Colombia

The Plan Colombia has fulfilled its purpose: now the country needs a new strategy

Steven E. Hendrix
After transforming a country that once seemed on the brink of collapse, Colombia now faces the challenge of adapting its security policies to increasingly complex and transnational criminal threats.
International Relations
The ridiculous war between Ecuador and Colombia
Elections
Politics shaken, it is time to think about a country for everyone
Nicaragua

Nicaragua and the geopolitics of isolation

Enrique Martínez
The regime’s isolation has relegated Nicaragua to a position of growing international irrelevance, weakening its capacity for influence and its integration into regional dynamics.
International relations

Crisis, resilience, or inertia in Latin American regionalism

María Victoria Alvarez
Far from disappearing, the region’s integration mechanisms are seeking to adapt to political fragmentation through more flexible arrangements that preserve minimum spaces for cooperation and governance.
Climate change

The climate crisis is already on the table: The hidden cost of feeding Latin America

José Julio Villalba
The growing frequency of extreme climate events and persistent inequality are threatening access to healthy food in Latin America, putting at risk the progress achieved in nutrition and public health.
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AI

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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.

The hidden face of AI governance: the invisible rules keeping Latin America out of the digital future

Marta Cantero Gamito
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.

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.

Democracy

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Biokleptocratic AI companies pose an existential risk

Irene Torres   |   Elyse Hauser
'' The rise of artificial intelligence entails significant environmental and social costs that, according to its critics, threaten essential common resources and deepen the concentration of power.

Ultimately, how many deportees disappear from the official figures?

Gustavo Dias   |   Julio D’Angelo Davies
Discrepancies in official deportation figures cast doubt on widely publicized records and suggest that thousands of cases are missing from public statistics.
Autocracy

Voting is no longer enough: The crisis...

Jesús Delgado Valery
The report warns that global democracy is experiencing a historic setback, in which elections no longer guarantee democratic systems in the face of the sustained advance of autocratization.
Inequality

The day the obvious was “discovered”

María Eugenia Luarca
The world “discovers,” with an official stamp, what was already known: that growth without limits destroys life—and the real novelty is the crack it opens to change the narrative.

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Peru: an artificially polarized country

Carlos Ugo Santander
With days remaining before the runoff election, the growing number of undecided voters reveals that electoral polarization does not reflect Peru’s deep political and social fragmentation.
Elections

Colombia, a divided country

María Lucia Jaimes
The first round confirmed the country's polarization and left De la Espriella with an advantage heading into a runoff in which centrist votes will be decisive.
Climate change

A girl, a snake, and the right to care for the forest 

Sílvia Maria da Silveira Loureiro
The case of an Indigenous girl brought a crucial debate before the Inter-American Court: recognizing that health and care also depend on ancestral knowledge and the territory.

The challenge of rebuilding the collective to strengthen Latin American democracy

Dolores Gandulfo
Growing public disillusionment with democracies that are unable to guarantee welfare, representation and a shared future is putting Latin America’s political and social stability to the test.
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