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June 2026
International politics · ES
Goodbye Lenin or Hello Putin?
The 176 measures announced by Havana are the latest economic opening without political reform. The question is not whether Cuba will become capitalist, but whether it will mutate into an oligarchic authoritarianism like Russia or Belarus.
Ernesto Sardiñas · June 27, 2026
Humanist essay · ES
Illegal Homosexuality: Where the Law Prohibits Existence
Five testimonies from Nigeria, Cameroon, Pakistan and Trinidad and Tobago, countries where belonging to the LGBT community remains a crime. The gap between having rights and depending on geographic luck.
Felipe Galli · June 25, 2026
Opinion · Ensayo urbano · ES
Toward an Architecture of Democracy
From the machine for living to the machine for living together. As politics loses itself in immediacy, the true democratic pact breathes in the streets: a journey through the tensions between rigidity and spontaneity, and how public space defines our coexistence.
Gabriela López · June 22, 2026
Theory · FR
Is Arab socialism dead?
The Arab socialisms constitute a plural reality, often invoked yet seldom defined with precision.
Mortadha Ghaliounji · June 17, 2026
International politics · FR
On Xenophobia and Tribalism in Africa: Causes, Consequences, and Geopolitical Impacts
The rise of xenophobia and tribalism is deepening fractures between peoples long united by shared history. An analysis of the causes, consequences, and geopolitical impacts of a drift that undermines pan-African ambitions.
Marie Flore Mboussi · June 16, 2026
Opinion · Humanist essay · ES
Is Argentina a Catholic Country?
A rereading of Alberto Hurtado’s classic in an Argentine key: the question is not how many declare themselves Catholic, but what values guide our life together today.
Felipe Daniel Barrientos · June 16, 2026
International politics · DE
Rightward Shift Driven by Fear of Decline: When Inequality Radicalizes Politics
Fear of downward mobility votes right. How wealth inequality and economic frustration shape current polling trends.
Lukas Effinger · June 16, 2026
International politics · EN
Lessons from the Nazer State: Crowdsourced Denunciation and the Privatization of Political Repression
How a government-backed smartphone application converted civilian society into an instrument of state control, and what it reveals about the future of democratic erosion.
Mariana Puente Lera · June 10, 2026
Política institucional · ES
The Autonomous State: The Unwanted Child of the Spanish Transition
The three original sins of Spain's autonomous state system: a generalised autonomy without coherent design, juridically weak self-government, and a financing model tethered to centralist inertias.
Victor José Almenar Zamora · June 6, 2026
Opinion · International politics · EN
Cameroon Learning from Senegalese Democracy
From a Cameroonian vantage point, Senegal's recent alternations of power expose the fatigue of a democracy captured by a single man for more than forty years.
Marie Flore Mboussi · June 6, 2026
Opinion · International politics · ES
Populism and Trump as an Expression of an Unequal Society
A political religion that challenges American democracy and, at the same time, expresses a social demand.
Juan Tomás Jara Masson · June 6, 2026
Opinion · International politics · ES
Venezuela in Transition: Five Factors Favoring a Democratic Exit
Five dynamics — chronic illegitimacy, a brake on repression, economic infeasibility of continuity, closure of the migratory valve, and united opposition around Machado — that indicate a democratic transition remains viable.
Felipe Galli · June 6, 2026

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