Governance

The challenge of governing a changing climate

José Luis Sampietro Saquicela
Global warming is altering the climate patterns that for decades guided the planning of cities, infrastructure, and agricultural production. Faced with an increasingly uncertain future, Latin America must move beyond relying solely on historical records and invest in adaptation and resilience.
Climate Change
The climate crisis is already on the table: The hidden cost of feeding Latin America
Ecological Transition
Financing the climate transition: An urgent agenda for global redistribution
financial market

Financial Redundancy: The New Architecture of Development Finance

Danilo Desiderio
As global development finance becomes increasingly fragmented, developing countries are seeking to establish alternative channels to secure the flow of capital. Yet this financial redundancy also brings risks: rising debt burdens, greater administrative complexity, and a persistent dependence on the world's leading reserve currencies.
Human rights

No Fair Play: Taking Stock of the World Cup

Ariel Dulitzky
Beyond Spain's victory, the World Cup once again exposed FIFA's contradictions: politicized decision-making, a lack of transparency, commercial interests, and the uneven enforcement of its rules on human rights, discrimination, and freedom of expression.
Cuba

How far can U.S. pressure on the Cuban regime go?

Johannes Hügel   |   Nikolaus Rischbieter
The Cuban regime’s deepest crisis coincides with a strategy of maximum pressure driven by Washington. The objective is to force a political transition, but the use of force no longer appears to be an implausible scenario.
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AI

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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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The last ownerless territory: Antarctica and the 2048 window

Florencia Davidzon
As 2048 approaches, Antarctica's greatest challenge is no longer sovereignty, but the construction of a global framework to protect the last territory without an owner.

The challenge of artificial intelligence for democracy

Kevin Casas-Zamora
Artificial intelligence is already transforming democracy, and the great challenge is to ensure that it strengthens—rather than undermines—the integrity of electoral processes and democratic institutions.
Polarization

Concern over democracy in Latin America is...

Enrique Gomáriz Moraga
Democracy faces growing pressures from polarization, insecurity, and citizen disillusionment, reigniting the debate over the roles of the State and citizenship in strengthening democratic governance.
Policy

The challenge of rebuilding the collective to...

Dolores Gandulfo
Growing public disillusionment with democracies that are unable to guarantee welfare, representation and a shared future is putting Latin America’s political and social stability to the test.

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The FSLN drops the mask: from electoral farce to one-party rule

Enrique Martínez
Daniel Ortega's declaration that Nicaragua will no longer hold elections exposes the FSLN's transition from electoral authoritarianism to outright one-party rule.
Colombia

De la Espriella and greater North America

Sebastián Godínez Rivera
Abelardo de la Espriella’s victory in Colombia strengthens the advance of the right across Latin America and brings Bogotá closer to the hemispheric project promoted by the United States.
Inequality

The politics of decline

Pedro José Tocuyo
Latin America's growing middle class has reshaped politics. Today, fear of downward mobility is driving electoral volatility, political frustration and demands for stability.

What can we expect from the rise of the far right in Latin America?

Franz Flores
The rise of far-right governments across Latin America raises questions about democracy, polarization, populism and institutional resilience throughout the region.
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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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