Inequality

The invisible map of inequality: What child malnutrition reveals in Latin America

Ronald Jonathan Cañarte Siguencia
Chronic child malnutrition is often understood as a problem of food and nutrition. However, it also reveals something deeper: the territorial inequalities that shape opportunities to grow up healthy in Latin America. When countries with similar geographies and challenges achieve very different outcomes, the explanation lies not only in the territory itself, but also in political decisions and in how each state organizes social protection. Imagine seven children born in the same year, one in each of these countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. None of them chose where to be born. None decided the conditions of...
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Financial Redundancy: The New Architecture of Development Finance

Danilo Desiderio
As global development finance becomes increasingly fragmented, developing countries are seeking to establish alternative channels to secure the flow of capital. Yet this financial redundancy also brings risks: rising debt burdens, greater administrative complexity, and a persistent dependence on the world's leading reserve currencies.

No Fair Play: Taking Stock of the World Cup

Ariel Dulitzky
Beyond Spain's victory, the World Cup once again exposed FIFA's contradictions: politicized decision-making, a lack of transparency, commercial interests, and the uneven enforcement of its rules on human rights, discrimination, and freedom of expression.

The paradox of disinformation: How the Venezuelan case debunks Trump’s election fraud narrative

Jesús Delgado Valery
Trump invokes the Venezuelan case to support his election fraud narrative, but the evidence shows that technology has been instrumental in exposing it.

Política

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The challenge of governing a changing climate

José Luis Sampietro Saquicela
Global warming is altering the climate patterns that for decades guided the planning of cities, infrastructure, and agricultural production. Faced with an increasingly uncertain future, Latin America must move beyond relying solely on historical records and invest in adaptation and resilience.

Financial Redundancy: The New Architecture of Development Finance

Danilo Desiderio
As global development finance becomes increasingly fragmented, developing countries are seeking to establish alternative channels to secure the flow of capital. Yet this financial redundancy also brings risks: rising debt burdens, greater administrative complexity, and a persistent dependence on the world's leading reserve currencies.
Human rights

No Fair Play: Taking Stock of the...

Ariel Dulitzky
Beyond Spain's victory, the World Cup once again exposed FIFA's contradictions: politicized decision-making, a lack of transparency, commercial interests, and the uneven enforcement of its rules on human rights, discrimination, and freedom of expression.
Disinformation

The paradox of disinformation: How the Venezuelan...

Jesús Delgado Valery
Trump invokes the Venezuelan case to support his election fraud narrative, but the evidence shows that technology has been instrumental in exposing it.

Argentina

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How far can U.S. pressure on the Cuban regime go?

Johannes Hügel   |   Nikolaus Rischbieter
The Cuban regime’s deepest crisis coincides with a strategy of maximum pressure driven by Washington. The objective is to force a political transition, but the use of force no longer appears to be an implausible scenario.
Human rights

No Fair Play: Taking Stock of the World Cup

Ariel Dulitzky
Beyond Spain's victory, the World Cup once again exposed FIFA's contradictions: politicized decision-making, a lack of transparency, commercial interests, and the uneven enforcement of its rules on human rights, discrimination, and freedom of expression.
Disinformation

The paradox of disinformation: How the Venezuelan case debunks Trump’s election fraud narrative

Jesús Delgado Valery
Trump invokes the Venezuelan case to support his election fraud narrative, but the evidence shows that technology has been instrumental in exposing it.

De la Espriella and greater North America

Sebastián Godínez Rivera
Abelardo de la Espriella’s victory in Colombia strengthens the advance of the right across Latin America and brings Bogotá closer to the hemispheric project promoted by the United States.
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The hidden face of AI governance: the invisible rules keeping Latin...

Artificial intelligence
Global AI governance moves forward without Latin America, which adopts foreign rules while its voice remains absent from the tables where the digital future is decided.
Jerónimo Giorgi

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Leonardo Magalhães
Executive Director of the IPSE Intelligence research institute. Researcher in public opinion, discursive framing in the media and computer sciences.
Alejandro García Magos
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).
Manuel Alcántara
Director of CIEPS - International Center for Political and Social Studies, AIP-Panama. Honorary Emeritus Professor at the University of Salamanca and UPB (Medellín). Latest books: "El oficio de politico" (Tecnos Madrid, 2020), "Huellas de la Democracy Fatigada" (Océano Atlántico Editores, 2024) and "Cuando la política dejó de ser lo que era" (Océano Atlántico Editores, 2025).
Maria Regina Soares de Lima
Professor and researcher at the Institute of Social and Political Studies of the State Universityt of Rio de Janeiro (IESP/UERJ). Coordinator of the South American Political Observatory (OPSA). PhD in Political Science from Vanderbilt University.
Mateo Jarquín
Historian and professor at Chapman University (California). PHd from Harvard University. His writings on Latin American politics have appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post, among other international media.
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