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After 40 years of frustrations and resilience, Mercosur is more relevant than ever
After four decades of crises, disagreements, and constant adaptations, Mercosur shows that its greatest strength is not the absence of conflict, but its ability to endure and continue to be a key player in regional integration.
The real threat to democracy is not populism: it is oligarchy
The crisis of democracy does not stem from mobilized masses, but from economic elites who, operating from within, have learned to govern without accountability.
Corporate lobbying pushes society toward collapse
The power of corporate lobbying and the extreme concentration of wealth are deepening inequality and weakening social and democratic foundations, pushing economies toward a growing risk of social fracture.
The politicization of discontent
The advance of new right-wing movements in Latin America cannot be explained solely by ideological cycles; rather, it reflects their ability to transform deep and anomic social discontent into a coherent political project.
Venezuela and the world order
The Venezuelan crisis reveals not a new world order, but rather the persistence of the old principle of the rule of the strongest, now reconfigured into an open struggle over spheres of influence.
Institutional paralysis, multilateral regression, and the deepening of imperial practices
International politics functions like a theatrical play: it organizes narratives, defines characters, and establishes climaxes, generating a permanent dialogue with its audience. This imaginative dimension shapes perceptions and guides specific ways of understanding armed conflicts. Through games of simulation and dissimulation, an interpretive horizon is constructed that legitimizes practices, naturalizes interventions, and stabilizes readings. It is within this relationship between stage, backstage, and audience that a scenario marked by institutional paralysis, multilateral regression, and the deepening of imperial practices is consolidated—anchored in an international law that is corroded and selectively mobilized. Act (1): Regional organizations, multilateralism, and international law First, the ineffectiveness of regional organizations such as UNASUR becomes evident, as they are unable to function as autonomous instances of political coordination and conflict containment. In parallel, we witness the hollowing out of post–Second World War liberal multilateralism, replaced by a logic of exception, unilateralism, and discretionary use of force. This process is aggravated by the United States’ refusal to submit to the Rome Statute, as well as by the American Service-Members’ Protection Act, which institutionalizes legal exceptionalism by preventing U.S. citizens from being tried by the International Criminal Court. This reveals a hierarchical international legal system, deeply asymmetric and far...