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Venezuela

The first victim of the Trump corollary: Venezuela

María Isabel Puerta Riera
Donald Trump’s electoral victory for a second, nonconsecutive term was seen by Venezuelans—inside and outside the United States—as the last opportunity to achieve a political transition in Venezuela. Once again, the hope of millions of Venezuelans to return to democracy was placed in the hands of the U.S. president. However, Trump had other plans. Winning the Hispanic vote in South Florida is no longer a priority for the Republican Party. In the 2024 electoral campaign, after having been used as a proxy for the Cuban-American bloc in 2020, Venezuelans became the target of continuous attacks within the context of Trump’s...
Venezuela
Venezuela: the chapter that closed, the country that remains
Geopolitics
Chavismo without Maduro: survival, negotiation and power in a new geopolitical scenario
Paraguay

Why Paraguay matters so much to China, Taiwan, and the United States

Henry Large
Paraguay, despite its size and remoteness, has become a key piece in the geopolitical dispute between China, Taiwan, and the United States, as it is the only country in South America that still diplomatically recognizes Taipei.
Imperialism

Against the usurpers: whether dictators or imperialists

Enrique Gomáriz Moraga
The Venezuelan crisis does not mean to choose between the Chavista authoritarian rule and unilateral imperial intervention from the U.S. Both represent unacceptable forms of usurpation of sovereignty and democratic will.
Geopolitics

Chavismo without Maduro: survival, negotiation and power in a new geopolitical scenario

Juan Manuel Trak
Nicolás Maduro's forced exit doesn't spell the end of Chavismo, but rather the beginning of a survival strategy based on internal cohesion, negotiation with the United States, and adaptation to a new geopolitical order.
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AI

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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.

Artificial intelligence in electoral campaigns: How and for what

Jesús Delgado Valery
Artificial intelligence is redefining electoral campaigns: it can either strengthen democracy or become its greatest threat.

From whales to algorithms: why Latin America can lead a nature-inspired AI

Amir Lebdioui  |   Ángel Melguizo   |   Victor Muñoz
Biomimicry could pave the way to more efficient and sustainable AI architectures. Latin America, with 60% of global biodiversity, has strategic advantages to lead this transition, provided it strengthens infrastructure, regulation and regional scientific cooperation.

Democracy

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Good governance is not only about security: the fallacy of the national and the human

Carlos Barrachina
Equating good governance with security—whether national or "human"—is a fallacy that hides the weakness of the state and legitimizes militarization instead of strengthening democracy.

Venezuela: the chapter that closed, the country that remains

Sahasranshu Dash
Maduro’s fall ends an era, but Venezuela’s democratic future remains uncertain amid violence, fragmentation, and foreign intervention.
Brazil

Democracy on Trial

Marjorie Corrêa Marona
Brazilian democracy is not only putting a former president on trial: it is measuring its own capability to withstand and learn from the crisis.
Venezuela

The intricate road to democracy in Venezuela:...

María Isabel Puerta Riera
The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to María Corina Machado recognizes her peaceful struggle for Venezuelan democracy and rekindles hope for change in the country.

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2025: America in realignment

Luis Miguel Santibáñez Suárez
The year 2025 left democracies alive but exhausted and a reconfigured political map. Amid fears and emergencies, the majority chose security. Are we facing a drift toward a punitive order?
Venezuela

Venezuela after Maduro: three questions that will decide the transition

Juliana Montani
A decisive scenario is unfolding in Venezuela where, beyond Maduro, control of weapons, money, and the rules of the game will determine the fate of the democratic transition.
Imperialism

Imperialist recipes besiege Latin American economies

Marcelo Halperín
Trade pressures from the United States, disguised as bilateral agreements, erode multilateralism and deepen Latin America's economic vulnerability.

2025: The end of an era? Where? For whom?

Manuel Alcántara
2025 looms as a pivotal year in which the old order no longer works, but the new has yet to find a place, protagonists, or a shared sense of meaning.
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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.
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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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