The search for a capable state in Africa and Latin America

Africa and Latin America share common challenges: building capable states that can turn economic growth into jobs and more broadly shared prosperity.
Trade
Global South

What did Latin American representatives propose at the UN General Assembly?

Organized crime, UN reform, and artificial intelligence were at the heart of Latin America’s main proposals before the United Nations General Assembly.

How many years of our lives does justice owe us?

Justice is also measured in time: when a judgment takes years, waiting can become a form of injustice. Artificial intelligence can help reduce that wait without sacrificing safeguards.

From Liberation Theology to Pentecostalism: religion and the construction of the Brazilian right

Religion has been central to Brazil’s political transformation, from the Liberation Theology that helped propel the left to the rise of Pentecostalism as a conservative force.
spot_img

AI

Artificial intelligence: new job opportunities for women

Artificial intelligence may threaten existing roles for women, but it simultaneously opens up a wealth of new career paths, so long as upskilling and workplace inclusion remain central to the transition

The Pope’s Encyclical on Artificial Intelligence: The Risks the Church Sees

Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical on artificial intelligence warns of the risks of disinformation, job displacement, and the concentration of technological power in the hands of a few.

The end of anonymity: AI lowers the price of surveillance and makes freedom more expensive

Artificial intelligence is dismantling digital anonymity and turning mass surveillance into an increasingly inexpensive tool, while exercising political freedom is becoming more costly and risky.

Democracy

The myth of best practices and the Chinese model

China’s model challenges the Western institutional recipe and shows how adaptation and improvisation can drive development.

Evangelize, civilize, democratize, or land, gold and oil?

Behind the justifications for military interventions by the great powers, economic and strategic interests often lie hidden, with oil being one of their main drivers.

Hostages or strategists? Party discourse in the...

In the context of the attention economy, recommendation systems interpret narrative moderation as a lack of relevance. What do political parties competing in contexts of extreme polarization do to make themselves heard?

After the World Cup: The pitch also...

The World Cup reflected an increasingly multipolar world and offered a lesson for Latin America: autonomy and development require strong institutions, sustained investment, and a strategy of its own.

COP30

The citizen who does not appear in digital statistics

A service can show good results while leaving out those who are unable to get started. Evaluation must also look at the other side of the screen.

Trump and the use of visas as a diplomatic weapon

Trump has turned visas into a tool of diplomatic pressure to influence decisions and strengthen U.S. influence in Latin America.

A new test for Brazil’s polarized democracy

Brazil’s elections will test the ability of a polarized democracy to safeguard electoral integrity and sustain public trust in its institutions.

The geopolitics ahead: beyond Greenland and the Falkland Islands

Recent, rapid strategic moves suggest that something profound may be changing in the West’s strategic organization.
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

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.