International relations

The Caribbean community’s divide over U.S. power

Nand C. Bardouille
While some countries in this Caribbean bloc embrace U.S. power, others seek to limit its reach, leaving the rest struggling to find a difficult middle ground.
Geopolitics
The Caribbean as the United States’ Chessboard
International Relations
Who draws the map of Latin America today?
Democracy

Democracy is improving, but its checks and balances remain at risk. Why?

Ángel Arellano   |   Joaquín Danza Esmoris
Support for democracy is rebounding in Latin America, but it coexists with low satisfaction with government, tolerance for executives operating without checks and balances, and an electoral shift to the right that does not yet amount to a profound ideological transformation.
Artificial intelligence

AI regulation must do more than avoid certain doom

Irene Torres   |   Elyse Hauser
The regulation of artificial intelligence cannot be limited to preventing a global catastrophe; it must also curb the environmental and social destruction that its infrastructure is already causing in specific territories.
Artificial intelligence

On rigor in sounding the alarm

Lajos Kossuth
AI risk warnings are gaining momentum, but without verifiable evidence to back them up, fear may end up taking precedence over reality.

AI

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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.

Hyperglobalization 2.0: Why AI has not slowed the world down

Nicolás M. Perrone
Trade wars suggest deglobalisation, but the AI race is wiring the world together at unprecedented speed.

Artificial intelligence: new job opportunities for women

Susana Reina
Artificial intelligence may threaten existing roles for women, but it simultaneously opens up a wealth of new career paths, so long as upskilling and workplace inclusion remain central to the transition

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Latin America is living longer. Are we prepared to provide better care?

Ronald Jonathan Cañarte Siguencia
Latin America’s aging population demands stronger primary healthcare, continuous care, and more equitable access to services.

Latin America does not enter a new era with every election

Carlos Ugo Santander
Latin America's electoral swings do not signal the end of progressivism, but reflect growing competition, voter dissatisfaction and political alternation.
Disinformation

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.
Social networks

Hostages or strategists? Party discourse in the...

Pavel Sidorenko Bautista
In the context of the attention economy, recommendation systems interpret narrative moderation as a lack of relevance. What do political parties competing in contexts of extreme polarization do to make themselves heard?

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What did Latin American representatives propose at the UN General Assembly?

Irma Torres Garrido
Organized crime, UN reform, and artificial intelligence were at the heart of Latin America’s main proposals before the United Nations General Assembly.
Elections

Breathe, think, and vote again: reflections on nepotism and Brazil’s runoff election

Alessandra Maia
As Brazil heads into the presidential runoff, the country faces the challenge of choosing between the desire for change and the risks posed by the concentration of power and political nepotism.
Africa

The search for a capable state in Africa and Latin America

Danilo Desiderio
Africa and Latin America share common challenges: building capable states that can turn economic growth into jobs and more broadly shared prosperity.

From Liberation Theology to Pentecostalism: religion and the construction of the Brazilian right

Sahasranshu Dash
Religion has been central to Brazil’s political transformation, from the Liberation Theology that helped propel the left to the rise of Pentecostalism as a conservative force.

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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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