Women

Women: Equal in discourse, vulnerable in everyday life

Constanza Cilley
In Latin America, formal advances in gender equality coexist with persistent violence that continues to limit the autonomy, safety, and everyday lives of millions of women.
Inequality
Bonds under pressure: A map of emotional inequality
Gender
Who brings the bread home? When pay parity collides with gender stereotypes
Migration

Remittances sustain economies, but empty households

José Luis Sampietro Saquicela
While remittances break records and ease the economies of many countries in the region, millions of Latin American households are being reshaped around an absence that leaves social, educational, and emotional marks.
Subnational elections

Subnational election in Bolivia: The new political reality

Salvador Romero Ballivian
With a dispersed electoral map and no dominant political axis, the elections revealed a more fragmented, territorialized dynamic that is difficult to frame within traditional national-level interpretations.
Society

To Hell and Back

Fabián Bosoer
An urgent rereading that reveals how chained crises and extreme leadership can drag entire societies into catastrophe.
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AI

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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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Latin America’s Cities See the Symptoms but Miss the Causes

José Caballero
Latin Americans recognize urgent problems but fail to prioritize the structural solutions needed to solve them.

The dragon’s speed: When today’s haste becomes tomorrow’s mortgage

Constanza Mazzina
The urgency to carry out large-scale projects without rigorous oversight opens the door to costly decisions that compromise long-term development and sovereignty.
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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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.
Gender

Gender equality: The end of history?

Fabián Echegaray
Although clear progress has been recorded across different spheres, structural gaps and divergent perceptions persist, revealing tensions that remain unresolved.
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.

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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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).
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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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