Tag: Debates

La pandemia de Covid-19 no ha desincentivado el cruce de migrantes. La reducción de detenidos en el 2020 se debe más al relativo “relajamiento” de las autoridades migratorias, que a la reducción del paso de migrantes.

Co-author Juliana Cesário Alvim Gomes Without the need for tanks - as last time - the military have openly and shamelessly returned to the decision-making table, to well-paid positions and to the spaces that redemocratization seemed to deny them.

O presidente eleito do Peru, Pedro Castillo, parece ter superado os muitos obstáculos colocados no seu caminho por Keiko Fujimori. Entretanto, ele deve se preparar para uma fase muito mais dura, quando várias frentes se abrem para ele em um contexto social onde as demandas por soluções se multiplicam.

The arbitration of national bodies and international observers have declared that the Peruvian elections have been unobjectionable, clean and transparent. But Keiko Fujimori's party, which has been losing the election, has developed a legal strategy under the thesis of massive fraud.

Most formal jobs in Venezuela are anchored to a scale that depends on the minimum wage. The value of the minimum wage is clearly an anomaly: $2.4. It is so, so low that it is enough for less than 1% of the basic food basket.

Will the ruling coalition Frente de Todos be transformed into a front of all against all? Will the opposition alliance Juntos por el Cambio manage to preserve its unity in diversity? It would seem that in Argentina we are in the presence of a presidentialism of collision rather than of coalition.

The IMF estimates a contraction of the world product in 2020 of 3.3% and Latin America is the most affected region. The reduction of the Latin American economy was 7% but with a great inequality between countries and regions.

The movement of people through geographic space, temporarily or permanently, is an intrinsic part of human history. It is not a phenomenon, a sporadic action or something external. It is a constitutive process.

Three million businesses have closed during the pandemic, affecting both formal and informal employment. With the recovery of activity, some 7.5 million people are expected to join the huge pool of Latin Americans working without social security.

Latin America is a particular region in many respects. Of course, politics could not be less so. Unpredictability, ups and downs, euphoria and depression, periods of economic boom and fulminating crisis. Lefts and rights.