China

The myth of best practices and the Chinese model

Oswaldo Toscano
China’s model challenges the Western institutional recipe and shows how adaptation and improvisation can drive development.
Geopolitics
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China
Copper, Lithium, and scholarships: Beijing’s quiet strategy in the region
War

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

Ottón Solís
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.
Donald Trump

Trump and the use of visas as a diplomatic weapon

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

The citizen who does not appear in digital statistics

Roney Lima do Nascimento
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.
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AI

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

Constanza Cilley
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

Yaldimar Ruíz
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.

Biokleptocratic AI companies pose an existential risk

Irene Torres   |   Elyse Hauser
'' The rise of artificial intelligence entails significant environmental and social costs that, according to its critics, threaten essential common resources and deepen the concentration of power.

Democracy

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The law is not enough

María Elisa Alonso
Legal parity does not guarantee political equality: without sanctions and changes to the culture of power, women continue to face barriers to accessing decision-making spaces.

Is Latin America and the Caribbean ready for the next Secretary-General?

Emmanuel Ikenna Ohiri
Latin America and the Caribbean face the possibility of leading the UN at a time when their own divisions make it difficult to build a common agenda that could capitalize on this opportunity.
Social networks

Hostages or strategists? Party discourse in the...

Pavel Sidorenko Bautista
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?
International policy

After the World Cup: The pitch also...

Luis Miguel Santibáñez Suárez
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.

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Who draws the map of Latin America today?

Pedro José Tocuyo
Maps do more than represent the world: they also reflect the balance of power. And today, Latin America is once again at the center of a struggle over who gets to draw and define its territory.
Internet

The geopolitics ahead: beyond Greenland and the Falkland Islands

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

Rio de Janeiro, New York and Berlin: What cosmopolitan cities teach us about resistance to right-wing extremism

Alessandra Maia
Large cities show that democratic coalitions and moderation can serve as a counterweight to the rise of right-wing extremism.

The Mexico Plan and the reconfiguration of semiconductor supply chains in Latin America

Wendy Esther Morán Ortega
The Mexico Plan seeks to attract investment in semiconductors, but it could reinforce Latin America’s dependence on the U.S. and its role as an assembler.
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