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Abstention: from people’s power to voluntary servitude

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’.
Politics
Democracy

The triumph of anger: how La Libertad Avanza capitalized on social frustration in Argentina

La Libertad Avanza turned massive social anger into an electoral engine, achieving a resounding 40.7% and establishing itself as the main channel for expressing Argentine discontent.

Russia’s strategic presence in Central America

With limited resources but clear objectives, Moscow made Nicaragua its military enclave in Central America, seeking to project symbolic influence and challenge the US-led order.

From artificial intelligence to artificial wisdom: AI and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America

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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AI

The regional labor market: Growth without formalization, recession with precarization

When a recession arrives, its effects are usually deeper and more prolonged than those seen during periods in developed economies.

Scenarios of violence in Mexico

Violence in Mexico takes on four distinct territorial faces, revealing a country where the State coexists, competes, or disappears in the face of organized crime.

COP30: New ideas with old visions of climate finance

COP30 arrives laden with new climate-finance promises, yet trapped in the same failed visions that have prevented us from confronting a crisis advancing faster than global political will.

Democracy

The key factors behind the ‘No’ victory in Ecuador.

The ‘No’ victory in Ecuador halted Noboa’s reforms and showed that, despite support for a hard-line approach, citizens reject granting him more power.

The regional labor market: Growth without formalization, recession with precarization

When a recession arrives, its effects are usually deeper and more prolonged than those seen during periods in developed economies.

Democratic experience and authoritarian temptations in Latin...

Citizens’ support for illiberal measures in Latin America reveals a growing acceptance of authoritarianism and an erosion of democratic values.

 The rise of authoritarian capitalism

As democracy erodes, charismatic leaders take advantage of social unrest to consolidate a hybrid model: authoritarian capitalism with a populist face. From Trump to Bukele, passing through Milei and Noboa, a generation emerges that embodies an era where economic stability outweighs democratic values.

Elections

Chile: The collapse of the center and the illusion of a shift to the right

At first glance, Sunday's results appear to signal a Copernican shift in the country's values, indicating—according to all polls based on plausible second-round scenarios—a...

Scenarios of violence in Mexico

Violence in Mexico takes on four distinct territorial faces, revealing a country where the State coexists, competes, or disappears in the face of organized crime.

COP30: New ideas with old visions of climate finance

COP30 arrives laden with new climate-finance promises, yet trapped in the same failed visions that have prevented us from confronting a crisis advancing faster than global political will.

Between sovereignty and silence: Latin America’s contradictions in the face of the Venezuelan crisis

Latin America faces its own contradiction: it condemns external interference in Venezuela, yet remains silent in the face of authoritarianism and the democratic crisis within the country.
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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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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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