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Road blockades, economic crisis, and social fracture are putting pressure on Rodrigo Paz’s government, as uncertainty grows over the country’s institutional stability.
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Fragmented Integration in a Multipolar Trade Order: Latin America, Africa and the Search for Convergence

The reconfiguration of global trade is pushing both regions toward divergent external alliances that deepen their dependence and weaken regional cohesion.

Drug trafficking: The defining factor in Mexico’s relationship with the United States

Relations between the United States and Mexico on security matters landed abruptly in the state of Sinaloa when the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York formally requested the arrest and extradition of Rubén Rocha Moya, the Morena governor of this northwestern Mexican state, along with nine other officials, for alleged ties to organized crime. This news is especially significant because there is no precedent in the history of bilateral relations for a demand of this kind, although some former governors have been arrested and have served sentences in U.S. prisons. The news was not surprising because U.S. President Donald Trump has maintained throughout his term that Mexico has been captured by organized crime and has asserted that the country has effectively become a kind of narco-state, something that fits with the narrative that several criminal organizations classified as terrorist groups must be fought. Among them, of course, is...

‘Hondurasgate’ and the tragedy of automatic alignment in Latin America

A transnational disinformation network involving actors from Honduras, Argentina, Israel, and the United States reveals how automatic alignment continues to undermine Latin American autonomy and deepen external interference in the region’s political disputes.

Política

The pressure on fatigued democracies

Latin American democracies face growing pressure—disinformation, crime, migration, and inequality—that tests their capacity to withstand erosion and reinvent themselves.

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Drug trafficking: The defining factor in Mexico’s...

Relations between the United States and Mexico on security...

‘Hondurasgate’ and the tragedy of automatic alignment...

A transnational disinformation network involving actors from Honduras, Argentina, Israel, and the United States reveals how automatic alignment continues to undermine Latin American autonomy and deepen external interference in the region’s political disputes.

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The Caribbean as the United States’ Chessboard

Washington’s renewed activism in the region revives the logic of the Monroe Doctrine and repositions the Caribbean as a strategic axis of its hemispheric influence.

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Relations between the United States and Mexico on security matters landed abruptly in the state of Sinaloa when the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the...

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A transnational disinformation network involving actors from Honduras, Argentina, Israel, and the United States reveals how automatic alignment continues to undermine Latin American autonomy and deepen external interference in the region’s political disputes.

Women’s vote under scrutiny: A warning for democracy

The rise of misogynistic discourse questioning women’s suffrage reflects a dangerous radicalization that threatens the basic principles of 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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