Josefa Sánchez Contreras is a researcher in the Department of Sociology at the University of Granada with an MSc in Latin American Studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She has published in the Washington Post and the Magazine of the University of Mexico, EstePaís. She collaborates in Ojarasca, a monthly supplement of the Mexican newspaper La Jornada, with articles on energy colonialism, communality, and indigenous movements in Latin America.