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Inequality

How much wealth concentration can democracy withstand?

Verónica Paz Arauco
Extreme wealth concentration not only deepens inequality, but also threatens the very survival of democracy by turning political power into a privilege of economic elites.
Inequality
Structural corruption and fragile democracies: the Latin American vicious circle
Democracy
The real threat to democracy is not populism: it is oligarchy
Mexico

When power fragments: Violence, the state, and the limits of strategy

Henry M. Rodríguez
The violence that followed the recent events in Jalisco speaks not only of a criminal organization, but of the state's capacity—and its limits—to manage power vacuums.
Social networks

Social media and minors: The consensus for regulation has reached Latin America

Fabián Echegaray
The debate over social media and childhood is no longer theoretical: in Latin America, a political consensus to regulate platforms is beginning to take shape.
Culture

The Super Bowl and the inverted mirror of selective Latinidad

Gabriel Hidalgo Andrade
The exaltation of a selective Latinidad, celebrated as cultural inclusion, conceals internal hierarchies and deep inequalities in the migratory treatment of different Latin American communities.
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AI

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The Latin American dilemma facing artificial intelligence: adapt or design the future?

José Luis Sampietro Saquicela
Latin America faces a historic crossroads: to adapt to artificial intelligence designed by others, or to create its own technological future with justice and digital sovereignty.

From the gender gap to algorithmic bias: keys to inclusive AI

Cecilia Galván
The revolution of artificial intelligence faces its own mirror: algorithms also inherit the biases and inequalities of the society that creates them. Understanding this is key to building a truly inclusive AI.

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.

Democracy

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Drones and organized crime: The struggle for control of airspace in Latin America

Henry M. Rodríguez
The growing use of drones by organized crime is shifting territorial disputes to low-altitude airspace, challenging the response capacity of states.

It didn’t last long: Peru is once again without a president

Kathy Zegarra
The new presidential removal confirms that in Peru the problem is no longer who governs, but a system that has made instability its norm.
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.
Elections

Mandatory voting in Latin America: between the...

Philipp Rall   |   Lisa Klostermann
Mandatory voting in Latin America reveals a paradox: although the law requires participation, actual turnout depends far more on citizens’ trust than on sanctions.

COP30

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Financing the climate transition: An urgent agenda for global redistribution

Leonardo Stanley
The climate transition demands a profound global redistribution of wealth to close historical gaps and finance a sustainable future.
Cuba

Cuba in the face of the twilight of the Cuban regime

Raudiel F. Peña Barrios
The durability of the regime is largely due to a self-perception of eternity among its elite that is now beginning to face unprecedented limits.
Elections

Elections in Bolivia: from the disappearance of the MAS to the fragmentation of the electorate

Franz Flores
With the main political force absent and no narratives to structure the contest, the subnational elections are unfolding amid scattered candidacies and a disoriented electorate.

Costa Rica’s new political landscape

Carolina Ovares Sánchez
The 2026 elections are reshaping politics in Costa Rica, with the presidency and Congress concentrated in a single party and an electorate mobilized around security and institutional change.
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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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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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