Issue Sep 24-30 2025: Nicolás Maduro’s recent pronouncement that he will declare Venezuela a “Republic in Arms” if it is attacked by the United States has created a wave of mockery, especially online and in diverse opinion-setting media sources. The satirical focus of the ridicule has been on the multiple contradictions and absurdities in Maduro’s

Issue Sep 24-30 2025: In democracy, there are no absolute victories nor are there, much less, total defeats, but rather swings of the pendulum that, sooner or later, touch one extreme or the other.

Issue Sep 17-23 2025: Countries such as China and Japan boast cultural influences derived from three key sources:  Buddhism, Taoism, and the thought of Confucius. The Chinese philosopher has placed his stamp on the way their economies are managed, their politics managed, and their education systems run, since certain principles of his thought ended up

Issue Sep 17-23 2025: Rio de Janeiro was the scene for one of Brazil’s largest protests in ages as thousands took to the streets to voice their disapproval for a proposed amnesty bill exonerating conspirators in the attempted 2022 coup d’état to prevent current President Ignacio Lula da Silva from assuming power after he was

Issue Sep 17-23 2025: On September 15, the world celebrated International Democracy Day—a propitious occasion to evaluate the state of democracy both around the world and in Latin America.

Issue Sep 17-23 2025: One of the world’s most prestigious demographers, Nicholas Eberstadt, predicts a future in which the global population will decline. In an essay published in Foreign Affairs entitled “The Age of Depopulation,” he stated the following: “Humans are about to enter a new historical era. For the first time since the Black

Issue Sep 10-16 2025: Next year Peruvians will gather at the polls to elect a new president, given that the mandate of Pedro Castillo, who was put in jail and replaced by his vice-president Dina Boluarte, is swiftly coming to a close. Against all expectations, Boluarte has managed to remain in office until now, but

Issue Sep 10-16 2025: September in Chile is a month filled with national symbolism, but it is often unclear what binds its peoples together—indeed, it is appropriate to ask what it means to be Chilean in the first place.

Issue Sep 10-16 2025: The economic crisis in Venezuela is about more than just rampant inflation and exchange rates. Indeed, it is a crisis that is structural in nature, one that has imploded the country’s productive capacity as well as its social and institutional foundations.

Issue Sep 10-16 2025: Colombian journalism is experiencing a crisis that threatens pluralism and the right to information.