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Is democratic consensus in Argentina continuing to recede?

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.
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Drought, Climate Change, and Scientific Diplomacy: A Collective Response from Latin America

Drought is—and will continue to be—a threat, but we are not defenseless. With shared knowledge, strategic alliances, and scientific diplomacy, the region can not only mitigate its effects, but also lay the groundwork for profound transformation.

From Barrel to Branding: El Chavo del Ocho as a Strategy of Nostalgia and Market

In recent years, the incorporation of technologies such as deepfake has allowed the series to be reinterpreted in order to connect with new audiences.

World Refugee Day requires more than solidarity from us

The recent changes in the United States' immigration policy have led many people to take the North-South route within the continent.
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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

Polarization in Latin America: Black Swan or Trend?

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: Democracy or spectacle?

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.

Who is the enemy of the people?

Suppose a distinctive characteristic of populism is the defense...

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.

Disinformation

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.

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.

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.

Iran’s ambitions in Latin America

HispanTV has been identified as a propaganda tool of the Iranian regime and criticized for disseminating disinformation. However, the alternative approach it offers to international reality has managed to connect with broad sectors of the Latin American left.
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