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Fabián Echegaray

Fabián Echegaray es director de Market Analysis, consultora de opinión pública con sede en Brasil, y actual presidente de WAPOR Latinoamérica, capítulo regional de la asociación mundial de estudios de opinión pública: www.waporlatinoamerica.org.

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Bolsonarization of Kirchnerism

Coauthor Ezequiel Raimondo The current governments in Argentina and Brazil are much more similar than they would admit. At least, in terms of how they conceive society's functioning and role.

Brazil: end of the “barbarian parenthesis” illusion?

Instead of being reversed, as Bolsonaro intended, gender equality, female empowerment, environmental defense and the independence of the judiciary and other institutions were strengthened.

Digitalization and Privacy: beyond surveillance capitalism?

This is nothing new that the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the digitalization of everyday life, intensifying the online channeling of our activities or forcing a...

Awakening the voice of the democrats

In just a few days, a document designed to bring together internal positions in the university environment became the catalyst for a consensus in favor of institutionalism on the part of nearly one million Brazilians who signed it.

A continent of insomniacs, stressed out and prone to vices?

One of the assumptions acclaimed in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic is that it left a mark on the mood and health habits of the inhabitants of the planet.

The entire government to businessmen?

Due to different cultural aspects, many of us were used to dissociate political power from market influences. But today, when the value of Apple or Amazon exceeds the GDP of major countries, it becomes difficult to defend such division.

Opening the gender inequality Matryoshka

Institutional advances such as quotas or sanctions for unequal treatment between genders establish a principle capable of ordering other spheres, but they make us run the risk of not seeing the very origin of inequalities.

Contradictions facing climate change

Seven out of ten Latin Americans consider global warming a serious threat to humanity. However, they blame individuals for the degradation while exculpating those who have resources and real responsibilities on the matter.

The pandemic legacies to the sustainable agenda

As the pandemic progressed, the initial proposals for green shocks and climate-just transitions fell by the wayside and led to an adjustment in lifestyles that resulted in a smaller environmental footprint.

After covid, several possible futures

One year after the health emergency and the beginning of the restrictive measures, speculations about the post-post-covid future are beginning to emerge. Will we go back to living as in the past? Or will we see the changes experienced during the pandemic perpetuate, affecting how and how much we work, educate ourselves, feed ourselves and socialize?