Ideologies

The wild years of (left-wing) populism

Alberto Ruiz Méndez
Did Maduro’s fall put an end to the left-wing populist cycle and mark a historic turning point for the Latin American left?
Venezuela
Chavismo without Maduro: survival, negotiation and power in a new geopolitical scenario
International relations

The Geopolitics of the Self

Manuel Alcántara
In the era of the “geopolitics of the self,” global power ceases to be structured around rules and stable alliances and instead revolves around the personalistic, transactional, and self-referential leadership of Donald Trump.
Ecuador

Ecuador’s late insertion into the structure of global organized crime

Matías Abad Merchán
In a context of profound state weaknesses, Ecuador has ceased to be a marginal actor and has instead become fully—and belatedly—integrated into the dynamics of transnational organized crime.
Communication

Political communication, moral panic, and the Trumpian grammar

Denise Cogo   |   Rafael Alberico Chaves
Trumpism shows how contemporary political communication turns fear and moral panic into a grammar of power sustained by emotions, digital platforms, and permanent crises.
spot_img

AI

Read more articles about AI
Read more

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

Read more articles about Democracy
Read more

Between spectacle and the cultural frontier: Politics and identity in the Super Bowl LX halftime show

Luis Miguel Santibáñez Suárez
The Super Bowl show confirmed that, in global popular culture, spectacle is never neutral: language, identity, and political power are contested even on the most massive stage of entertainment.

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.
Democracy

Latin America 2025: protest voting amid fragmentation...

Flavia Freidenberg
In a 2025 marked by punitive polls, fragmented systems, and democracies under pressure, Latin America confirmed that voting remains an instrument of change, but no longer a guarantee of stability or democratic strengthening.
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.

COP30

See More
See More articles about COP30

When states clash, crime coordinates: Ecuador versus Colombia

José Luis Sampietro Saquicela
In a scenario where crime is organized in networks, the lack of coordination between Ecuador and Colombia only makes what is legal more costly and strengthens what is illegal.
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.

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.
spot_img

Publisher recommends

Publisher recommends

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

The most read articles

Our columnists

SEE ALL COLUMNISTS

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.