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Corporate lobbying pushes society toward collapse

Gregorio Vidal
The power of corporate lobbying and the extreme concentration of wealth are deepening inequality and weakening social and democratic foundations, pushing economies toward a growing risk of social fracture.
Inequality
Income concentration increases and poverty persists
Economy
Is the corporate lobby responsible for inequality?
Costa Rica

Costa Rica at a crossroads: Historical certainty versus electoral volatility

Eugenio Herrera Balharry
Costa Rica is facing elections marked by uncertainty and the rise of political personalism, putting one of Latin America’s most stable democracies to the test amid an unprecedented scenario of volatility.
Politics

Mexico’s challenges in 2026

Ernesto Hernández Norzagaray
Amid anemic economic growth, rising debt, and mounting internal and external pressures, Mexico faces in 2026 the challenge of governing scarcity without eroding its fragile political and institutional balance.
Mining

Latin America and the new mining fever: Extraction and global dispute

Héctor López Terán
The new mining fever places Latin America back at the center of the global dispute, deepening extractivism, dependency, and territorial conflict under the language of the energy transition and development.
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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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The politicization of discontent

Diego M. Raus
The advance of new right-wing movements in Latin America cannot be explained solely by ideological cycles; rather, it reflects their ability to transform deep and anomic social discontent into a coherent political project.

Venezuela and the world order

Pablo Ospina Peralta
The Venezuelan crisis reveals not a new world order, but rather the persistence of the old principle of the rule of the strongest, now reconfigured into an open struggle over spheres of influence.
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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Institutional paralysis, multilateral regression, and the deepening of imperial practices

Pablo Victor Fontes   |   Víctor Cabral
International politics functions like a theatrical play: it organizes narratives, defines characters, and establishes climaxes, generating a permanent dialogue with its audience. This imaginative...
Climate change

COP30: Promises, lies, and hopes

Leonardo Stanley
Between broken promises and the weight of the fossil fuel lobby, COP30 once again revealed the gap between climate urgency and the political will to leave oil behind.
Mercosur

The agreement between the European Union and Mercosur: What happened and what comes next

Nicolás Pose-Ferraro
After years of blockages and renegotiations, the European Union approved the agreement with Mercosur, yet the decisive battle—the ratification—has only just begun.

Come get me!

Sebastián Godínez Rivera
When Nicolás Maduro challenged the world with a “Come get me!”, he did not imagine that this shout would mark the beginning of the end of his power and open an uncertain transition for Venezuela.
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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.
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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.
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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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