*Por Juan Francisco Camino While political science has delved into the factors why democracy “endures” in Latin America, Ecuador is experiencing what we might call a “survival” democracy in the face of the wave of insecurity that has taken hold in the country.... More »
By Lorena Soler* On Sunday, August 13, 2023, the simultaneous and compulsory open primary elections (PASO) were held in Argentina. This electoral engineering was created by the then President Cristina Fernández in 2009 for the selection of candidates of the po... More »
By Juan Francisco Camino.* In recent weeks, Ecuador has captured the attention of international media, regional politicians and, of course, social scientists, especially those dedicated to the under explored and misunderstood political science. More »
By Juan Francisco Camino* The elections of local government authorities (mayors, councilors, council members, among others), of councilors of the Council of Citizen Participation and Social Control, and the referendum proposed by the Ecuadorian government, hel... More »
By Andres Carrizosa * Recently, the U.S. ambassador to Paraguay, Marc Ostfield, shocked the Paraguayan political establishment by publicly designating three Paraguayan citizens as “significantly corrupt.” Among those accused were Horacio Cartes—Par... More »
By Jorge Rolón Luna* According to the United Nations World Drug Report 2022, around 284 million people aged between 15 and 64 used drugs worldwide in 2020 (an increase of 26% compared to the previous decade). Youth drug use also grew, surpassing the previous g... More »
By Jorge Rolón Luna* The use of consciousness-altering substances should be a health issue. And this, it should be added, when such use is considered “problematic”. Drug use does not always have that character; in other words, it does not always affect a perso... More »
By Pablo Daniel Magee * It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the cold-blooded execution of presumed criminal Marcos Rojas and young influencer Cristina Vita Aranda by a sicario in the middle of the Ja’Umina music festival of San Bernardino (2022/01/30), moved ... More »
By Pablo Daniel Magee What is really happening in Ukraine, and why is Russian President Vladimir Putin currently putting at risk a relative world peace over this territory? More »
By Nelson Denis. During the 1970s, various academics began to notice certain weaknesses in American foreign policy. This was the time of the American defeat in the Vietnam War, the breakdown of the Bretton Woods System, the first oil crisis, and the end of acc... More »