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Imperialism

Imperialist recipes besiege Latin American economies

Marcelo Halperín
Trade pressures from the United States, disguised as bilateral agreements, erode multilateralism and deepen Latin America's economic vulnerability.
International relations
Democratic erosion in the United States: a red alert for the region
Imperialism
The lost Art of the Deal
Policy

2025: America in realignment

Luis Miguel Santibáñez Suárez
The year 2025 left democracies alive but exhausted and a reconfigured political map. Amid fears and emergencies, the majority chose security. Are we facing a drift toward a punitive order?
Democracy

Unfulfilled expectations of democracy in Latin America

Azul Aguiar Aguilar
If the system does not guarantee freedoms, justice, participation, and equality, other actors—often authoritarian and populist—will fill that void.
Politics

2025: The end of an era? Where? For whom?

Manuel Alcántara
2025 looms as a pivotal year in which the old order no longer works, but the new has yet to find a place, protagonists, or a shared sense of meaning.
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AI

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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.

Artificial intelligence in electoral campaigns: How and for what

Jesús Delgado Valery
Artificial intelligence is redefining electoral campaigns: it can either strengthen democracy or become its greatest threat.

From whales to algorithms: why Latin America can lead a nature-inspired AI

Amir Lebdioui  |   Ángel Melguizo   |   Victor Muñoz
Biomimicry could pave the way to more efficient and sustainable AI architectures. Latin America, with 60% of global biodiversity, has strategic advantages to lead this transition, provided it strengthens infrastructure, regulation and regional scientific cooperation.

Democracy

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Latin America 2025: protest voting amid fragmentation and democratic erosion

Flavia Freidenberg
In a 2025 marked by punitive polls, fragmented systems, and democracies under pressure, Latin America confirmed that voting remains an instrument of change, but no longer a guarantee of stability or democratic strengthening.

Who controls power? Judicial elections in Bolivia and Mexico

Nataly Vargas Gamboa
Between the promise of democratizing justice and the risk of subjecting it to political power, judicial elections in Bolivia and Mexico reopen a key question.
Brazil

Democracy on Trial

Marjorie Corrêa Marona
Brazilian democracy is not only putting a former president on trial: it is measuring its own capability to withstand and learn from the crisis.
Venezuela

The intricate road to democracy in Venezuela:...

María Isabel Puerta Riera
The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to María Corina Machado recognizes her peaceful struggle for Venezuelan democracy and rekindles hope for change in the country.

COP30

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Do not shoot at science

Victoria Mendizábal
Attacks on science are growing in Argentina and worldwide. Why defending knowledge, dignity, and social purpose in research is vital for democracy and the future.
Populism

In the name of God: the messianic nature of populism

Helcimara Telles  |   Vinicius Baptista Lopes   |   Horrana Grieg Oliveira
Bolsonaro and Chávez, from opposite ideological poles, share the same political resource: the use of religious symbols and narratives to construct themselves as messianic leaders and legitimize power projects that strain liberal democracy.
Economy

More productivity with less employment? The labor challenge facing Latin America

León Padilla   |   José Ignacio Gordillo
While in developed countries productivity drives high-quality employment, in Latin America technological progress is increasing efficiency at the cost of greater informality and less formal employment.

A strategic opportunity: The final stretch of the Mercosur–European Union agreement

Ramón Casilda Béjar   |   Ignacio Bertesaghi
In its decisive stage, the agreement between Mercosur and the EU is emerging as a historic opportunity to enhance competitiveness, modernize institutions, and reposition the South American bloc geopolitically.
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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.
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).
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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.
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.
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