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The first round confirmed the country's polarization and left De la Espriella with an advantage heading into a runoff in which centrist votes will be decisive.

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'' The rise of artificial intelligence entails significant environmental and social costs that, according to its critics, threaten essential common resources and deepen the concentration of power.

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Discrepancies in official deportation figures cast doubt on widely publicized records and suggest that thousands of cases are missing from public statistics.

Colombia, a divided country

The first round confirmed the country's polarization and left De la Espriella with an advantage heading into a runoff in which centrist votes will be decisive.

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Peru: an artificially polarized country

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A girl, a snake, and the right to care for the forest 

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The challenge of rebuilding the collective to strengthen Latin American democracy

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Executive Director of the IPSE Intelligence research institute. Researcher in public opinion, discursive framing in the media and computer sciences.
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).
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).
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.
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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