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The return of minimal bonds

Amid digital polarization, small communities on social networks reinvent rituals and create minimal emotional bonds that challenge contemporary loneliness.
Health

The hidden face of AI governance: the invisible rules keeping Latin America out of the digital future

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.

COP-30 must address environmental migration

COP-30 faces the urgent challenge of recognizing and protecting populations displaced or trapped by the growing climate crisis.

The Latin American left: Between symbols and ineffectiveness

The Latin American left, triumphant at the ballot box thanks to its discourse of social justice, now faces a rapid decline due to its inability to translate its symbols into results in government.
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AI

The IV EU–CELAC Summit: Pragmatic Alliance or Partnership of Values?

The upcoming EU–CELAC Summit will test whether both regions can turn self-interested pragmatism into an alliance that truly addresses shared priorities.

Voting from behind bars: a democratic debt in Latin America

The situation of voting rights for people deprived of liberty in Latin America reveals a democratic paradox: constitutions promise equality, yet systems continue to deny citizenship to those behind bars.

Feeding the planet without destroying it: The urgency of food system change

A new report warns that our way of producing and eating has already exceeded the planet’s limits, and that only a profound transformation of the food system can prevent feeding the world from remaining a threat to its survival.

Democracy

Mexico and affective polarization: when disagreement becomes political identity

Affective polarization, already deeply rooted in Mexico and the region, is eroding institutions and turning democratic dissent into emotional conflict that hinders dialogue and civic coexistence.

The IV EU–CELAC Summit: Pragmatic Alliance or Partnership of Values?

The upcoming EU–CELAC Summit will test whether both regions can turn self-interested pragmatism into an alliance that truly addresses shared priorities.

 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?

Elections

Europe decides, Mercosur waits: The agreement still pending

After more than two decades of promises and disagreements, the Mercosur–European Union agreement remains bogged down amid European protectionism, French agricultural pressure, and South American impatience.

Voting from behind bars: a democratic debt in Latin America

The situation of voting rights for people deprived of liberty in Latin America reveals a democratic paradox: constitutions promise equality, yet systems continue to deny citizenship to those behind bars.

Feeding the planet without destroying it: The urgency of food system change

A new report warns that our way of producing and eating has already exceeded the planet’s limits, and that only a profound transformation of the food system can prevent feeding the world from remaining a threat to its survival.

The surprise effect as the driving force of Argentine politics

Argentine politics surprises once again: in an unexpected turn, Milei’s ruling party managed to rebuild its strength and consolidate a new hegemony despite the wear of its administration and internal crises.
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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.