Democracy

The democratic challenge of turning disenchantment into progress

Michelle Muschett
Latin America's great challenge is to renew its democracies by transforming growing public disillusionment into an opportunity for progress, inclusion, and stronger institutions.
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Argentina reopens the environmental debate: Mining or water?

María Milagros Assandri
The reform of the Glacier Law has reignited Argentina’s debate over whether to promote mining as an engine of economic growth or preserve strategic freshwater reserves for the future.
Elections

This divided country needs prudence and reflection

Fidel Cano
The closely contested presidential runoff laid bare a deeply divided Colombia, one that must prioritize prudence, dialogue, and moderation to avoid further polarization.
Internet

The dictatorship of the indicator: The dilemma of police management and security governance in Latin America

Henry M. Rodríguez
The obsession with crime statistics can embellish official success stories while perpetuating the dynamics of violence and weakening security governance in Latin America.
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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.

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.

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.

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Petrostates, electrostates, and the new geopolitics of energy

Juliana Montani
The energy transition is redefining global power, shifting geopolitical competition away from oil and toward electricity, energy storage technologies, and strategic minerals.

Cooperation for repression? The case of China in Central America

César Eduardo Santos
The study of Chinese influence in Latin America has undoubtedly focused on the economic and trade relations between the Asian giant and the countries...
Policy

The pulse of Latin American democracy

Manuel Alcántara
Democracy in Latin America is showing signs of a slight recovery, but remains characterised by stagnation and deep divides between countries.
Democracy

Crime and Democracy: Latin America’s Crossroads

Marcela Ríos Tobar
The expansion of organized crime in Latin America no longer only threatens security; it also silently erodes institutions and puts democracy across the region at risk.

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Concern over democracy in Latin America is rising

Enrique Gomáriz Moraga
Democracy faces growing pressures from polarization, insecurity, and citizen disillusionment, reigniting the debate over the roles of the State and citizenship in strengthening democratic governance.
Global South

How the Global South anticipated the rules of trade in times of uncertainty

Danilo Desiderio
In a world shaped by fragmentation and uncertainty, Global South economies developed a degree of trade flexibility that is now becoming a model for the traditional powers.
Communication

Raising our gaze: Rome and the power of symbols

Pedro José Tocuyo
The photograph that never appeared revealed the true power behind Leo XIV’s visit to Spain: the Vatican’s ability to construct meaning even through absence.

The fraud narrative and its scapegoat: Technology

Jesús Delgado Valery
Technology has become the perfect scapegoat for fueling electoral fraud narratives that erode democratic trust without the need for evidence.
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