Tag: Ideas
Make no mistake: democracy is not a social welfare program, but primarily a political system for making collective decisions peacefully.
Despite the polls, the real surprise in the second ballot of Uruguay's presidential elections wouldn't be the ruling party's victory, but its defeat.
Following the failure to meet the biodiversity conservation targets that the international community had set out to achieve by 2020 — the Aichi Targets...
The fact that 50.4% of voters chose Trump does not make him any less authoritarian or aspiring fascist. And his victory should not be assumed as a delegation of power.
The promise that technology could change our lives and make us more prosperous is in crisis. Today we have more information than ever before, but our communication and learning has not improved one iota.
Brazil has already demonstrated that it is ready to embrace a climate-resilient future; with China's support, this goal can become a reality.
One of the major achievements of the event was the creation of a body for indigenous peoples and local communities, as well as the recognition of Afro-descendant peoples as custodians of biodiversity.
Everything indicates that the expansion of human rights over the last thirty years in the world was not as consensual as it was supposed to be.
Neither Cuba nor Venezuela were moral paradises before their respective socio political disruptions, nor were they hellish. These were societies with both virtuous and dark moments.
In Latin America, the absence of state control—or, if preferred, the state’s precarious capacity to delineate its territory and exercise sovereignty under international treaties—is stark.