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The Challenges of Panamanian Democracy in the Age of Trump

Under pressure from Washington and unfounded accusations, Panama cedes ground to the United States and breaks key agreements with China, marking a geopolitical shift in the control of the interoceanic canal.

Disappearances and humanity in Mexico

Recently, much of the discussion about the disappearances of people in Mexico has revolved around the activation—by the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances—of...

Without regulation, digital platforms amplify conflicts and undermine freedom and democracy

The advocates of deregulation, led by the billionaire tech giants, spread the false idea that controlling social networks is censorship and use false concepts of freedom to increase their profits.

In Peru, under every stone lies a political party

In the Andean country, a record level of party fragmentation has been made official: a total of 43 political parties have been authorized to run for the presidency in the upcoming elections.
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Biodiversity

Biodiversity and Health: Thinking Broadly and Working Efficiently

Biodiversity is an economic, social, and environmental asset of great importance for all countries, encompassing complex interactions from the genetic to the planetary scale.

Mining is turning the Amazon into a desert

Imagine an arid, desolate and barren landscape, this is what the planet Mars looks like. For many scientists, and other entrepreneurs like Elon Musk, Mars could, in the future and with a lot of effort, be terraformed, as the action of modifying a hostile environment to make it habitable for human beings is called. Now, what if I told you that, right now, we are turning our Amazon, through an activity like gold mining, into a Martian landscape? This is happening at great speed at this very moment. The Amazon, the lungs of the world, is turning into a desert Gold mining in the Amazon is not new, but its environmental impact has intensified in the last two decades. Large areas of the Amazon rainforest have been deforested, and soils have been destroyed due to mining, leaving behind a devastated landscape that resembles a desert. This reverse terraforming process not only...

Why are Indigenous lands key to conserving biodiversity and mitigating climate change?

True inclusion implies respecting the diversity of visions and allowing Indigenous peoples to be the protagonists of their own development, without imposing conservation models.

Democracy challenges

Democracy: The Worst System of Government?

Some governments, in the name of democracy, make public decisions that ironically can end up destroying it and even unleashing demons upon the world.

The political playing field

The ground for politics in the terms in which it was defined during the last century is precarious and on the verge of vanishing completely.

Decline of the rule of law in...

The rise of authoritarianism, restrictions on fundamental rights and the ineffectiveness of the justice systems are factors contributing to their decline.

Transitions from a Democratic Government

The world is seeing the emergence of characters who challenge the status quo, promote anti-establishment agendas, and promise what they call a 'true democracy,' albeit one characterized by authoritarian overtones.

Disinformation

Mexico: falsehood is a constant in the debates

Mexico: falsehood is a constant in the debates

Electoral evaluation of 2024: more disinformation and less capacity to combat it

Although for years various academic and governmental institutions, think tanks and specialists have been working to design measures to combat disinformation, the mechanisms to influence elections are becoming increasingly sophisticated.

Misery of Information

It is important to avoid superficial instrumentalism that promotes technological innovations in the digital era and instead focus on the political and economic factors shaping the dominant mode of information production.

Latin America in the face of climate change

The synergy between collective awareness and concrete political action is emerging as one of the keys to effectively addressing environmental challenges, aiming to mitigate their adverse effects and promote sustainable development.
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Professor at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá) and PhD candidate in Law at Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Specializing in migration movements, gender studies and Venezuelan politics.
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).
Political scientist. Professor and researcher at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). PhD in Political Science from IUPERJ (current IESP / UERJ). Researcher at the Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI) - Núcleo Europa.
Associate Researcher at the Center for the Study of State and Society - CEDES (Buenos Aires). Author of "Latin America Global Insertion, Energy Transition, and Sustainable Development", Cambridge University Press, 2020.
PhD in Health Promotion. Member of the International Advisory Board of The Lancet Global Health and member of the Steering Committee of the Thematic Working Group on Health Systems in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings of Health Systems Global Health.