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Manuel Alcántara

Director of CIEPS - International Center for Political and Social Studies, AIP-Panama. Honorary Emeritus Professor at the University of Salamanca and UPB (Medellín). Latest books: "El oficio de politico" (Tecnos Madrid, 2020), "Huellas de la Democracy Fatigada" (Océano Atlántico Editores, 2024) and "Cuando la política dejó de ser lo que era" (Océano Atlántico Editores, 2025).

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Disinformation

Propaganda in the Digital Era

The incorporation of artificial intelligence in advertising strategy has led to a notable increase in misinformation with today's hyperrealism.
Elections

Insisting on the State

Today, the discussion in the public square is absent, not only in the face of any electoral call with the consequent trivialization of the offers, but also when seeking solutions to the problems of society.
Chile

Chile’s 9/11: Fifty Years Later

September 11, 1973, marked not only the violent end of a political process in Chile, which had to bear its dramatic imprint for decades, but also had a significant impact internationally.
Political leaders

Political power in the shadow

The impulse to maintain power vicariously is a long-standing issue present in politics, even when it adopts democratic forms of government in which there is a minimum of assured competition.
Political leaders

Limits of Power

There are currently three worrying cases in Latin America in which the restriction of power is being questioned for reasons of strict application of its temporal limitation.
Political leaders

Leadership and parties: a tortuous relationship

The relationship between leadership and parties is a long-standing issue in politics that is exacerbated in presidential regimes.
Corruption

Incompetence to practice politics

Skills and knowledge are components that are required in any profession. So, the level of training of politicians to hold office should be evaluated.
Political parties

The state of democracy in Latin America

The Summit for Summit 2023 is being held virtually on March 29 and 30. It is an excellent pretext to reflect on the state of democracy in Latin America.
Policy

Not every presidential interruption is a coup d’état

The use of the concept of "coup d'état", beyond its political-constitutional conceptualization, tends to enter the realm of narrative.
Social crisis

Exhausted societies and fatigued democracies

The society of exhaustion consolidates the abundance with respect to formulas that, chronologically speaking are not so old, would seem to carry an unbearable longevity.
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