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After 30 years of negotiations, it’s time to finalize the EU–Mercosur agreement

Jussi Pakkasvirta   |   Emilio Del Pupo
After three decades of back-and-forth, the EU and Mercosur have finally reached a historic agreement that promises to reshape the economic and geopolitical landscape between Europe and South America.
International Trade
Europe decides, Mercosur waits: The agreement still pending
International Relations
Are EU–CELAC Summits obsolete?
International relations

Diplomacy in Mexico–Spain Relationship

Ernesto Hernández Norzagaray
The demand for an apology from Spain rekindles tensions in Mexican diplomacy, while internal violence and narcopolitics call into question the coherence and direction of the country’s foreign policy.
Artificial intelligence

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.
Elections

End of an era: MAS cedes power after twenty years of hegemony in Bolivia

Salvador Romero Ballivian
The electoral collapse of MAS after two decades of dominance marks the end of a political cycle in Bolivia and opens the way for Rodrigo Paz, who will assume the presidency in November after prevailing in an unprecedented runoff.
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The triumph of anger: how La Libertad Avanza capitalized on social frustration in Argentina

José Norte Sosa
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

César Eduardo Santos
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.

2025 Elections: The two axes of Chilean politics

Isabel Castillo
The Chilean social outbreak of 2019 was the result of an accumulation of frustrations over unfulfilled expectations, a lack of institutional adaptation, and a growing disconnect between citizens and the state.

Democracy

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Abstention: from people’s power to voluntary servitude

Ariel Sribman Mittelman
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’.

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

José Norte Sosa
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.
Authoritarianism

Democratic experience and authoritarian temptations in Latin...

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

 The rise of authoritarian capitalism

Sebastián Godínez Rivera
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

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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.
International relations

Russia’s strategic presence in Central America

César Eduardo Santos
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.
Social crisis

2025 Elections: The two axes of Chilean politics

Isabel Castillo
The Chilean social outbreak of 2019 was the result of an accumulation of frustrations over unfulfilled expectations, a lack of institutional adaptation, and a growing disconnect between citizens and the state.

Scenarios of violence in Mexico

Carlos Barrachina
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.
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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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