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More productivity with less employment? The labor challenge facing Latin America

While in developed countries productivity drives high-quality employment, in Latin America technological progress is increasing efficiency at the cost of greater informality and less formal employment.
Panama
Labor Market

Do not shoot at science

Attacks on science are growing in Argentina and worldwide. Why defending knowledge, dignity, and social purpose in research is vital for democracy and the future.

The decline of Trump’s anti-immigrant policies

Initial support for Trump's anti-immigrant policy is beginning to erode, as U.S. public opinion accepts border control but rejects methods that violate human rights and dignity.

A strategic opportunity: The final stretch of the Mercosur–European Union agreement

In its decisive stage, the agreement between Mercosur and the EU is emerging as a historic opportunity to enhance competitiveness, modernize institutions, and reposition the South American bloc geopolitically.
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AI

Artificial Intelligence with real biases: New challenges for gender equality in Latin America and the Caribbean

In a region marked by deep inequalities, artificial intelligence reflects and amplifies society’s gender biases, turning a technological challenge into a human development problem.

Artificial intelligence in electoral campaigns: How and for what

Artificial intelligence is redefining electoral campaigns: it can either strengthen democracy or become its greatest threat.

From whales to algorithms: why Latin America can lead a nature-inspired AI

Biomimicry could pave the way to more efficient and sustainable AI architectures. Latin America, with 60% of global biodiversity, has strategic advantages to lead this transition, provided it strengthens infrastructure, regulation and regional scientific cooperation.

Democracy

From Boric to Kast: expectations, realities, and the limits of profound change

The decisive victory of Kast reflects the electorate’s shift toward a demand for order and certainty, highlighting the limits of political promises and the real capabilities of governance.

If the narrative is not enough, it is time to review governance

The citizens’ rejection of Noboa’s consultation laid bare an uncomfortable truth: without concrete results in security, health, and the economy, no political narrative can be sustained.

Why is organized crime becoming increasingly serious...

For decades, drug cartels have wielded profound political influence in Latin America. With the evolution and diversification of new illicit markets that move trillions of dollars, the corrupting capacity of criminal networks challenges the survival of democratic institutions.

Revamping democracy: from unfulfilled promises to resilient...

On International Democracy Day, Latin America faces the challenge of revamping a system worn down by inequality and misinformation, but one that remains essential for resilient and equitable human development.

COP30

Mexico: the crisis of the countryside

The protests by producers and transporters highlight a structural crisis in the Mexican countryside, marked by insecurity, food dependency, and the absence of a long-term agricultural policy.

COP30: Who has access to the information needed to confront the climate crisis?

Held in the Amazon, COP30 placed at the center of the climate debate a key and long-postponed question: inequality in access to information as a factor that deepens the vulnerability of the communities most affected by the climate crisis.

María Corina Machado: a controversial Nobel Peace Prize

The granting of the Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado reopens the debate over the coherence between her democratic struggle and a confrontational political discourse aligned with the far right and international interventionism.

Chile: the end of the dictatorship–democracy cleavage

The 2025 presidential election confirms a profound political realignment in Chile: the historic dictatorship–democracy cleavage no longer structures voting behavior, having been displaced by a new axis of conflict that emerged from the cycle opened in 2019.
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Professor at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá) and PhD candidate in Law at Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Specializing in migration movements, gender studies and Venezuelan politics.
Political scientist and economist. PhD from the University of Toronto. Senior Editor at Global Brief Magazine. Social Research Design Specialist at RIWI Corp. (Real-Time Interactive World-Wide Intelligence).
Political scientist. Professor and researcher at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). PhD in Political Science from IUPERJ (current IESP / UERJ). Researcher at the Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI) - Núcleo Europa.
Associate Researcher at the Center for the Study of State and Society - CEDES (Buenos Aires). Author of "Latin America Global Insertion, Energy Transition, and Sustainable Development", Cambridge University Press, 2020.
PhD in Health Promotion. Member of the International Advisory Board of The Lancet Global Health and member of the Steering Committee of the Thematic Working Group on Health Systems in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings of Health Systems Global Health.