“Homo fumus” describes a society dominated by post-truth, ephemeral messages, and empty political narratives, where smoke displaces critical thinking and real solutions.

Disinformation and algorithms are transforming public debate in Latin America. Protecting democracy requires strengthening journalism, platform transparency, media literacy, and institutional trust.

Trump invokes the Venezuelan case to support his election fraud narrative, but the evidence shows that technology has been instrumental in exposing it.

In the era of synthetic images, artificial intelligence blurs the boundary between seeing and believing, eroding shared truth and democratic trust.

Held in the Amazon, COP30 placed at the center of the climate debate a key and long-postponed question: inequality in access to information as a factor that deepens the vulnerability of the communities most affected by the climate crisis.

While inequality in Latin America rises, an elite of the ultra-rich accumulates power and wealth at the expense of weakening democracy.