Brazil’s and Uruguay’s oil bets reveal the tensions between their climate rhetoric and a development model that still prioritizes fossil fuels despite the environmental urgency.
The combination of artificial intelligence and satellite data opens enormous potential to solve urgent problems in Latin America, but it also exposes the region’s dependency and the technological challenges it faces.
The climate crisis is hitting Latin America with disproportionate force, revealing a region that is increasingly vulnerable and a world that is failing to keep its own promises.
Violence operates as a “hidden tax” that costs Latin America 3.5% of its GDP and chokes investment, productivity, and development, making security the region’s major outstanding economic policy.
Indigenous women who enter politics in Latin America face systematic intersectional violence which, despite legal advances, continues to be rendered invisible and exposes the gap between formal democracy and real inclusion.
