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Brazil’s political detox

Bolsonaro’s conviction marks a turning point in Brazil, opening debates on polarization, authoritarian legacy, and the need for political detox.
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Religion

The challenges of the UN Women, Peace and Security agenda on its 25th anniversary

UN Resolution 1325 transformed the view of women in conflicts, from passive victims to key actors in peacebuilding. However, its impact remains limited in everyday life.

The evangelical boom slows: the 2022 Census shows a more plural and less predictable Brazil

The 2022 Census shows Brazil’s Catholic decline, slower evangelical growth, and rising Afro-Brazilian and non-religious groups, shaping a plural future.

The shadows of sovereignty in Mexico

In Mexico, sovereignty is proclaimed but undermined by organized crime, U.S. pressure, and political complicities, leaving citizens trapped in the shadows.
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Biodiversity

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

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

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

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

 The rise of authoritarian capitalism

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

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

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

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?

Is democratic consensus in Argentina continuing to...

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

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

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.

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

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.

Zuckerberg and the perception of Brazilians about online content regulation

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?

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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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.
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