Colombia

Petro’s Mistakes

Janaína Ruviaro da Silva
Petro’s failure cannot be explained solely by the electoral defeat, but rather by a government marked by arrogance, instability, and an inability to turn its grand promises into lasting public policies.
Women

What if women had their own political party?

Susana Reina
Latin American politics faces an unresolved question: should women transform political parties from within or build a feminist alternative of their own?
Colombia

How can we help those affected by the earthquake in Colombia?

Fidel Cano
Following the earthquake that struck Colombia, solidarity can become a sustained chain of support that accompanies affected communities beyond the immediate emergency.
Social networks

Screens with borders: The new global social media policy for the digital childhood

Ángel Arellano
Regulation for minors has ceased to be a moral debate and become a matter of state policy: some countries ban, others impose conditions, and almost all shift responsibility to platforms. Why and how?
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Brazil and AI diplomacy: lessons for Colombia and Bolivia

Roberto García Alonso   |   Ulf Thoene
Brazil is banking on AI as a cornerstone of its technological sovereignty and diplomacy, whilst Colombia and Bolivia face the challenge of translating regulation into tangible capabilities.

The truth in times of synthetic images

Daniel Andrés Mosquera   |   Yolanda Suárez Topete
In the era of synthetic images, artificial intelligence blurs the boundary between seeing and believing, eroding shared truth and democratic trust.

AI and digital refuge: How technology is redesigning our bonds

Constanza Cilley
In Latin America, artificial intelligence no longer merely connects us; it has become a digital refuge that replaces part of our bonds.

Democracy

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Bad losers and the problem of the legitimacy of new presidents

Fernando Barrientos
The refusal of defeated candidates to recognize legitimate electoral results undermines the authority of newly elected presidents, exacerbates polarization, and can trigger serious institutional crises and post-election violence.

Who protects the conditions for public debate?

Camila Olate
Disinformation and algorithms are transforming public debate in Latin America. Protecting democracy requires strengthening journalism, platform transparency, media literacy, and institutional trust.
Democracy

Warnings for Latin American democracies from Colombia...

Marcela Ríos Tobar
The elections in Colombia and Peru highlight the spread of disinformation and narratives of electoral fraud as threats to democracy in Latin America.
Soccer

Football as a mirror: the World Cup...

Santiago Rodríguez-Solórzano
Every four years, we think the FIFA World Cup is only about football. But all it takes is a closer look to realize that it also speaks about democracy, inequality, institutions, leadership, and the rules of the game.

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A World Cup, an old wound: “whitening” in Latin America

Sahasranshu Dash
The racist controversies at the World Cup reignited an old debate: how the ideal of “whitening” shaped national identity in Argentina and much of Latin America and continues to shape its inequalities.
Cuba

Cuba and the Limits of Isolation

Armando Chaguaceda   |   César Eduardo Santos
Despite its deep economic crisis, Cuba retains an international influence greater than its material weight thanks to a broad network of governments, political parties, trade unions, and social organizations that support the regime.
Inequality

The invisible map of inequality: What child malnutrition reveals in Latin America

Ronald Jonathan Cañarte Siguencia
Chronic child malnutrition is often understood as a problem of food and nutrition. However, it also reveals something deeper: the territorial inequalities that shape...

Washing one’s hands by blaming China

Ottón Solís
The West blames China for its industrial weaknesses, but it would do better to learn from China’s investment, planning, and long-term policies—lessons far more valuable than trade wars and anti-China rhetoric.
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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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Nastassja Rojas Silva
Professor at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá) and PhD candidate in Law at Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Specializing in migration movements, gender studies and Venezuelan politics.
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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).
Ana Paula Tostes
Political scientist. Professor and researcher at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). PhD in Political Science from IUPERJ (current IESP / UERJ). Researcher at the Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI) - Núcleo Europa.
Leonardo Stanley
Associate Researcher at the Center for the Study of State and Society - CEDES (Buenos Aires). Author of "Latin America Global Insertion, Energy Transition, and Sustainable Development", Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Irene Torres
PhD in Health Promotion. Member of the International Advisory Board of The Lancet Global Health and member of the Steering Committee of the Thematic Working Group on Health Systems in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings of Health Systems Global Health.