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More productivity with less employment? The labor challenge facing Latin America

While in developed countries productivity drives high-quality employment, in Latin America technological progress is increasing efficiency at the cost of greater informality and less formal employment.
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Incertidumbre electoral en Honduras

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El perfil internacional del México de Sheinbaum

Uruguay

If the narrative is not enough, it is time to review governance

The citizens’ rejection of Noboa’s consultation laid bare an uncomfortable truth: without concrete results in security, health, and the economy, no political narrative can be sustained.

COP30: Who has access to the information needed to confront the climate crisis?

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.

María Corina Machado: a controversial Nobel Peace Prize

The granting of the Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado reopens the debate over the coherence between her democratic struggle and a confrontational political discourse aligned with the far right and international interventionism.

Política

From Boric to Kast: expectations, realities, and the limits of profound change

The decisive victory of Kast reflects the electorate’s shift toward a demand for order and certainty, highlighting the limits of political promises and the real capabilities of governance.

If the narrative is not enough, it is time to review governance

The citizens’ rejection of Noboa’s consultation laid bare an uncomfortable truth: without concrete results in security, health, and the economy, no political narrative can be sustained.

COP30: Who has access to the information...

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.

María Corina Machado: a controversial Nobel Peace...

The granting of the Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado reopens the debate over the coherence between her democratic struggle and a confrontational political discourse aligned with the far right and international interventionism.

Argentina

Mexico: the crisis of the countryside

The protests by producers and transporters highlight a structural crisis in the Mexican countryside, marked by insecurity, food dependency, and the absence of a long-term agricultural policy.

COP30: Who has access to the information needed to confront the climate crisis?

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.

María Corina Machado: a controversial Nobel Peace Prize

The granting of the Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado reopens the debate over the coherence between her democratic struggle and a confrontational political discourse aligned with the far right and international interventionism.

Chile: the end of the dictatorship–democracy cleavage

The 2025 presidential election confirms a profound political realignment in Chile: the historic dictatorship–democracy cleavage no longer structures voting behavior, having been displaced by a new axis of conflict that emerged from the cycle opened in 2019.

El resumen semanal de los temas más importantes de la región

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Global AI governance moves forward without Latin America, which adopts foreign rules while its voice remains absent from the tables where the digital future is decided.
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Executive Director of the IPSE Intelligence research institute. Researcher in public opinion, discursive framing in the media and computer sciences.
Political scientist and economist. PhD from the University of Toronto. Senior Editor at Global Brief Magazine. Social Research Design Specialist at RIWI Corp. (Real-Time Interactive World-Wide Intelligence).
Director of CIEPS - International Center for Political and Social Studies, AIP-Panama. Professor Emeritus at the University of Salamanca and UPB (Medellín). Latest books: "The profession of politician" (Tecnos Madrid, 2020) and "Traces of a tired democracy" (Océano Atlántico Editores, 2024).
Professor and researcher at the Institute of Social and Political Studies of the State Universityt of Rio de Janeiro (IESP/UERJ). Coordinator of the South American Political Observatory (OPSA). PhD in Political Science from Vanderbilt University.
Historian and professor at Chapman University (California). PHd from Harvard University. His writings on Latin American politics have appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post, among other international media.
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