We underestimate the impact of climate change on education
Co-author Carole Faucher
Without school infrastructure or physical access to schools, students have fewer opportunities to create the relationships through which they can flourish.
Maduro’s Special Economic Zones: A stab in the dark?
Before such a disaster, the Maduro regime now appeals to the Special Economic Zones. However, as stated throughout its articles, the supervisory and oversight role of the State conditions any operational and capitalization aspect that may be developed in these SEZs.
Ortega: Electoral observation and the spoils of democracy
The suppression of qualified electoral observation is a consequence of Nicaragua’s democratic decline. The observation missions were among the actors who warned about the progressive evolution of Ortega’s offensive.
Political violence: Democracies screaming for help
The increase in political violence is a clear sign of the lack and abandonment of current democratic values, such as the right to dissent and tolerance.
Challenges of the new progressive cycle
Unlike the previous cycle, which had Caracas-Brasilia-Buenos Aires as its axis, the current cycle will have a new strategic axis: Santiago-Brasilia-Bogota and will face three main challenges: the renewal of the left, the economy and political polarization.
Preparing the Americas for the next pandemic
Infectious diseases are emerging at a rate never seen before as a result of the global changes of the last century that favor the transmission of new viruses.
Between war and home: Women in the history of Cuba
Conquest and protection are two essential facets of masculinity in different armed conflicts, which makes the presence of women ambiguous among the combatants and, sometimes, they are seen as a sign of weakness and a source of desire.
Economy
The strengthening of the U.S. dollar against the Latin American currencies
Co-author David Castells-Quintana
In an unpredictable global context with the uncertainty of pandemic, war, inflation and political instability, it is to be expected that exchange rate volatility will continue.
Losing Eden: Inflation and Interest Rates in Chile
When in 2019 Sebastián Piñera referred to Chile as an oasis in the middle of a Latin America faced with great economic and political adversities, he could have never imagined the events that would follow.
The metaverse will impact all sectors of the economy
The metaverse is fostering a series of debates on a global scale that traverse topics that will move the entire economy, and the effects of this new technological era will be felt by all of us.
Society
Humanity’s Crossroads in the Anthropocene Epoch
We live in a time of crisis and uncertainty where it seems that the organization of life and the representation of the future, as we imagine it, are being challenged by global dynamics that transcend our understanding.
The Exclusion of Afro-descendant Women in Latin America
Today is the International Day of of Afro-Latin American, Afro-Caribbean and Diaspora Women. Although the presence of politicians such as Epsy Campbell and Francia Márquez show their growing prominence, the conditions of exclusion, inequality and citizen deficit of these women are multiple.
The social outburst in Panama does not find a political solution
The social outburst is a product of a sharp rise in the costs of living, stark evidence of social inequality, and a decline in the credibility of the government, both for signs of corruption and for its clumsy crisis handling.
Politics
The murky U.S. criteria for singling out corrupt Central Americans
Every time a new list appears, the new members are usually second-rate characters or so-called “useful idiots”, while the “big fish”, the people who are the most steeped in varied acts of corruption, never appear.
Will this be a fleeting leftist wave?
Today Latin America is probably the main reference point for the left in the world. But it is uncertain how long this new wave of leftist governments that have been succeeding each other recently will last.
Metaphors and Emotions in Chile’s Constitutional Debate
Linguist George Lakoff argues that much of politics revolves not around a rational exchange of ideas, but around conflicts between different moral-ethical values regarding how to constitute the family.