Con la cantidad de desinformación publicada a la alza resulta urgente entender las distintas tácticas usadas por diferentes medios estatales para poder encontrar mejores soluciones al combate de noticias falsas.
After almost a quarter of a century of negotiations, a trade agreement between Mercosur and the EU could be signed soon. But the electoral uncertainty in South America as well as the protectionist tensions that emerged after Brexit could present risks for the agreement’s ratification.
In June 2018, Global Americans launched our news monitoring initiative to flag false or misleading articles by extra-hemispheric state-owned media reporting in the Americas. This is what we learned.
Latin America is facing an historic wave of migration, not just from Venezuela but from other countries as well. And it’s only likely to grow. But when governments adopt the right policies, migrants can favor development.
Political developments in Guatemala, Mexico, Brazil and once again in Peru should remind us that tackling corruption—to quote Ringo Starr—”… just don’t come easy.” Worse, it can often turn anti-democratic.
Bolsonaro’s popularity has plummeted after only one hundred days in office. The reasons were obvious even before he took office on January 1, but few thought political turmoil would come this quickly.
Countering democratic backsliding driven by powerful executives is as relevant as eliminating corruption, the deficit of the rule of law and the scourges of inequality and violence that plague Latin America’s democracies. Yet the latter issues still dominate public debate.
Since the mid-nineties, a majority of established democracies have fallen victim to an autocratic wave. And while each country’s trajectory to autocracy is different, the tactical model of the aspiring dictator is evident in all of them.
A month after promoting the establishment of PROSUR, Chilean President Sebastián Piñera contradicted the central principles of the new regional bloc during a trip to China.
Aspiring autocrats in Latin America and around the world are increasingly taking pages from the playbooks of the Chávez/Maduro regime in Venezuela and Vladimir Putin in Russia.
