Today’s cities are on the frontline of crime and terrorism. While some of them are clearly more at risk than others, all of them are vulnerable.

Latin America is the planet’s most urbanized region. In just over a generation – between 1950 and 2010 – the proportion of people living in cities grew from 30% to more than 85%.

An influx of eateries and artistic businesses is helping to sweep away decades of neglect and decay 13/03/2018 Originally published on the Financial Times It is a Friday night in central São Paulo and the terrace at Orfeu, a restaurant-cum-club, could be New York’s Greenwich…

  Febrero, 2018 World Economic Forum   En la reunión del Foro Económico Mundial en Davos la semana pasada, se abordaron al menos tres versiones diferentes sobre el futuro orden mundial. Una de ellos fue la difundida por un combativo Donald Trump, que pedía una retirada estadounidense a…

February, 2018 Project Syndicate   Since the end of World War II, Latin America has maintained a lukewarm stance toward the US-dominated liberal world order, and Brazil is no exception. But at the end of the day, Brazil has much more in common with the…

Venezuelans escaping economic crisis at home are also now pouring into Brazil. Though neighboring Colombia has born the brunt of this exodus, Brazil has seen 60,000 crossings from Venezuela and numbers are rising fast.

iPolitics Fevereiro, 2018 Three competing versions of the future world order clashed at the World Economic Forum’s gathering in Davos last week. There was the one pushed by a feisty Donald Trump calling for economic nationalism and his country’s retreat from the current order. Another was advanced by Chinese…

While some world leaders resist global cooperation, city leaders are working across borders to tackle big issues like global warming, immigration and terrorism.

Razón Pública January, 2018 En medio de una reñida campaña presidencial, el aumento en las hectáreas de coca podría revivir las fumigaciones y endurecer otra vez la “guerra” contras la drogas. ¿Cómo reducir los cultivos ilícitos sin hacer daño a la paz y al desarrollo?…

The murders in a popular Brazilian favela reflect rising violence in a country in crisis.