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How mineral extraction, digital capitalism and technological dependence reinforce neocolonial inequalities across Latin America.
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El voto latino y su peso en las mid-term 2026

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¿Por qué las democracias se debilitan desde dentro?

Uruguay

Lula: the epic of victory and its limits

Lula’s victory in Brazil ushers in a new phase marked by the right’s parliamentary strength and pressure from an increasingly adverse regional landscape.

Care Day: the invisible value of undervalued work

Care work sustains life and the economy, yet in Latin America it remains marked by precarious working conditions and gender inequality that keep its true social value invisible.

From exception to rule: how the runoff election is changing democracy

The runoff has become the norm in Latin America, where political fragmentation and polarization are putting electoral legitimacy to the test.

Política

Defeat as the engine of victory

Lula’s comeback cannot be explained by triumphalism or a marketing formula, but rather by the rejection of Flávio Bolsonaro and a grassroots mobilization that turned the threat into votes.

Lula: the epic of victory and its limits

Lula’s victory in Brazil ushers in a new phase marked by the right’s parliamentary strength and pressure from an increasingly adverse regional landscape.

Care Day: the invisible value of undervalued...

Care work sustains life and the economy, yet in Latin America it remains marked by precarious working conditions and gender inequality that keep its true social value invisible.

From exception to rule: how the runoff...

The runoff has become the norm in Latin America, where political fragmentation and polarization are putting electoral legitimacy to the test.

Argentina

Brazil rediscovers its antidotes to democratic backsliding

The mobilization of civil society in the streets and on social media demonstrated that citizen participation can halt the advance of authoritarianism and defend democracy in the face of political disenchantment.

Care Day: the invisible value of undervalued work

Care work sustains life and the economy, yet in Latin America it remains marked by precarious working conditions and gender inequality that keep its true social value invisible.

From exception to rule: how the runoff election is changing democracy

The runoff has become the norm in Latin America, where political fragmentation and polarization are putting electoral legitimacy to the test.

Brazilian presidential runoff: Lula’s final reinvention?

With Flávio Bolsonaro emerging stronger after the first round, Lula faces a decisive runoff that will test his ability to reinvent himself and the future of Brazilian democracy.
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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. 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).
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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