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Migration

Why do immigrants support anti-immigration policies?

Denise Cogo   |   Lucas Zanetti
Immigrants' support for anti-immigration policies reveals how internal hierarchies, moral narratives, and digital dynamics shape new forms of belonging and exclusion within diasporas themselves.
Portugal: Brazilian migration in the crosshairs after the far-right’s electoral surge
Brazilian immigrants and the increase in anti-immigration discourse in Portugal
Sovereignty

The footprint of Chinese interference

César Eduardo Santos
The gap between China's rhetoric of "non-interference" and its practices of pressure and intimidation is evident in many regions of the Global South.
Colombia

The “ollas” of micro-trafficking in Colombia: A national and transnational security problem

Henry M. Rodríguez
The micro-trafficking hubs in Colombia have evolved into complex criminal nodes that weave together territorial control, illegal economies, and social exploitation, becoming a national and transnational security problem.
Artificial intelligence

AI and satellite data: An opportunity with major challenges for Latin America

Daniela Moctezuma Ochoa
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.
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AI

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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

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The impacts of the climate crisis in Latin America

Ximena Roncal Vattuone
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.

The people can write dangerous things

Sebastián Godínez Rivera
Democracy faces today a silent danger: the citizens’ support for leaders who, from the ballot box, learn how to dismantle it.
Democracy

Why is organized crime becoming increasingly serious...

Douglas Farah   |   Pablo Zeballos
For decades, drug cartels have wielded profound political influence in Latin America. With the evolution and diversification of new illicit markets that move trillions of dollars, the corrupting capacity of criminal networks challenges the survival of democratic institutions.
Democracy

Revamping democracy: from unfulfilled promises to resilient...

Michelle Muschett
On International Democracy Day, Latin America faces the challenge of revamping a system worn down by inequality and misinformation, but one that remains essential for resilient and equitable human development.

COP30

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Geopolitics of legal knowledge: Latin America’s role in shaping international norms

Richard Carlos Meza
Latin America is moving from being a recipient of norms to becoming an influential producer of legal knowledge that is transforming international law.
Social violence

Reducing violence: Latin America’s pending economic policy

José Luis Sampietro Saquicela
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 villages

Indigenous women in Latin American politics: Formal democracy, real exclusion

Alondra Servín Velázquez
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.

Love and hate in politics

Manuel Alcántara
In Panama, the historical influence of the United States over the Canal continues to shape the country's politics, economy, and social tensions.
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The hidden face of AI governance: the invisible rules keeping Latin...

Artificial intelligence
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.
Jerónimo Giorgi

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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.
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).
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.

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