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In 2021, Andrew Ivey wrote, “‘I Have Other Data’: The Guardia Nacional and the Entrenchment of Mexico’s Militarization’,” where he warned Mexico was headed toward a militarization trap. Five years later, amidst increased pressure from the Trump administration and the election of a new Mexican president, we asked Andrew to revisit his arguments.Image: Sitio Oficial de Andrés Manuel López ObradorIn your 2021 article, you warned that Mexico was headed toward an entrenched militarization trap. In 20

I condemn the killing of Alejandro Leyva Aguilar and call for a thorough investigation to bring the perpetrators to justice. I reiterate my call to the authorities to do everything within their powers ...

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Artificial intelligence is being deployed across the Global South at a pace matching or exceeding the Global North, yet AI governance has not kept pace, and the gap is far wider in the South. Drawing on a decade of AI audit practice across Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia Pacific (the only fully published second-party audit of a deployed system in the region, Robot Laura in Brazil; two completed but unreleased national audits, of a child-welfare risk model and a public-employment matc

Portuguese businesses operate in the same native language as Brazilian hackers, making those businesses easy targets.

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the 2026 Article IV consultation with Brazil on July 20, 2026. Brazil’s economy has remained remarkably resilient in the face of ...

Long before China imported soybeans from Brazil and the United States, the crop powered the country’s economy in the northeast, shaping industry, empire, and the fate of many small towns.

La Selección Española nos ha vuelto a dar otro momento histórico para recordar con su 1-0 ante Argentina en la final del mundial, proclamándose por segunda vez campeona del mundo. Y lo curioso es que la celebración no solo se ha visto y oído, pues también se ha medido. El sismólogo Jordi Díaz Cusí, investigador de Geociencias Barcelona (GEO3BCN-CSIC), ha compartido en su cuenta de X una gráfica con los registros de la Red Sísmica Educativa del instituto durante la final entre España y Argentina.

The United States Trade Representative (Trade Representative) has determined under Section 301(b) and Section 304(a) of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (Trade Act), that certain of Brazil's acts, policies, and practices at issue in this investigation are actionable and that action by the United States is appropriate. In accordance with the specific direction of the President, the Trade Representative is taking action by imposing 25 percent tariffs on all imports of Brazil, with certain exempti

Brazil may soon become the first country in the Americas to regulate digital platforms before they do anything wrong. Bill 4,675/2025 would let the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) designate large technology companies as having “systemic relevance” and impose special obligations without first proving anticompetitive conduct or consumer harm. That is a substantial change ... Brazil’s Gatekeeper Bill Gets a Tuneup, Not a Rethink The post Brazil’s Gatekeeper Bill Gets a Tuneup, No

arXiv:2606.01517v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The adoption of generative AI in the public sector has been treated predominantly as a technological problem, with the expectation that productivity gains would follow from the availability of increasingly capable models. This paper argues, drawing on two auditable cases in the Brazilian Public Service, that the determining barrier to adoption observed in these units was not technological but training-related, and describes the four-layer struc

An incoming citizenship-by-investment scheme could turn Argentina into the next backup plan for the ultra-wealthy hedging against risks at home

On June 11, 2026, the German automotive company Volkswagen was convicted in four different lawsuits by the Brazilian Labor Court for reducing people to slavery in the Brazilian Amazon. While this judgment marks the company’s second round of convictions for enslavement within the Amazonian state of Pará, it stands out as a historic first in the form of individual reparations for corporate crimes committed nearly fifty years ago. This opens the way for a new era of reckoning with several other com

In Donald Trump’s famously transactional foreign policy, the critical resources of sovereign countries, from oil to rare earths, are being weaponized in a superpower struggle for control and dominance The post The Chilean curse is its abundance of riches appeared first on Coda Story .

Publication date: September 2026 Source: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 230 Author(s): Pablo Egana-delSol, Claudio Bravo-Ortega

Publication date: June 2026 Source: Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, Volume 10 Author(s): Stanislav Pozdniakov, Jonathan Brazil, Oleksandra Poquet, Stephan Krusche, Santiago Berrezueta-Guzman, Shazia Sadiq, Hassan Khosravi

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The growing incorporation of artificial intelligence into professional environments has intensified debates about how ethical judgement is formed and sustained under technological mediation. This article examines these issues through the case of VICTOR, a machine learning system developed by Brazil’s Supreme Federal Tribunal to classify extraordinary appeals according to constitutional themes of general repercussion, and through the later expansion of tools such as VitórIA. The analysis distingu

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The Latin American nation's cybersecurity plan — still in the expansion phase — has to survive its own knockout round during the FIFA World Cup.

