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What is presented as scientific consensus can become an act of power when it is applied without considering the bodies, cultures, and inequalities it seeks to organize.
In 2026, Guatemala will not elect a president, but it will choose those who will hold in their hands the rules, the referees, and the limits of democracy.
Mexico reduced poverty without extraordinary economic growth: it did so by challenging the idea that the market, on its own, guarantees social progress.
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.
When the person who should be the president’s main ally decides to confront him publicly, Bolivian politics once again reveals a recurring fracture: that of the vice president who turns the office into a platform for opposition.
The silence of Kast on gender issues does not imply neutrality, but rather a concrete risk of the gradual dismantling of the rights won by women and dissident groups in Chile.
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.
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.
Amid anemic economic growth, rising debt, and mounting internal and external pressures, Mexico faces in 2026 the challenge of governing scarcity without eroding its fragile political and institutional balance.
The detention of Cilia Flores alongside Nicolás Maduro reignites the debate over the real power of first ladies in Latin America and lays bare how a role without formal oversight can become a key political actor within authoritarian regimes.