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Cooperation for repression? The case of China in Central America

César Eduardo Santos
The study of Chinese influence in Latin America has undoubtedly focused on the economic and trade relations between the Asian giant and the countries of the region. While there is a considerable body of research on, for example, China’s soft power, analyses of the country’s political and institutional influence in the region are less common. Among Beijing’s instruments of political internationalization are people-to-people diplomacy, Chinese paradiplomacy, and the multilateral engagement of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Latin America through forums such as the China-CELAC Forum and its various subforums, which facilitate exchanges with media outlets, think tanks, political parties,...
International Relations
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Global South

How the Global South anticipated the rules of trade in times of uncertainty

Danilo Desiderio
In a world shaped by fragmentation and uncertainty, Global South economies developed a degree of trade flexibility that is now becoming a model for the traditional powers.
Communication

Raising our gaze: Rome and the power of symbols

Pedro José Tocuyo
The photograph that never appeared revealed the true power behind Leo XIV’s visit to Spain: the Vatican’s ability to construct meaning even through absence.
Mexico

Mexican drug trafficking: A matter of transnational crime or national sovereignty?

Ernesto Hernández Norzagaray
The extradition request for Mexican officials over alleged ties to drug trafficking pits national sovereignty against international cooperation in the fight against transnational crime.
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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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The Pope’s Encyclical on Artificial Intelligence: The Risks the Church Sees

Constanza Cilley
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical on artificial intelligence warns of the risks of disinformation, job displacement, and the concentration of technological power in the hands of a few.

The fraud narrative and its scapegoat: Technology

Jesús Delgado Valery
Technology has become the perfect scapegoat for fueling electoral fraud narratives that erode democratic trust without the need for evidence.
Democracy

Crime and Democracy: Latin America’s Crossroads

Marcela Ríos Tobar
The expansion of organized crime in Latin America no longer only threatens security; it also silently erodes institutions and puts democracy across the region at risk.
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.

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Colombia: Toward a national fracture?

Eduardo Pizarro Leongómez
The unprecedented contest between political extremes is testing Colombia’s democratic stability amid a context of growing polarization.
Energy transition

A just transition must speak about gender

Loraine L. Lora  |   Juliana Andrea Romero Satizabal   |   Melina Quintero Santos
A just transition is not merely about replacing one economic activity with another; it is also about addressing the social inequalities that the previous model helped to entrench.
Artificial intelligence

The end of anonymity: AI lowers the price of surveillance and makes freedom more expensive

Yaldimar Ruíz
Artificial intelligence is dismantling digital anonymity and turning mass surveillance into an increasingly inexpensive tool, while exercising political freedom is becoming more costly and risky.

Anger and hatred as drivers of the vote

Leandro Bruni
In a Latin America marked by disenchantment, anger, fear, and rejection have become key forces for mobilizing voters, albeit at the cost of weaker governments and unstable public support.
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