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Colombia

The “ollas” of micro-trafficking in Colombia: A national and transnational security problem

Henry M. Rodríguez

The micro-trafficking hubs in Colombia have evolved into complex criminal nodes that weave together territorial control, illegal economies, and social exploitation, becoming a national and transnational security problem.

Organized Crime

The Drug Trade and the Reason of State

Development

Reducing violence: Latin America’s pending economic policy

Development

Contradictions of development in times of climate crisis

Leonardo Stanley

Brazil’s and Uruguay’s oil bets reveal the tensions between their climate rhetoric and a development model that still prioritizes fossil fuels despite the environmental urgency.

Artificial intelligence

AI and satellite data: An opportunity with major challenges for Latin America

Daniela Moctezuma Ochoa

The combination of artificial intelligence and satellite data opens enormous potential to solve urgent problems in Latin America, but it also exposes the region’s dependency and the technological challenges it faces.

Politics

The people can write dangerous things

Sebastián Godínez Rivera

Democracy faces today a silent danger: the citizens’ support for leaders who, from the ballot box, learn how to dismantle it.

Social violence

Reducing violence: Latin America’s pending economic policy

José Luis Sampietro Saquicela

Indigenous villages

Indigenous women in Latin American politics: Formal democracy, real exclusion

Alondra Servín Velázquez

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

Gemma Galdon-Clavell | Ana Pirela-Rios

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

Jesús Delgado Valery

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

Amir Lebdioui | Ángel Melguizo | Victor Muñoz

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

Reducing violence: Latin America’s pending economic policy

José Luis Sampietro Saquicela

Violence operates as a “hidden tax” that costs Latin America 3.5% of its GDP and chokes investment, productivity, and development, making security the region’s major outstanding economic policy.

Indigenous women in Latin American politics: Formal democracy, real exclusion

Alondra Servín Velázquez

Indigenous women who enter politics in Latin America face systematic intersectional violence which, despite legal advances, continues to be rendered invisible and exposes the gap between formal democracy and real inclusion.

Democracy

Why is organized crime becoming increasingly serious...

Douglas Farah | Pablo Zeballos

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.

Democracy

Revamping democracy: from unfulfilled promises to resilient...

Michelle Muschett

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

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From gold to seats: Illegal mining and Peru’s 2026 elections

José de la Torre Ugarte

Illegal mining bursts onto the scene in Peru's 2026 elections as a political force capable of influencing candidates, laws, and parties in a country where gold carries as much weight as votes.

Policy

Geopolitics of legal knowledge: Latin America’s role in shaping international norms

Richard Carlos Meza

Latin America is moving from being a recipient of norms to becoming an influential producer of legal knowledge that is transforming international law.

International relations

An absent Europe and a divided Latin America: Has the dialogue run out of steam?

María Victoria Alvarez

Europe steps back and Latin America fractures at the 4th EU–CELAC Summit, casting doubt on whether the bi-regional dialogue still has a future.

Who brings the bread home? When pay parity collides with gender stereotypes

Susana Reina

When a woman earns more than her partner, the home can become a mirror of cultural tensions that still bind female success to the weight of guilt and wounded masculinity.

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The hidden face of AI governance: the invisible rules keeping Latin...

Artificial intelligence

Global AI governance moves forward without Latin America, which adopts foreign rules while its voice remains absent from the tables where the digital future is decided.

Jerónimo Giorgi

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Politics

Transitions from a Democratic Government

Sebastián Godínez Rivera

Argentina

Public Sector: Chainsaw or Scissors?

Juliana Montani

Donald Trump

Faced with Trump’s measures, Mexico is weighing retaliatory options

Scott Morgenstern

Politics

What is effective in Mexico may not be effective for the world

Ernesto Hernández Norzagaray

Policy

The political playing field

Manuel Alcántara

Donald Trump

The Return of Trump and Mexico

Luis Miguel Santibáñez Suárez

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Nastassja Rojas Silva

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.

The progressive paradox: Petro’s regressive measures against Venezuelan migration

What’s happening with migrant processing centers in Latin America?

Alejandro García Magos

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).

Challenges to electoral polls in the digital era

Mexico 2024: mediocre candidates and democracy at risk

Ana Paula Tostes

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.

Against the Tide: The EU-Mercosur Agreement and Trump’s Trade Policy

Poison and power

Leonardo Stanley

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.

Contradictions of development in times of climate crisis

COP30: New ideas with old visions of climate finance

Irene Torres

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.

The effects of human error on the health of the planet

A Vision for PAHO/WHO from and for Latin America

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The diversity
in Latin America and the Caribbean

The diversity of genes, species, and ecosystems enhances our well-being by providing food, medicine, protection against environmental extremes, and connections with nature and other people. However, biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation are advancing rapidly worldwide, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean. Many of these topics are explored in the Compendium on Biodiversity in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Health, climate and environment
in Latin America and the Caribbean

The compendium "Health, climate and environment in Latin America and the Caribbean", produced in partnership with the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) and supported by the World Meteorological Organization, explores the complexities of climate and environmental crises in the region. The texts in the book, written by leading experts and academics, address the challenges and risks of the region in the midst of climate and environmental crises.

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VIOLENCE AGAINST SCHOOLS IN BRAZIL
Perspectives on extremism among youth and prevention strategies

This book, co-organized with the Aurora Institute, seeks to raise awareness about violence against schools in Brazil and promote a qualified discussion on the subject. The book gathers 7 articles written by 13 specialists from academia and civil society organizations that analyze from different perspectives the growing violence in schools in Brazil, its roots, modalities and consequences. The articles also present recommendations for actions and public policies to prevent this phenomenon and make school communities part of the solution.

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Impacts of climate change
in Latin America and the Caribbean (2022)

Scientists have been warning about the causes and impacts of climate change for decades. Human activity currently affects most ecosystems and our actions continue to modify the functions of Earth systems globally.

Latinoamerica 21Una región, todas las voces

The “ollas” of micro-trafficking in Colombia: A national and transnational security problem

Contradictions of development in times of climate crisis

AI and satellite data: An opportunity with major challenges for Latin America

The people can write dangerous things

Reducing violence: Latin America’s pending economic policy

Indigenous women in Latin American politics: Formal democracy, real exclusion

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

Artificial intelligence in electoral campaigns: How and for what

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

Reducing violence: Latin America’s pending economic policy

Indigenous women in Latin American politics: Formal democracy, real exclusion

Why is organized crime becoming increasingly serious...

Revamping democracy: from unfulfilled promises to resilient...

From gold to seats: Illegal mining and Peru’s 2026 elections

Geopolitics of legal knowledge: Latin America’s role in shaping international norms

An absent Europe and a divided Latin America: Has the dialogue run out of steam?

Who brings the bread home? When pay parity collides with gender stereotypes

The hidden face of AI governance: the invisible rules keeping Latin...

Transitions from a Democratic Government

Public Sector: Chainsaw or Scissors?

Faced with Trump’s measures, Mexico is weighing retaliatory options

What is effective in Mexico may not be effective for the world

The political playing field

The Return of Trump and Mexico

The progressive paradox: Petro’s regressive measures against Venezuelan migration

What’s happening with migrant processing centers in Latin America?

Challenges to electoral polls in the digital era

Mexico 2024: mediocre candidates and democracy at risk

Against the Tide: The EU-Mercosur Agreement and Trump’s Trade Policy

Poison and power

Contradictions of development in times of climate crisis

COP30: New ideas with old visions of climate finance

The effects of human error on the health of the planet

A Vision for PAHO/WHO from and for Latin America

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