Venezuela

Venezuela: A fragile transition without the diaspora

William A. Clavijo   |   Nancy Arellano
Excluding millions of Venezuelans abroad undermines democratic legitimacy and constrains the country’s institutional and economic reconstruction.
Migration
Is there a way back after the Venezuelan diaspora?
Venezuela
The aftermath of Maduro and the dangers of “rapid” transitions: What Latin America can learn from the Middle East and Asia
War

Why and how does the war in Iran impact Latin America?

Juan Agulló
The war in Iran impacts Latin America by driving up oil prices, fueling inflation, and exposing its dependence on the dollar, thereby weakening its economic and political stability.
Migration

Migration, Gender, and Global Leadership: Challenge or Opportunity for Brazil?

Pía Riggirozzi   |   Natalia Cintra
Brazil emerges as a key actor in global migration governance, despite persistent protection gaps, especially affecting migrant women.
Donald Trump

The Shield of the Americas does not help Latin America

Alberto Maresca
The initiative driven from Washington is aimed more at exporting political alignments and excluding key actors than at building effective regional cooperation.
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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.

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Victory against drug trafficking and the risk of an executive without limits

Ernesto Hernández Norzagaray
Public support for the security offensive opens a window to redefine—and potentially upset—the balance of power in Mexico.

The conflict in the Middle East reopens the global energy dilemma: Fossil dependence or transition

Leonardo Stanley
Market volatility and the risks of supply shortages are pushing major economies to urgently rethink their energy security strategies.
Policy

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?
Democracy

Unfulfilled expectations of democracy in Latin America

Azul Aguiar Aguilar
If the system does not guarantee freedoms, justice, participation, and equality, other actors—often authoritarian and populist—will fill that void.

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“Conversion therapies” as the spearhead of the global offensive against LGBTIQ+ rights

Antonio Rando
Far from being residual practices, these methods persist and expand as a political tool to roll back rights, even where they once seemed consolidated.
Gender

Incomplete Parity

Mariana Caminotti
Gender parity has advanced from quotas to a democratic principle, but it remains fragile, uneven, and still insufficient to guarantee real equality in representation.
Inequality

The day the obvious was “discovered”

María Eugenia Luarca
The world “discovers,” with an official stamp, what was already known: that growth without limits destroys life—and the real novelty is the crack it opens to change the narrative.

Bonds under pressure: A map of emotional inequality

Constanza Cilley
In Argentina today, the quality of relationships is increasingly conditioned by time, resources, and stage of life, revealing a growing emotional inequality.
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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.
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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.
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