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A family state at the service of Beijing

The democratic collapse of Nicaragua has created the ideal conditions for China to consolidate a model of cooperation based on political control, trade dependence, and resource extraction.
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La dictadura interina en Venezuela

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Balance político de América Latina en 2025

Uruguay

Peripheral realism in Latin America and Europe as a reaction to the intervention in Venezuela

The intervention of the United States in Venezuela reactivated in Latin America and Europe a foreign policy marked by peripheral realism: caution, adaptation to power, and the rhetorical defense of principles without direct confrontation.

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.

Política

Progressivity or adjustment: The foundations of a new Latin American fiscal pact

Latin America faces a fiscal dilemma that cannot be resolved by choosing between raising taxes or cutting spending, but rather by redefining what kind of state it seeks to finance and how to do so in a sustainable and legitimate manner.

Peripheral realism in Latin America and Europe as a reaction to the intervention in Venezuela

The intervention of the United States in Venezuela reactivated in Latin America and Europe a foreign policy marked by peripheral realism: caution, adaptation to power, and the rhetorical defense of principles without direct confrontation.

The real threat to democracy is not...

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.

Argentina

Costa Rica at a crossroads: Historical certainty versus electoral volatility

Costa Rica is facing elections marked by uncertainty and the rise of political personalism, putting one of Latin America’s most stable democracies to the test amid an unprecedented scenario of volatility.

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.

Latin America and the new mining fever: Extraction and global dispute

The new mining fever places Latin America back at the center of the global dispute, deepening extractivism, dependency, and territorial conflict under the language of the energy transition and development.

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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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