Tag: Ideas
After four decades of crises, disagreements, and constant adaptations, Mercosur shows that its greatest strength is not the absence of conflict, but its ability to endure and continue to be a key player in regional integration.
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.
The crisis of democracy does not stem from mobilized masses, but from economic elites who, operating from within, have learned to govern without accountability.
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.
The advance of new right-wing movements in Latin America cannot be explained solely by ideological cycles; rather, it reflects their ability to transform deep and anomic social discontent into a coherent political project.
The Venezuelan crisis reveals not a new world order, but rather the persistence of the old principle of the rule of the strongest, now reconfigured into an open struggle over spheres of influence.
International politics functions like a theatrical play: it organizes narratives, defines characters, and establishes climaxes, generating a permanent dialogue with its audience. This imaginative...
Beneath yesterday’s moral rhetoric and Trump’s barefaced cynicism today, the powers once again lay bare an uncomfortable truth: without rules or disguises, the United States presents itself as a global gendarme in the service of its own interests.
Donald Trump’s electoral victory for a second, nonconsecutive term was seen by Venezuelans—inside and outside the United States—as the last opportunity to achieve a...
Paraguay, despite its size and remoteness, has become a key piece in the geopolitical dispute between China, Taiwan, and the United States, as it is the only country in South America that still diplomatically recognizes Taipei.