Amid anemic economic growth, rising debt, and mounting internal and external pressures, Mexico faces in 2026 the challenge of governing scarcity without eroding its fragile political and institutional balance.
The detention of Cilia Flores alongside Nicolás Maduro reignites the debate over the real power of first ladies in Latin America and lays bare how a role without formal oversight can become a key political actor within authoritarian regimes.
The new mining fever places Latin America back at the center of the global dispute, deepening extractivism, dependency, and territorial conflict under the language of the energy transition and development.
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.
Between broken promises and the weight of the fossil fuel lobby, COP30 once again revealed the gap between climate urgency and the political will to leave oil behind.
