Politics

The everyday architecture of violence: When drug policies generate more insecurity

Javier Sagredo
In Latin America, most drug-related insecurity is caused not by drug use itself, but by policies that persist in combating it through prohibition and punishment.
War on Drugs
Democracies Under Siege: The Dangerous Return of the Drug Wars
Foreign policy

Foreign policy and the electoral contest in Brazil in 2026: Washington wants to go to the polls

Ivan Filipe Fernandes   |   Abraão Aguilera
Brazil's presidential race is now being fought in Washington as well, where Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro seek to turn foreign policy into electoral capital.
Political leaders

The Fujimorist restoration

Jesús Tovar
Keiko Fujimori’s return to power heralds a revival of Fujimorism, which promises order but revives the tensions and risks of the past.
International relations

The American Friend

Manuel Alcántara
The figure of the "American friend" continues to symbolize an unequal power relationship, from the Cold War to contemporary transatlantic and Latin American politics.
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AI

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AI and digital refuge: How technology is redesigning our bonds

Constanza Cilley
In Latin America, artificial intelligence no longer merely connects us; it has become a digital refuge that replaces part of our bonds.

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.

Latin America off the AI map: Why we urgently need our own language model

Liliana Acosta
The Anglo-Saxon dominance in AI leaves Latin America without a voice in the digital world and makes it urgent to build technology that thinks from Latin America.

Democracy

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Bad Bunny has a political agenda for Puerto Rico

Héctor A. Ríos Maury
Bad Bunny has turned his immense cultural influence into a platform for advancing a political vision for Puerto Rico's future.

Shared values, democracy and politics in a fragmenting world

Nathalie Méndez Méndez
Democratic values continue to enjoy broad support, but institutional distrust and political polarization threaten their resilience in Latin America and Europe.
Democracy

Democracies Under Siege: The Dangerous Return of...

Javier Sagredo
The return of anti-drug policies based on repression threatens to exacerbate violence, strengthen organized crime, and weaken Latin American democracies.
Democracy

The pressure on fatigued democracies

Manuel Alcántara
Latin American democracies face growing pressure—disinformation, crime, migration, and inequality—that tests their capacity to withstand erosion and reinvent themselves.

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Warnings for Latin American democracies from Colombia and Peru

Marcela Ríos Tobar
The elections in Colombia and Peru highlight the spread of disinformation and narratives of electoral fraud as threats to democracy in Latin America.
Energy transition

International financial architecture in times of geopolitical rivalry and climate change

Leonardo Stanley
Geopolitical tensions and the decline in climate finance are redefining the rules of development for emerging countries.
Artificial intelligence

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

Washington repeats in Cuba the same failed strategy of 60 years ago

Orlando J. Pérez
Washington is once again betting on a strategy that already failed more than six decades ago: using economic sanctions to force political change in Cuba. Yet, while it seeks to isolate the regime, it also hampers reforms and pushes Havana closer to China.
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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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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.
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