Culture

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.
Politics
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Culture
Between spectacle and the cultural frontier: Politics and identity in the Super Bowl LX halftime show
Policy

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

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.
Society

New wellness rituals in Latin America

Constanza Cilley
More and more Latin Americans are turning to new wellness practices in search of something that traditional institutions no longer seem to offer.
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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.

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.

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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.

Brazil: Lusophony as a transregional bridge

Alberto Maresca
Brazil’s foreign policy is often analyzed through the lens of its regional leadership or its participation in the BRICS and the G20. Yet one...
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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The wounds that never fade: Memory, colonialism, and identity

Carolina Gaviria Salazar
Latin American identity continues to bear the marks of colonialism, sovereignty, and the power struggles that still shape its present.
Colombia

The voluntary blindness of Colombia’s self-righteous elite

Sergio Angel
Ideological convictions can become the filter that prevents people from recognizing risks when they come from their own side.
Soccer

Football as a mirror: the World Cup and Democracy

Santiago Rodríguez-Solórzano
Every four years, we think the FIFA World Cup is only about football. But all it takes is a closer look to realize that it also speaks about democracy, inequality, institutions, leadership, and the rules of the game.

Paraguay: When a leader becomes bigger than his party

Steven E. Hendrix
The growing concentration of power around Horacio Cartes has reignited the debate over the independence of Paraguay’s institutions and the need to renew the country’s political leadership.
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