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Who is the enemy of the people?

Suppose a distinctive characteristic of populism is the defense of a people excluded from the social and political benefits of democracy. Why do its discourse and actions generate so much controversy? Why would we oppose a project that seeks to improve society? Populism has perplexed us because, even though we may have intuitions or certainties about its dangers and excesses, any criticism seems to imply that we are denying the existence of the social injustices it denounces. To move beyond this conceptual and political perplexity, we must distance ourselves from its idea of "the people" and begin to ask how populism defines...

How Latin Americans sleep: The sleep crisis in the digital age

Sleep is not an isolated problem, but is conditioned by multiple social, economic, cultural and personal factors.

Sheinbaum’s red line

Sheinbaum faces a dilemma: distance herself from Trump and strengthen her leadership or get caught in distrust and internal conflicts.

Is it reasonable to insist on democracy?

The limits of democratization based on elections alone have been widely debated, without addressing the structural fragility of the State and its lack of institutionality.
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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

Transitions from a Democratic Government

The world is seeing the emergence of characters who challenge the status quo, promote anti-establishment agendas, and promise what they call a 'true democracy,' albeit one characterized by authoritarian overtones.

Kakistocracy in Latin America

The current era of weakened democracies is gradually leading to the formation of governments composed of low-quality members.

Elon Musk, the genie out of the...

Trump's victory back in the White House may be the South African tycoon's most successful investment, moving from risk-taker to king-maker.

Reconciliation with Politics

In the last month, a sequence of diverse events can be considered to argue for the existence of a favorable arena of evident reconciliation with politics.

Disinformation

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.

Misery of Information

It is important to avoid superficial instrumentalism that promotes technological innovations in the digital era and instead focus on the political and economic factors shaping the dominant mode of information production.

Mexico: falsehood is a constant in the debates

Mexico: falsehood is a constant in the debates

Disinformation as a global risk in 2024: novelty or tradition?   

The phenomenon of disinformation is nothing new. What distinguishes it today is the omnipresent presence of the Internet and social networks, which have radically transformed the way we access information.
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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.