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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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Polarization

A balance of 2022 in twelve news

Although Latin America is very heterogeneous and complex, the headlines that reflected the events in the region during the year that is ending can...
Elections

Elections are not the problem

Although democracy is not at its best, elections do not seem to be at the core of reasons for concern to assume that democracy is undergoing a state of fatigue.
Polarization

Soccer and politics: the ins and outs of polarization

Politics not only cannot be understood without the uses and understandings of the soccer universe, but it also makes use of them for its performance.
Elections

Lula, perseverance and the end of Bolsonarism

Lula has the support of a political party he founded four decades ago, which maintains a certain solvency in the political landscape and has the support of some traditional Brazilian politicians.
Internet

Costa Rica, Institutionalism on Clearance

Costa Rica has broken with certain past practices such as bipartisanship and the survival of a traditional political class and has fully immersed itself in the new political times that have diluted the relatively stable frameworks that existed until a few years ago.
Internet

Exceptionality normalized

The recent Colombian elections and the predictions regarding the outcome of the Brazilian elections in October allow us to ask, as we pointed out fifteen years ago, what is the meaning of these changes.
Internet

Why don’t you keep quiet?

In view of the previous failures and the murky preamble to the next Summit of the Americas, there is an urgent need to build a new logic of interaction.
Authoritarianism

Witnesses who are hostages

It would seem that the war in Eastern Europe, except for the impact of the related economic crisis and the expectations of a "new global order", is a foreign issue for Latin America.
Internet

Ephemeral leadership

The pace at which political activity tends to devour those who engage in it is an issue about which we have fewer data than we should.
Corruption

Organized crime, extractivism, and lack of rule of law in Guatemala

Guatemala is a country in which the State has been captured for decades by an alliance between business and organized crime, on the one hand, and the political class on the other, in a clear interconnection.
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