Tag: Ideas
Co-author Leonardo E. Stanley
Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, average temperatures have gradually increased. However, in the last five decades the increase has accelerated and has placed humanity on the edge of ecological security.
The pragmatic liberalism with which Fujimori decided and settled his dispensation, led him to pierce and definitively destroy a system that -although not perfect- still made some sense. In this way, he was able to make a country to his own specifications, which needed to be led by an autocratic president.
Los movimientos de personas ante la Covid-19 se han visto reducidos drásticamente. En 2020, gobiernos de todo el mundo tomaron diversas medidas para cerrar sus fronteras para regular el ingreso del virus, pero también y aún más el de personas. Esta es la primera vez que casi todos los países del mundo compartieron políticas restrictivas al ingreso de personas.
The cross of ideas between Fernández and Lacalle Pou ("freeing oneself from the corset" vs. "getting off the boat"), minor and anecdotal, will nevertheless be recorded as an episode that reflects the existing differences and their implications: an eventual fork in the road between the countries of the Southern Cone.
Since the recent anti-racist mobilizations in the United States and Latin American countries, there has been a strengthening of the black and feminist movements in Brazil as well as a resumption of the debate on race. Within this framework, there has been a resurgence of interest in ideas and theories of the past.
Migration is a central phenomenon of the contemporary world that challenges all countries involved. And the promotion of entrepreneurship is often seen as the solution to integrate migrants into the host society. Is this another neoliberal myth or is it a viable option?
Central Americans continue to flee their home countries, and according to U.S. authorities, more than 100,000 people were apprehended at the southern border in the last month, with an increase in families and unaccompanied children over the previous month.
Brazil is going through one of the most tragic moments in its history, with a GDP contraction of 4%. But the financial movement in the Stock Exchange broke records. The Bovespa index surpassed the unprecedented mark of 120 thousand points and the volume of business was almost five times the GDP for the year. How did this happen?
South America constitutes an "almost perfect" regional migratory space, since its migrants are mostly natives of the same region. Human mobility in general, and transnational migrations in particular, constitute a real machine for diversification and integration of the world's populations and cultures.
It is not possible to state conclusively that the "pink tide" -which fell in the first decade of the present century- is back. It will depend on what happens in the coming months in the different elections in Peru, Nicaragua, Chile, Honduras and the second round in Ecuador.