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Silent infiltration: criminal ‘brokers’ and their impact on Latin America’s formal economy

Regulatory frameworks and international cooperation must be strengthened to effectively combat these threats to Latin America's economic and social stability.
Organized Crime
Internet

The Greater Caribbean and the Global Challenge: Integration for Geostrategic Action

Faced with a changing international order, the Greater Caribbean must urgently assume a firm and coordinated integration in order to leave fragmentation behind and consolidate itself as a relevant geostrategic actor.

The Beginning of a New Phase in Latin America–China Relations

The Fourth Ministerial Meeting of the China-CELAC Forum does not mark the end of a stage, but the beginning of a new phase in the Sino-Latin American relationship.

Governance or simulation? The new digital agency and the risk of making citizens invisible

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.
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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

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...

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.

Democracy: The Worst System of Government?

Some governments, in the name of democracy, make public decisions that ironically can end up destroying it and even unleashing demons upon the world.

The political playing field

The ground for politics in the terms in which it was defined during the last century is precarious and on the verge of vanishing completely.

Disinformation

Mexico: falsehood is a constant in the debates

Mexico: falsehood is a constant in the debates

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.

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.

Latin America in the face of climate change

The synergy between collective awareness and concrete political action is emerging as one of the keys to effectively addressing environmental challenges, aiming to mitigate their adverse effects and promote sustainable development.
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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.