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Historic comeback in Brazil: Lula becomes president for the fourth time

Vanessa Pinilla Fernades   |   Maximilian Hedrich
Mobilization in the streets and on social media made the difference. But the election was marked by a chaotic election day, polarization, and a rightward shift in the country.
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From exception to rule: how the runoff election is changing democracy

Flavia Freidenberg
The runoff has become the norm in Latin America, where political fragmentation and polarization are putting electoral legitimacy to the test.

Brazil rediscovers its antidotes to democratic backsliding

Fabián Echegaray
The mobilization of civil society in the streets and on social media demonstrated that citizen participation can halt the advance of authoritarianism and defend democracy in the face of political disenchantment.

Digital violence against women: The invisible cost of participating

Marcela Ríos Tobar   |   Alejandra Sepúlveda Peñaranda
Digital gender-based violence seeks to silence women in public life and threatens the quality of democracies; therefore, combating it requires a joint response from institutions and digital platforms.

Política

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Care Day: the invisible value of undervalued work

Lucila Nejamiks
Care work sustains life and the economy, yet in Latin America it remains marked by precarious working conditions and gender inequality that keep its true social value invisible.

From exception to rule: how the runoff election is changing democracy

Flavia Freidenberg
The runoff has become the norm in Latin America, where political fragmentation and polarization are putting electoral legitimacy to the test.
Elections

Brazil rediscovers its antidotes to democratic backsliding

Fabián Echegaray
The mobilization of civil society in the streets and on social media demonstrated that citizen participation can halt the advance of authoritarianism and defend democracy in the face of political disenchantment.
Social networks

Digital violence against women: The invisible cost...

Marcela Ríos Tobar   |   Alejandra Sepúlveda Peñaranda
Digital gender-based violence seeks to silence women in public life and threatens the quality of democracies; therefore, combating it requires a joint response from institutions and digital platforms.

Argentina

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Two moments and a speech

Manuel Alcántara
The U.S. military deployment in Latin America and the dispute over the UN Secretary-General’s post reveal Washington’s ambitions for power and its neocolonial drift.
Elections

Brazil rediscovers its antidotes to democratic backsliding

Fabián Echegaray
The mobilization of civil society in the streets and on social media demonstrated that citizen participation can halt the advance of authoritarianism and defend democracy in the face of political disenchantment.
Social networks

Digital violence against women: The invisible cost of participating

Marcela Ríos Tobar   |   Alejandra Sepúlveda Peñaranda
Digital gender-based violence seeks to silence women in public life and threatens the quality of democracies; therefore, combating it requires a joint response from institutions and digital platforms.

A witch hunt in Itamaraty

Bruno Fabricio Alcebino da Silva
The Bolsonaro-led offensive against career diplomats revives the specter of the dictatorship’s ideological purges and threatens to turn Itamaraty into a tool of political loyalty.
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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.
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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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