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Javier Milei

The three messages Milei is sending with Argentina’s labor reform

Leandro Bruni
On the eve of 2027, the ruling party is playing a key card to turn declining inflation into job growth and political support.
Argentina
The midterm elections consolidate Milei and redefine Argentina’s political map
Costa Rica

Costa Rica’s new political landscape

Carolina Ovares Sánchez
The 2026 elections are reshaping politics in Costa Rica, with the presidency and Congress concentrated in a single party and an electorate mobilized around security and institutional change.
Economy

Weak states, low taxes, and high spending: Latin America’s fiscal trap

Carlos Andrés Brando
With historically weak states, low tax revenues, and high-spending populist impulses, Latin America faces a fiscal trap that threatens to perpetuate chronic deficits and new crises.
Culture

The night reggaeton challenged the empire: Bad Bunny and the battle for cultural hegemony

Jesús Tovar
At the heart of the most powerful spectacle in the United States, Bad Bunny turned reggaeton into an act of cultural insurrection that challenged, live and without translation, the hegemony of the empire.
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The Latin American dilemma facing artificial intelligence: adapt or design the future?

José Luis Sampietro Saquicela
Latin America faces a historic crossroads: to adapt to artificial intelligence designed by others, or to create its own technological future with justice and digital sovereignty.

From the gender gap to algorithmic bias: keys to inclusive AI

Cecilia Galván
The revolution of artificial intelligence faces its own mirror: algorithms also inherit the biases and inequalities of the society that creates them. Understanding this is key to building a truly inclusive AI.

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.

Democracy

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From a humanitarian showcase to a migration filter: Brazil’s contradictory role in refugee protection

João Carlos Jarochinski Silva   |   Gisela P. Zapata
Brazil went from being a humanitarian model in the face of the Venezuelan exodus to erecting barriers that turn protection into a filter and asylum into an exception.

Peru: A polarized country?

Carlos Ugo Santander
Peru is not a structurally polarized country, but rather a fragmented and volatile democracy where veto players abound and projects capable of structuring political competition are lacking.
Elections

Mandatory voting in Latin America: between the...

Philipp Rall   |   Lisa Klostermann
Mandatory voting in Latin America reveals a paradox: although the law requires participation, actual turnout depends far more on citizens’ trust than on sanctions.
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’.

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Costa Rica: The birth of a Third Republic? 

Enrique Gomáriz Moraga
The victory of Laura Fernández opens a crossroads: to reform the state in order to usher in a Third Republic, or, in the attempt, to erode the checks and balances that have sustained its democracy.
Gender

The obstacles to the regional care agenda from a feminist perspective

Susana Reina
The care agenda is gaining ground in the regional discourse, but it clashes with a model that continues to rely on the invisible and precarious labor of women.
USA

The map of the aligned: what is the relationship between Latin American countries and the United States?

Ángel Arellano
Latin America is once again dividing between the aligned and the punished on a regional chessboard where Washington imposes loyalties as a condition for stability.

Security does not begin in the courtrooms

Juliana Montani
Security is not imposed through punishment alone: it is built when the law is combined with prevention, community, and shared social responsibility.
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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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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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