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Water extractivism under the guise of development

Balthazar Sellier
The department of Caldas, in central Colombia, with its mountainous landscape from which numerous watercourses spring, has become the focus of hydroelectric projects.
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China, Ecuador and the Coca Codo Sinclair Hydroelectric Power Plant
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No transport, no vote: the failures that put Brazilian democracy to the test

Estefany Monteiro
Failures in free public transportation during the elections put the right to vote at risk, particularly in the most vulnerable areas.

Why Cuba denies its political prisoners

Michael Lima Cuadra
For nearly seven decades, the Cuban government has denied the existence of political prisoners, a strategy aimed at delegitimizing dissent and concealing repression.

Defeat as the engine of victory

Leonardo Magalhães
Lula’s comeback cannot be explained by triumphalism or a marketing formula, but rather by the rejection of Flávio Bolsonaro and a grassroots mobilization that turned the threat into votes.

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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.

No transport, no vote: the failures that put Brazilian democracy to the test

Estefany Monteiro
Failures in free public transportation during the elections put the right to vote at risk, particularly in the most vulnerable areas.
Freedom of expression

Why Cuba denies its political prisoners

Michael Lima Cuadra
For nearly seven decades, the Cuban government has denied the existence of political prisoners, a strategy aimed at delegitimizing dissent and concealing repression.
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Defeat as the engine of victory

Leonardo Magalhães
Lula’s comeback cannot be explained by triumphalism or a marketing formula, but rather by the rejection of Flávio Bolsonaro and a grassroots mobilization that turned the threat into votes.

Argentina

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Lula: the epic of victory and its limits

Gisela Pereyra Doval   |   Emilio Ordoñez Emilio
Lula’s victory in Brazil ushers in a new phase marked by the right’s parliamentary strength and pressure from an increasingly adverse regional landscape.
Freedom of expression

Why Cuba denies its political prisoners

Michael Lima Cuadra
For nearly seven decades, the Cuban government has denied the existence of political prisoners, a strategy aimed at delegitimizing dissent and concealing repression.
Elections

Defeat as the engine of victory

Leonardo Magalhães
Lula’s comeback cannot be explained by triumphalism or a marketing formula, but rather by the rejection of Flávio Bolsonaro and a grassroots mobilization that turned the threat into votes.

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.
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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.
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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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