Tag: Ideas

The context in which these attacks have occurred favors their normalization due to the neglect of hate speech delivered by public figures of the extreme right.

In Venezuela, democracy has been deeply distorted by a systematic process of co-optation of the institutions that, according to the Constitution, should be at the service of society as a whole.

They are also called the “pink ghetto” as a way of describing the limits women have in advancing their careers, as these jobs are often dead ends.

It's not just democracy versus dictatorship at stake in the Venezuelan crisis. It encompasses the trajectories of the region as a theater for great power competition or as a collective of countries and governments capable of unified action.

Alternative policies should not appear under the banner of reinforcing the police's capacity for violent action against the population as much as possible.

Understanding politics and politicians in a binary way often distorts reality, which makes us live in a world of lies and simulations.

Voting is mainly influenced by resentments, lies about opponents, ideological-cultural affinities, or clientelistic transactions—none of which are related to the aspirations of the majority.

Artificial intelligence tools that use texts enshrining racial bias or sexist logic as sources will reproduce these biases as conventional wisdom.

Current problems in the region show that the territorial dimension, social heterogeneity, and the scope of state efficiency in Latin America maintain this structural duality.