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María Corina Machado: a controversial Nobel Peace Prize

Antonio Rando
The granting of the Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado reopens the debate over the coherence between her democratic struggle and a confrontational political discourse aligned with the far right and international interventionism.
Democracy
The intricate road to democracy in Venezuela: María Corina Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize
Development

Mexico: the crisis of the countryside

Ernesto Hernández Norzagaray
The protests by producers and transporters highlight a structural crisis in the Mexican countryside, marked by insecurity, food dependency, and the absence of a long-term agricultural policy.
Elections

How is Kast’s victory to be understood?

Juan Carlos Arellano
The resounding victory of José Antonio Kast reflects the emergence of a new political cleavage in Chile, marked by order, security, and the crisis of the state, which displaces the historic democracy–authoritarianism axis.
Elections

Chile: the end of the dictatorship–democracy cleavage

David Altman
The 2025 presidential election confirms a profound political realignment in Chile: the historic dictatorship–democracy cleavage no longer structures voting behavior, having been displaced by a new axis of conflict that emerged from the cycle opened in 2019.
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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.

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The dangers of an imposed regime change in Venezuela

Emmanuel Guerisoli
An external military intervention to force a regime change in Venezuela could trigger a scenario of prolonged instability, internal violence, and state fragmentation, with consequences that would be difficult to reverse for the country and the region.

Chilean presidential runoff: will history repeat or reinvent itself?

Orestes E. Díaz Rodríguez
The Chilean runoff revives the dilemma between a worn-down governing coalition and a right wing that arouses democratic misgivings, raising the question of whether the country will repeat its history or open a new path.
Democracy

Why is organized crime becoming increasingly serious...

Douglas Farah   |   Pablo Zeballos
For decades, drug cartels have wielded profound political influence in Latin America. With the evolution and diversification of new illicit markets that move trillions of dollars, the corrupting capacity of criminal networks challenges the survival of democratic institutions.
Democracy

Revamping democracy: from unfulfilled promises to resilient...

Michelle Muschett
On International Democracy Day, Latin America faces the challenge of revamping a system worn down by inequality and misinformation, but one that remains essential for resilient and equitable human development.

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The footprint of Chinese interference

César Eduardo Santos
The gap between China's rhetoric of "non-interference" and its practices of pressure and intimidation is evident in many regions of the Global South.
Elections

The country where no one accepts losing: anatomy of the Honduran electoral collapse

Cecilia Rodríguez Balmaceda
Honduras faces a new electoral legitimacy crisis, with an uncertain vote count that revives old ghosts of institutional distrust and long-standing political tensions.
Migration

Why do immigrants support anti-immigration policies?

Denise Cogo   |   Lucas Zanetti
Immigrants' support for anti-immigration policies reveals how internal hierarchies, moral narratives, and digital dynamics shape new forms of belonging and exclusion within diasporas themselves.

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.
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The hidden face of AI governance: the invisible rules keeping Latin...

Artificial intelligence
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.
Jerónimo Giorgi

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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.
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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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