War

The War in the Middle East: The Destruction of a Fiction

Juliana Montani
The conflict lays bare the exhaustion of a global model based on stability, cheap energy, and supply chains optimized for cost.
Why and how does the war in Iran impact Latin America?
The Strait of Hormuz and the Fragility of the Global Energy System
Mexico

The official narrative on security collides with reality in Mexico

Carlos Barrachina
Although the government boasts a sharp drop in homicides, the rise in disappearances, the expansion of criminal control, and territorial violence paint a far more alarming picture.
Elections

Presidential elections still without results in Peru

Milagros Campos
The scenarios that open up depend on how much the political system can absorb the discontent arising from the result of this first presidential election.
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.
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AI

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The Latin American dilemma facing artificial intelligence: adapt or design the future?

José Luis Sampietro Saquicela
Latin America faces a historic crossroads: to adapt to artificial intelligence designed by others, or to create its own technological future with justice and digital sovereignty.

From the gender gap to algorithmic bias: keys to inclusive AI

Cecilia Galván
The revolution of artificial intelligence faces its own mirror: algorithms also inherit the biases and inequalities of the society that creates them. Understanding this is key to building a truly inclusive AI.

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.

Democracy

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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.

Colombia: the battle for the center

Sandra Botero
With no clear majorities and no room to move toward the extremes, the candidates are focusing their strategy on appealing to a moderate electorate that will decide the election.
Inequality

How much wealth concentration can democracy withstand?

Verónica Paz Arauco
Extreme wealth concentration not only deepens inequality, but also threatens the very survival of democracy by turning political power into a privilege of economic elites.
Corruption

Structural corruption and fragile democracies: the Latin...

Hugo Borsani
In Latin America, corruption is not an anomaly of the democratic system, but rather a structural cog that weakens it, fuels populism, and perpetuates inequality.

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The Strait of Hormuz and the Fragility of the Global Energy System

William A. Clavijo
The blockade of the Strait of Hormuz shows how a single critical chokepoint can destabilize the global energy system, exposing its profound fragility in the face of geopolitical conflicts.
Brazil

When naming is intervening: Terrorism, organized crime, and sovereignty in Latin America

Thallita Lima
Labeling organized crime as terrorism does not only toughen penalties: it redefines the threat, reconfigures the state's responses, and strains sovereignty in Latin America.
Gender

Feminism: Between legal advances and political backlash

Susana Reina
Although feminism has accumulated legal advances in the region, the rise of political and cultural resistance calls into question their effective translation into women’s everyday lives.

Voting is no longer enough: The crisis of contemporary democracy

Jesús Delgado Valery
The report warns that global democracy is experiencing a historic setback, in which elections no longer guarantee democratic systems in the face of the sustained advance of autocratization.
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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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