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Chile

Viability and effectiveness of José Antonio Kast’s “humanitarian corridor”

Marcelo Mella Polanco Marcelo

Kast’s “humanitarian corridor” promises order, but its political, legal, and fiscal viability is far from guaranteed.

Politics

María Corina Machado: a controversial Nobel Peace Prize

Migration

The United States in Venezuela: Questionable shared sovereignty

Venezuela

The power of the Nobel: Machado in her labyrinth

Juan Manuel Trak

By handing over the Nobel medal to Trump, Machado sought to speed up the transition, but ended up exposing his greatest dilemma: international influence without effective power.

Science

Dietary guidelines: When evidence without territory becomes imposition

José Julio Villalba

What is presented as scientific consensus can become an act of power when it is applied without considering the bodies, cultures, and inequalities it seeks to organize.

Poverty

Beyond growth: the role of the state in reducing poverty in Mexico

María Rodríguez Domínguez

Mexico reduced poverty without extraordinary economic growth: it did so by challenging the idea that the market, on its own, guarantees social progress.

Cuba

67 years later, Cuba remains a metaphor for Washington

Sahasranshu Dash

China

A family state at the service of Beijing

Martin Brown

Artificial Intelligence with real biases: New challenges for gender equality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Gemma Galdon-Clavell | Ana Pirela-Rios

In a region marked by deep inequalities, artificial intelligence reflects and amplifies society’s gender biases, turning a technological challenge into a human development problem.

Artificial intelligence in electoral campaigns: How and for what

Jesús Delgado Valery

Artificial intelligence is redefining electoral campaigns: it can either strengthen democracy or become its greatest threat.

From whales to algorithms: why Latin America can lead a nature-inspired AI

Amir Lebdioui | Ángel Melguizo | Victor Muñoz

Biomimicry could pave the way to more efficient and sustainable AI architectures. Latin America, with 60% of global biodiversity, has strategic advantages to lead this transition, provided it strengthens infrastructure, regulation and regional scientific cooperation.

Democracy

67 years later, Cuba remains a metaphor for Washington

Sahasranshu Dash

U.S. policy toward the island no longer seeks to manage a reality, but rather to close an unfinished history by turning economic suffering and migration into moral proofs.

A family state at the service of Beijing

Martin Brown

The democratic collapse of Nicaragua has created the ideal conditions for China to consolidate a model of cooperation based on political control, trade dependence, and resource extraction.

Elections

Abstention: from people’s power to voluntary servitude

Ariel Sribman Mittelman

The decline in electoral participation reveals a troubling crisis: when the people stop voting, democracy becomes hollow and moves, by its own decision, toward ‘voluntary servitude’.

Brazil

Democracy on Trial

Marjorie Corrêa Marona

Brazilian democracy is not only putting a former president on trial: it is measuring its own capability to withstand and learn from the crisis.

COP30

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Kast’s strategic silence and the risks for the gender agenda in Chile

Bruna Soares de Aguiar | Gabriela Aparecida de Oliveira

The silence of Kast on gender issues does not imply neutrality, but rather a concrete risk of the gradual dismantling of the rights won by women and dissident groups in Chile.

Policy

The opposition vice president: An old story in Bolivian politics

Franz Flores

When the person who should be the president’s main ally decides to confront him publicly, Bolivian politics once again reveals a recurring fracture: that of the vice president who turns the office into a platform for opposition.

Ecuador

Ecuador 2026: a year of tensions ahead

César Ulloa

With record levels of violence, a weakened government, and an impending electoral scenario, Ecuador is heading toward 2026 amid political tensions, institutional fragility, and unmet social demands.

Peripheral realism in Latin America and Europe as a reaction to the intervention in Venezuela

Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann | Detlef Nolte

The intervention of the United States in Venezuela reactivated in Latin America and Europe a foreign policy marked by peripheral realism: caution, adaptation to power, and the rhetorical defense of principles without direct confrontation.

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Argentina

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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.

The progressive paradox: Petro’s regressive measures against Venezuelan migration

What’s happening with migrant processing centers in Latin America?

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).

Challenges to electoral polls in the digital era

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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.

Against the Tide: The EU-Mercosur Agreement and Trump’s Trade Policy

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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.

COP30: Promises, lies, and hopes

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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.

The effects of human error on the health of the planet

A Vision for PAHO/WHO from and for Latin America

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The diversity
in Latin America and the Caribbean

The diversity of genes, species, and ecosystems enhances our well-being by providing food, medicine, protection against environmental extremes, and connections with nature and other people. However, biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation are advancing rapidly worldwide, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean. Many of these topics are explored in the Compendium on Biodiversity in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Health, climate and environment
in Latin America and the Caribbean

The compendium "Health, climate and environment in Latin America and the Caribbean", produced in partnership with the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) and supported by the World Meteorological Organization, explores the complexities of climate and environmental crises in the region. The texts in the book, written by leading experts and academics, address the challenges and risks of the region in the midst of climate and environmental crises.

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VIOLENCE AGAINST SCHOOLS IN BRAZIL
Perspectives on extremism among youth and prevention strategies

This book, co-organized with the Aurora Institute, seeks to raise awareness about violence against schools in Brazil and promote a qualified discussion on the subject. The book gathers 7 articles written by 13 specialists from academia and civil society organizations that analyze from different perspectives the growing violence in schools in Brazil, its roots, modalities and consequences. The articles also present recommendations for actions and public policies to prevent this phenomenon and make school communities part of the solution.

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Impacts of climate change
in Latin America and the Caribbean (2022)

Scientists have been warning about the causes and impacts of climate change for decades. Human activity currently affects most ecosystems and our actions continue to modify the functions of Earth systems globally.

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Viability and effectiveness of José Antonio Kast’s “humanitarian corridor”

The power of the Nobel: Machado in her labyrinth

Dietary guidelines: When evidence without territory becomes imposition

Beyond growth: the role of the state in reducing poverty in Mexico

67 years later, Cuba remains a metaphor for Washington

A family state at the service of Beijing

Artificial Intelligence with real biases: New challenges for gender equality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Artificial intelligence in electoral campaigns: How and for what

From whales to algorithms: why Latin America can lead a nature-inspired AI

67 years later, Cuba remains a metaphor for Washington

A family state at the service of Beijing

Abstention: from people’s power to voluntary servitude

Democracy on Trial

Kast’s strategic silence and the risks for the gender agenda in Chile

The opposition vice president: An old story in Bolivian politics

Ecuador 2026: a year of tensions ahead

Peripheral realism in Latin America and Europe as a reaction to the intervention in Venezuela

The hidden face of AI governance: the invisible rules keeping Latin...

Transitions from a Democratic Government

Public Sector: Chainsaw or Scissors?

Faced with Trump’s measures, Mexico is weighing retaliatory options

What is effective in Mexico may not be effective for the world

The political playing field

The Return of Trump and Mexico

The progressive paradox: Petro’s regressive measures against Venezuelan migration

What’s happening with migrant processing centers in Latin America?

Challenges to electoral polls in the digital era

Mexico 2024: mediocre candidates and democracy at risk

Against the Tide: The EU-Mercosur Agreement and Trump’s Trade Policy

Poison and power

COP30: Promises, lies, and hopes

Contradictions of development in times of climate crisis

The effects of human error on the health of the planet

A Vision for PAHO/WHO from and for Latin America

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