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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.
Inequality
Why Are Violence and Crime Worsening in Ecuador?
Economy
The key factors behind the ‘No’ victory in Ecuador.
Chile

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.
Mercosur

After 40 years of frustrations and resilience, Mercosur is more relevant than ever

Miriam Gomes Saraiva
After four decades of crises, disagreements, and constant adaptations, Mercosur shows that its greatest strength is not the absence of conflict, but its ability to endure and continue to be a key player in regional integration.
USA

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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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 real threat to democracy is not populism: it is oligarchy

Maxwell Cameron   |   Federico M. Rossi
The crisis of democracy does not stem from mobilized masses, but from economic elites who, operating from within, have learned to govern without accountability.

Corporate lobbying pushes society toward collapse

Gregorio Vidal
The power of corporate lobbying and the extreme concentration of wealth are deepening inequality and weakening social and democratic foundations, pushing economies toward a growing risk of social fracture.
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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Cilia Flores: the combative first lady

Carolina Guerrero Valencia   |   Carolina Barry
The detention of Cilia Flores alongside Nicolás Maduro reignites the debate over the real power of first ladies in Latin America and lays bare how a role without formal oversight can become a key political actor within authoritarian regimes.
Elections

Costa Rica at a crossroads: Historical certainty versus electoral volatility

Eugenio Herrera Balharry
Costa Rica is facing elections marked by uncertainty and the rise of political personalism, putting one of Latin America’s most stable democracies to the test amid an unprecedented scenario of volatility.
Politics

Mexico’s challenges in 2026

Ernesto Hernández Norzagaray
Amid anemic economic growth, rising debt, and mounting internal and external pressures, Mexico faces in 2026 the challenge of governing scarcity without eroding its fragile political and institutional balance.

Venezuela and the world order

Pablo Ospina Peralta
The Venezuelan crisis reveals not a new world order, but rather the persistence of the old principle of the rule of the strongest, now reconfigured into an open struggle over spheres of influence.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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