Despite its deep economic crisis, Cuba retains an international influence greater than its material weight thanks to a broad network of governments, political parties, trade unions, and social organizations that support the regime.

The foreign policy agenda of the new US administration is an incoherent mix of illiberal mercantilism, isolationism, and revisionism.

The "far/extreme" right is often presented as the primary threat to modern democracies. However, extremism is much more diverse.

Twenty-first century democracies cannot ignore the lessons of Cold War disinformation campaigns, reformulated by their autocratic enemies in the current digital age.

From an ideological and normative point of view, the Global South does not naturally identify the diversity of nations of the formerly called Third World.

Signs of a global shift towards conservative policies, from the illiberal right and left, are increasingly visible.

In a dictatorship, elections serve as an ornament for the formal validation of the authoritarian government.

The plebiscite manipulation artifact to be voted in Cuba this September 25 must be evaluated not only in a legal or moral sense, but also in very concrete socio-political terms.

In the complex situation we are currently experiencing, it is possible to identify some global trends of an economic, political, social, and cultural nature, as well as the characteristics that these trends assume when they land in Latin America.

In recent years, non-democratic forms of government have emerged that use legitimization and manipulation as resources for the preservation of power. These new despotisms base part of their resilience on combining autocracy with elements of democracy.