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Colombia

The open veins of Colombia

Sara Meyer
Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) rulings expose FARC kidnappings and “false positives” as state crimes, marking a historic step toward truth and reconciliation.
Armed conflict
The Colombian Catatumbo: Where internal armed conflict and international forced migration converge
Gustavo Petro
Leadership abroad, chaos at home
Social rights

Mothers sustain, fathers disappear: the impunity of child support debtors

Susana Reina
Alimony debtors leave thousands of families unprotected in Latin America. Structural failures and cultural complicity deepen inequality.
Development

A new lost decade for Latin America?

Ximena Roncal Vattuone
ECLAC warns of low growth in Latin America and the Caribbean. Without mobilizing resources, the region risks another lost decade.
UN

The Voice of Latin America at the United Nations General Assembly

Irma Torres Garrido
Latin America raised its voice at the UN General Assembly with a call for peace, climate action, and reform of the multilateral system, reflecting a region determined to play an important role in global governance.
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Biodiversity

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The region’s potential to lead the transition to a sustainable blue economy

Larisse Faroni-Perez
With strong governance and public-private partnerships, Latin America and the Caribbean has the potential to lead the transition to a sustainable blue economy.

Biodiversity and Health: Thinking Broadly and Working Efficiently

Liz Willetts
Biodiversity is an economic, social, and environmental asset of great importance for all countries, encompassing complex interactions from the genetic to the planetary scale.

Mining is turning the Amazon into a desert

Roosevelt García-Villacorta
While scientists struggle to understand how we might terraform Mars, gold mining in the Amazon is creating biological deserts, transforming ecosystems critical to the planet.

Democracy challenges

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 The rise of authoritarian capitalism

Sebastián Godínez Rivera
As democracy erodes, charismatic leaders take advantage of social unrest to consolidate a hybrid model: authoritarian capitalism with a populist face. From Trump to Bukele, passing through Milei and Noboa, a generation emerges that embodies an era where economic stability outweighs democratic values.

Perverted democracies

Luis Pásara
Some Latin American regimes maintain voting rights while eliminating opposition. Are these really democracies, or just perverted versions of them?
Policy

Of worn-out speeches and unauthorized outlets: Reinventing...

Ángel Arellano
Chile welcomed progressive presidents, including Spain’s Pedro Sánchez, under the banner Democracy Always. But is that message consistent with what’s actually happening within each of their countries?
Democracy

Is democratic consensus in Argentina continuing to...

Santiago Leiras
This prolonged election year coexists with growing concern about the course of a democracy that faces a deterioration of the political consensus on which it has been based.

Disinformation

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Electoral evaluation of 2024: more disinformation and less capacity to combat it

Jesús Delgado Valery
Although for years various academic and governmental institutions, think tanks and specialists have been working to design measures to combat disinformation, the mechanisms to influence elections are becoming increasingly sophisticated.
Disinformation

Would “Community Notes” be a real solution to guarantee freedom of expression?

Ana Cláudia Santano
Either because of the lack of transparency of how this model actually works, or due to the type of the data, it is difficult to assume that the “Community Notes” are more democratic than the professional data verification system.
Disinformation

Zuckerberg and the perception of Brazilians about online content regulation

Camilo Aggio  |   Eurico Matos   |   Luciana Veiga
The regulation of digital media has become one of the most urgent topics of public debate in the face of the challenges posed by major transformations in politics and social interactions.

The impact of AI on democratic politics: risk or opportunity?

Camila Cassis  |   Teresa Bastiani   |   Fabián Echegaray
There are many challenges in integrating artificial intelligence into institutional processes and political engineering, and there is no consensus on its advantages. This double reading will condition innovations and fuel demands for external regulation.
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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.
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).
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.
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.
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.

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