Raising our gaze: Rome and the power of symbols

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The end of anonymity: AI lowers the price of surveillance and makes freedom more expensive

Artificial intelligence is dismantling digital anonymity and turning mass surveillance into an increasingly inexpensive tool, while exercising political freedom is becoming more costly and risky.

Colombia: Toward a national fracture?

The unprecedented contest between political extremes is testing Colombia’s democratic stability amid a context of growing polarization.

When the national team was the state

Football continues to generate collective identity in Brazil and Argentina, but media and political fragmentation have diminished its capacity to reinforce the legitimacy of the state.

Política

A just transition must speak about gender

A just transition is not merely about replacing one economic activity with another; it is also about addressing the social inequalities that the previous model helped to entrench.

The end of anonymity: AI lowers the price of surveillance and makes freedom more expensive

Artificial intelligence is dismantling digital anonymity and turning mass surveillance into an increasingly inexpensive tool, while exercising political freedom is becoming more costly and risky.

Colombia: Toward a national fracture?

The unprecedented contest between political extremes is testing Colombia’s democratic stability amid a context of growing polarization.

When the national team was the state

Football continues to generate collective identity in Brazil and Argentina, but media and political fragmentation have diminished its capacity to reinforce the legitimacy of the state.

Argentina

The Plan Colombia has fulfilled its purpose: now the country needs a new strategy

After transforming a country that once seemed on the brink of collapse, Colombia now faces the challenge of adapting its security policies to increasingly complex and transnational criminal threats.

Colombia: Toward a national fracture?

The unprecedented contest between political extremes is testing Colombia’s democratic stability amid a context of growing polarization.

When the national team was the state

Football continues to generate collective identity in Brazil and Argentina, but media and political fragmentation have diminished its capacity to reinforce the legitimacy of the state.

Crisis, resilience, or inertia in Latin American regionalism

Far from disappearing, the region’s integration mechanisms are seeking to adapt to political fragmentation through more flexible arrangements that preserve minimum spaces for cooperation and governance.
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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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