Marc Becker teaches Latin American history at Truman State University. He is the editor and translator of Proceedings of the First Latin American Communist Conference, June 1929 (Brill, forthcoming), and author among other works of Contemporary Latin American Revolutions (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2022); The CIA in Ecuador (Duke University Press, 2020); The FBI in Latin America: The Ecuador Files (Duke University Press, 2017), Pachakutik: Indigenous movements and electoral politics in Ecuador (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011), Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador’s Modern Indigenous Movements (Duke, 2008), and Mariátegui and Latin American Marxist Theory (Ohio University, 1993). He is currently working on a book on Philip Agee and the CIA in Ecuador in the early 1960s. https://www.yachana.org/