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A routing algorithm for Señoritas Courier, a bicycle delivery cooperative in São Paulo, Brazil, composed exclusively of cis women and trans people, is presented in this paper. Unlike conventional logistics optimization, which typically focuses on cost or distance minimization, this cooperative operates under principles of solidarity, care, and equitable income distribution. The algorithm was developed through a participatory process involving cooperative members as co-designers. The classical Ve

Antitrust agencies have a habit of giving new labels to old anxieties. In artificial intelligence, the latest worry is that partnerships between large technology firms and startups are not partnerships at all, but mergers in clever disguises. In the first article in this series, we examined how Brazil’s Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) has ... Killer Theories and Acqui-Hire Alibis The post Killer Theories and Acqui-Hire Alibis appeared first on Truth on the Market .

El Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga busca personas voluntarias de entre 18 y 65 años para probar Pandora, una intervención digital personalizada que han desarrollado investigadores de España y Chile. El objetivo de la aplicación y el proyecto es mejorar el bienestar emocional, mental y físico

While the US debates whether to regulate AI at all, Brazil has built the most detailed AI-and-elections rulebook of any democracy and the gap between the two is becoming a headache for companies

The adoption of generative artificial intelligence in the public sector has been treated predominantly as a technological problem, with the expectation that productivity gains would follow from increasingly capable models. This paper argues, drawing on two auditable cases in the Brazilian Public Service, that the determining barrier to adoption observed in these units was not technological but training-related, and describes the four-layer structured pedagogical methodology developed by the auth

The Brazilian Equatorial Margin (BEM) is Brazil's next offshore oil frontier, with operations expected to begin in 2026 in the Foz do Amazonas basin. Its assets are fiscally and territorially linked primarily to Maranhao -- the state with the lowest HDI in the Federation (0.676, IBGE 2022). This raises the central policy question: under what conditions does BEM exploration generate net positive externalities for Maranhao? The problem is intrinsically multi-agent: the Federal Government seeks rev

Analyses of legislative behavior often rely on voting records, overlooking the rich semantic and rhetorical content of political speech. In this paper, we ask three complementary questions about parliamentary discourse: how things are said, what is being said, and who is speaking in discursively similar ways. To answer these questions, we introduce a scalable and generalizable computational framework that combines diachronic stylometric analysis, contextual topic modeling, and semantic clusterin

We introduce WhaVax, a new expert-annotated dataset of vaccine-related WhatsApp messages collected from large Brazilian public groups spanning multiple pandemic years. The dataset was constructed through a rigorous, carefully designed pipeline that integrates keyword-based data collection, semantic deduplication to remove near-duplicate content, and a multi-stage annotation protocol conducted by medical specialists. This process produced a high-quality gold-standard corpus, characterized by subs

Although large language models have transformed natural language processing, their computational costs create accessibility barriers for low-resource languages such as Brazilian Portuguese. This work presents a systematic evaluation of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) and quantization techniques applied to BERTimbau for Question Answering on SQuAD-BR, the Brazilian Portuguese translation of SQuAD v1. We evaluate 40 configurations combining four PEFT methods (LoRA, DoRA, QLoRA, QDoRA) acros

This paper investigates morphosyntactic covariation in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) to assess whether dialectal origin can be inferred from the combined behavior of linguistic variables. Focusing on four grammatical phenomena related to pronouns, correlation and clustering methods are applied to model covariation and dialectal distribution. The results indicate that correlation captures only limited pairwise associations, whereas clustering reveals speaker groupings that reflect regional dialectal

The Consolidation of Labor Laws (CLT) serves as the primary legal framework governing labor relations in Brazil, ensuring essential protections for workers. However, its complexity creates challenges for Human Resources (HR) professionals in navigating regulations and ensuring compliance. Traditional methods for addressing labor law inquiries often lead to inefficiencies, delays, and inconsistencies. To enhance the accuracy and efficiency of legal question-answering (Q&A), a multi-agent system p

Abstract Over the last decade, there has been great research interest in the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in various fields, such as medicine, finance, and law. Recently, there has been a research focus on the application of AI in education, where it has great potential. Therefore, a systematic review of the literature on AI in education is therefore necessary. This article considers its usage and applications in Latin American higher education institutions. After identifying the

The UN's sustainable development goals underscore engaging supply-chain stakeholders with environmentally friendly practices. Small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) are key participants in several supply chains, but their operations often produce a significant environmental impact. Their transition to sustainable practices is challenging because they operate with constrained resources, which are mostly invested in pressing activities. Therefore, evidence is needed that shows the benefits of i