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Brazilian democracy resists: lessons from the Bolsonaro case

Guillermo Pérez
Brazil’s Supreme Court convicted Jair Bolsonaro for attempting a coup. What lessons does this case offer for democracy in Latin America?
Politics
The denialism that remains: how the Bolsonaro legacy shapes Congress and Brazilian politics
Elections
Lula 2026: between the “Biden scenario” and the “Moby Dick effect”
BRICS

Dethroning “King Dollar”: the BRICS and the Global South on the move

Marta Fernández   |   María Elena Rodríguez
Brazil consolidates its position as a key player and reaches agreements to promote a multilateral agenda focused on cooperation, reducing inequalities, and global governance.
Democracy

Revamping democracy: from unfulfilled promises to resilient human development

Michelle Muschett
On International Democracy Day, Latin America faces the challenge of revamping a system worn down by inequality and misinformation, but one that remains essential for resilient and equitable human development.
Elections

Bolivia: better the devil you don’t know than the old already known

Orestes E. Díaz Rodríguez
The historic collapse of the MAS in 2025 brings two decades of populist hegemony to a close and opens up an unprecedented presidential race between the traditional Jorge Quiroga and the emerging Rodrigo Paz.
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Biodiversity

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The region’s potential to lead the transition to a sustainable blue economy

Larisse Faroni-Perez
With strong governance and public-private partnerships, Latin America and the Caribbean has the potential to lead the transition to a sustainable blue economy.

Biodiversity and Health: Thinking Broadly and Working Efficiently

Liz Willetts
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

Roosevelt García-Villacorta
While scientists struggle to understand how we might terraform Mars, gold mining in the Amazon is creating biological deserts, transforming ecosystems critical to the planet.

Democracy challenges

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Is democratic consensus in Argentina continuing to recede?

Santiago Leiras
This prolonged election year coexists with growing concern about the course of a democracy that faces a deterioration of the political consensus on which it has been based.

The urgent need to reinvent democracy

Fernando Barrientos
If elections could eradicate corruption and solve the most pressing political and social problems, almost all Latin American countries would be developed.
Ecuador

Elections and the war against democracy in...

Andrea Guillem   |   Franklin Ramírez
Buoyed by broad electoral support, Noboa is using the supposed fight against insecurity as the fastest way to legalize an authoritarian regime.
Mexico

Governance or simulation? The new digital agency...

Jorge Francisco Aguirre Sala
When information is published in an accessible and reusable form, we speak of Open Data; and when it is used to strengthen citizen participation and control, we refer to Governance.

Disinformation

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

Jesús Delgado Valery
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.
Disinformation

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

Ana Cláudia Santano
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.
Disinformation

Zuckerberg and the perception of Brazilians about online content regulation

Camilo Aggio  |   Eurico Matos   |   Luciana Veiga
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?

Camila Cassis  |   Teresa Bastiani   |   Fabián Echegaray
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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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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