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Bukele and indefinite reelection: a point of no return

Bukele's indefinite reelection marks a dangerous turning point for El Salvador, masked by popularity and a fleeting sense of security.
Autocracy

Sheinbaum and Trump: searching for middle ground

Caught between cooperation and sovereignty, Sheinbaum must decide how far to yield to Trump’s agenda without undermining her political base.

Law from the ground up: Latin America’s model of Environmental Law Clinics

A growing network of Environmental Law Clinics in Latin America is training future lawyers by combining climate justice, community work, and legal innovation.

The ranking of lies and the vice presidency

The vice presidency in Latin America often leads to division, not unity. Is it time to eliminate it altogether? Chile and Mexico may point the way.
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Biodiversity

Biodiversity and Health: Thinking Broadly and Working Efficiently

Biodiversity is an economic, social, and environmental asset of great importance for all countries, encompassing complex interactions from the genetic to the planetary scale.

Mining is turning the Amazon into a desert

Imagine an arid, desolate and barren landscape, this is what the planet Mars looks like. For many scientists, and other entrepreneurs like Elon Musk, Mars could, in the future and with a lot of effort, be terraformed, as the action of modifying a hostile environment to make it habitable for human beings is called. Now, what if I told you that, right now, we are turning our Amazon, through an activity like gold mining, into a Martian landscape? This is happening at great speed at this very moment. The Amazon, the lungs of the world, is turning into a desert Gold mining in the Amazon is not new, but its environmental impact has intensified in the last two decades. Large areas of the Amazon rainforest have been deforested, and soils have been destroyed due to mining, leaving behind a devastated landscape that resembles a desert. This reverse terraforming process not only...

Why are Indigenous lands key to conserving biodiversity and mitigating climate change?

True inclusion implies respecting the diversity of visions and allowing Indigenous peoples to be the protagonists of their own development, without imposing conservation models.

Democracy challenges

How to Destroy Trust in Elections

Elections legitimize governments, but behind them are the technical procedures without which no election can be considered democratic.

The 2026 elections and democratic memory in Brazil and the United States

No scenario is more detrimental to the pursuit of economic equity, social justice, human rights, and the strengthening of democracy in Brazil than the potential return of the far right to power.

Polarization in Latin America: Black Swan or...

Latin America continues to grapple with polarization that, far from being new, has become a consolidated trend. Undoing what has developed over time may be one of the great challenges of our era.

Proliferation of presidential candidates in Latin America:...

The inflation of candidacies does not only respond to the desire for leadership or commitment to a country's project. Many nominations are political and media positioning strategies.

Disinformation

Electoral evaluation of 2024: more disinformation and less capacity to combat it

Although for years various academic and governmental institutions, think tanks and specialists have been working to design measures to combat disinformation, the mechanisms to influence elections are becoming increasingly sophisticated.

Would “Community Notes” be a real solution to guarantee freedom of expression?

Either because of the lack of transparency of how this model actually works, or due to the type of the data, it is difficult to assume that the “Community Notes” are more democratic than the professional data verification system.

Zuckerberg and the perception of Brazilians about online content regulation

The regulation of digital media has become one of the most urgent topics of public debate in the face of the challenges posed by major transformations in politics and social interactions.

The impact of AI on democratic politics: risk or opportunity?

There are many challenges in integrating artificial intelligence into institutional processes and political engineering, and there is no consensus on its advantages. This double reading will condition innovations and fuel demands for external regulation.
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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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