edition Las ideas de Laureano Gómez published in 1985); When Colombia Bled: A History of the Violence in Tolima (1985; Spanish edition Cuando Colombia se desangró, una historia de la Violencia en metrópoli y provincia , 1984); and co-author of A Reference Guide to Latin American History (2000) and Ten Notable Women of Latin America (1978).

Mr. Henderson earned a bachelors degree in history from Centenary College of Louisiana, and a masters degree in history from the University of Arizona. He then spent three years in the Peace Corps, serving in Colombia, before earning his doctorate in Latin American history in 1972 at Texas Christian University.

Charles J. Shields , the author of all eight books in the D ISCOVERING C ENTRAL A MERICA series, lives in Homewood, a suburb of Chicago, with his wife Guadalupe, an elementary- school principal. He has a degree in history from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, and was chairman of the English department and the guidance department at Homewood-Flossmoor High School in Flossmoor, Illinois.