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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.
Cryptocurrency

Trump 2.0 and the rise of U.S. crypto-nationalism

Antulio Rosales   |   Ty Tarnowski
The new government could engender a form of economic nationalism characterized by trade protectionism, massive deregulation of the digital finance and AI sectors, and unwavering support for fossil fuel producers.
Donald Trump

Faced with Trump’s measures, Mexico is weighing retaliatory options

Scott Morgenstern
If Trump follows through with his threats, the result will be costs for consumers and businesses, as well as a new opportunity for China.
Health

Healing connections: Pets and plants as mental health protectors

Constanza Cilley
Studies have shown that petting an animal can reduce levels of cortisol, the stress hormone, while increasing the production of oxytocin, known as the love hormone.
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Climate change

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Goodbye winters?

Fabián Echegaray
With radical changes in climate, our habits, perceptions, and reactions to the causes should change. But is that what public opinion data tell us?

Why should we talk about climate justice?

María Villarreal
The notion of climate justice brings to the table the unequal historical and present responsibilities of countries, companies, and individuals regarding the climate crisis.

Brazil: an environmental disaster foretold

Manfred Steffen
Southern Brazil is underwater. What was exceptional is now part of the new normal. Adaptation, climate emergency plans and the valuation of ecosystems must be incorporated into policy. It is about the world we will leave to our sons and daughters.

Democracy challenges

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Precarious states

Manuel Alcántara
In Latin America, the absence of state control—or, if preferred, the state’s precarious capacity to delineate its territory and exercise sovereignty under international treaties—is stark.

Democracy is in decline in Latin America. Is it possible to reverse it?

Jerónimo Giorgi
There is a consensus. Rescuing democracy requires strengthening the institutions that are its pillars, which in turn depend on a society that trusts them.
Political parties

Can there be democracy without political parties?

Javier Rosiles
The centrality and control that political parties have over the decisions made in the executive, legislative and judicial branches makes it difficult for them to receive the respective corrective measures.
Venezuela

Venezuela and Latin America, democracy, chaos, and...

Fabián Bosoer
It's not just democracy versus dictatorship at stake in the Venezuelan crisis. It encompasses the trajectories of the region as a theater for great power competition or as a collective of countries and governments capable of unified action.

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RT: Disinformation without borders

Armando Chaguaceda
Twenty-first century democracies cannot ignore the lessons of Cold War disinformation campaigns, reformulated by their autocratic enemies in the current digital age.
Disinformation

Disinformation as a global risk in 2024: novelty or tradition?   

Gustavo A. Rivero
The phenomenon of disinformation is nothing new. What distinguishes it today is the omnipresent presence of the Internet and social networks, which have radically transformed the way we access information.
Elections

Elections 2024: the risks of disinformation

Alberto Ruiz Méndez
The risk of polarization is that it generates a social fracture that could lead us to an all-or-nothing result. The vote would not be for the support or rejection of a political platform, but a tool to silence those voices with which we differ.

The strange case of the 9,000 missing dead in Cuba

José Gabriel Barrenechea
At the beginning of 2022, the percentage of fully immunized Cubans reached more than 90%. How can we explain that in 2022 there was an excess of between 9,000 and 12,000 deaths?
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Harris y Trump

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Harris or Trump: What’s better for Latin America?

Elections
A Harris victory, which represents continuity, would offer a more favorable scenario both economically and politically for U.S.-Latin America relations.
Jerónimo Giorgi

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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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