International relations

Crisis, resilience, or inertia in Latin American regionalism

María Victoria Alvarez
Far from disappearing, the region’s integration mechanisms are seeking to adapt to political fragmentation through more flexible arrangements that preserve minimum spaces for cooperation and governance.
The new Mercosur: A common tool at the service of individual interests
After 40 years of frustrations and resilience, Mercosur is more relevant than ever
Brazil

Brazilians reach World Environment Day between apprehension and fatigue

Fabián Echegaray
Growing concern about climate change coexists with Brazilians’ fatigue and distrust regarding the responses of governments and businesses to the environmental crisis.
Artificial intelligence

Biokleptocratic AI companies pose an existential risk

Irene Torres   |   Elyse Hauser
'' The rise of artificial intelligence entails significant environmental and social costs that, according to its critics, threaten essential common resources and deepen the concentration of power.
Elections

Colombia, a divided country

María Lucia Jaimes
The first round confirmed the country's polarization and left De la Espriella with an advantage heading into a runoff in which centrist votes will be decisive.
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AI

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From artificial intelligence to artificial wisdom: AI and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America

Jon Subinas
The expansion of artificial intelligence in Latin America reveals deep digital gaps that affect Indigenous Peoples, but it also opens the opportunity to incorporate their ancestral knowledge in a transition toward a more inclusive and decolonized “artificial wisdom.

The hidden face of AI governance: the invisible rules keeping Latin America out of the digital future

Marta Cantero Gamito
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.

The Latin American dilemma facing artificial intelligence: adapt or design the future?

José Luis Sampietro Saquicela
Latin America faces a historic crossroads: to adapt to artificial intelligence designed by others, or to create its own technological future with justice and digital sovereignty.

Democracy

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A girl, a snake, and the right to care for the forest 

Sílvia Maria da Silveira Loureiro
The case of an Indigenous girl brought a crucial debate before the Inter-American Court: recognizing that health and care also depend on ancestral knowledge and the territory.

Peru: an artificially polarized country

Carlos Ugo Santander
With days remaining before the runoff election, the growing number of undecided voters reveals that electoral polarization does not reflect Peru’s deep political and social fragmentation.
Autocracy

Voting is no longer enough: The crisis...

Jesús Delgado Valery
The report warns that global democracy is experiencing a historic setback, in which elections no longer guarantee democratic systems in the face of the sustained advance of autocratization.
Inequality

The day the obvious was “discovered”

María Eugenia Luarca
The world “discovers,” with an official stamp, what was already known: that growth without limits destroys life—and the real novelty is the crack it opens to change the narrative.

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The challenge of rebuilding the collective to strengthen Latin American democracy

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.
Elections

Politics shaken, it is time to think about a country for everyone

Fidel Cano
The shockwave produced by the first round of the presidential election was seismic. There was not a single political assumption left unquestioned. The message...
Trade

Rare earths and the eternal supplier trap: the unresolved challenge of the 20th century

Pedro José Tocuyo
Rare earths are reshaping global power. Can resource-rich countries finally turn mineral wealth into genuine economic and technological autonomy?

Presidential contenders in Colombia: what country do they want to govern? 

Fidel Cano
The final stretch of the Colombian presidential campaign has left the country caught between polarisation, political violence and rhetoric that undermines democratic coexistence.
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