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Articles by Carlos Cantero
Wingbeats that fracture Latin America Original
Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Pope Leo XIV, during a visit to France on Sept. 25, issued a stark warning: humanity risks losing itself amid a "paradise of machines" that invades and conditions daily life. His remedy, presented at the Élysée Palace, was not a new technology but "education in ethical discernment." Later that day at UNESCO, he warned that new technologies could become instruments of domination and injustice.
From space to place: Latin America's answer to digital loneliness Original
Sept. 17 (UPI) -- We have never been more connected, yet loneliness has become a global public health concern. In 2025, the World Health Organization reported that roughly one in six people worldwide experiences loneliness, with adolescents reporting the highest rates. The paradox is hard to ignore. Technology has expanded our ability to communicate, yet many people feel increasingly isolated from the communities around them. Latin America is very much part of this transformation.
The Cerimedo Case and the Digital Pandora's Box Original
Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Latin America is confronting a debate with implications far beyond the region: the Cerimedo case. The issues it raises are hardly new. For years, we have discussed and warned about them in conferences and classrooms. Yet much of the political world appears scandalized only now that the consequences have struck close to home. Some seek to minimize them while others exaggerate them, remaining faithful to political opportunism and the familiar binary culture of good versus evil.
The digital Procrustean bed: Everyone in the same mold Original
Sept. 2 (UPI) -- We are living through the digital version of an ancient Greek myth: the bed of Procrustes. In the story, the bandit Procrustes tied his victims to an iron bed and forced each of them to fit its dimensions, stretching those who were too short and amputating those who were too tall. Today, the bed is digital. Across Latin America, public deliberation faces a common threat: bot networks, content farms and coordinated disinformation campaigns aimed at democratic institutions.
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The Gradient Principle: When inequality becomes movement Original
Aug. 18 (UPI) -- The recent Ruptures and Opportunities report from the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean describes a world entering a period of profound reconfiguration and portrays the region as caught in three mutually reinforcing traps: weak economic growth, persistent inequality that erodes social cohesion and insufficient institutional capacity to sustain long-term development. Other forces aggravate the picture, from population aging to organized crime.
Venezuela: Two earthquakes that exposed institutional failure Original
Aug. 10 (UPI) -- On June 24, two powerful earthquakes measuring magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 struck northern Venezuela. The toll was catastrophic: more than 6,000 people were reported dead, tens of thousands were injured and thousands remained missing. Beyond the loss of life and the enormous economic damage, the disaster exposed a deeper problem. Its scale cannot be explained solely by geology. Human decisions also played a role.
Latin America's real crisis is ethical, not political Original
July 20 (UPI) -- Transparency International's 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index, published in February 2026, found that the global average score had fallen to 42 out of 100, its lowest level in more than a decade. More than two-thirds of the 182 countries measured scored below 50. Latin America's persistent corruption scandals and weak systems of accountability are part of that broader decline. Transparency International was even more direct in its assessment of the Americas.
Humanism, transhumanism, posthumanism: Redefining the human Original
July 7 (UPI) -- Like tectonic plates colliding beneath the surface, humanism and the humanities are confronting movements that question long-held definitions of the human person. This is more than an academic dispute. Advances in artificial intelligence, biotechnology and human enhancement are forcing society to reconsider where the natural ends and the artificial begins.
Older people: Redefining humanity | Opinion
June 24 (UPI) -- The world is aging at an unprecedented rate. The number of people aged 60 and older is expected to reach 1.4 billion by 2030 and exceed 2 billion by 2050. This transformation is advancing especially quickly in Latin America and the Caribbean, where older people are projected to represent one-quarter of the region's population by the middle of this century. The demographic shift will inevitably affect health systems and public policy.
Older people: Redefining humanity Original
June 24 (UPI) -- The world is aging at an unprecedented rate. The number of people aged 60 and older is expected to reach 1.4 billion by 2030 and exceed 2 billion by 2050. This transformation is advancing especially quickly in Latin America and the Caribbean, where older people are projected to represent one-quarter of the region's population by the middle of this century. The demographic shift will inevitably affect health systems and public policy.
Algorithms did not invent tribal hatred -- they amplified it Original
June 4 (UPI) -- A study published last November in Science confirmed what many observers of digital politics have long suspected: feed algorithms do not merely reflect human hostility. They can amplify it. Researchers from the University of Washington, Stanford University and Northeastern University worked with 1,256 participants on X during the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign.
Algorithms did not invent tribal hatred -- they amplified it
Digital platforms have not changed the sequence by which societies dehumanize the adversary. They have accelerated it, writes Carlos Cantero, an international lecturer, adviser and consultant. June 4 (UPI) -- A study published last November in Science confirmed what many observers of digital politics have long suspected: feed algorithms do not merely reflect human hostility. They can amplify it.
Left and right in the age of algorithms Original
May 29 (UPI) -- Late last year, Chileans went to the polls in one of the most polarized presidential contests since the country's return to democracy. José Antonio Kast, a conservative, defeated Jeannette Jara, a Communist Party candidate, by a wide margin: 58 percent to 42 percent. The gap between them was not merely political. It felt moral, even civilizational. Chile is hardly alone. Across Latin America and the democratic world, citizens increasingly inhabit different moral universes.
Humanities and the crisis of instrumental reason Original
May 20 (UPI) -- Even as AI reshapes how students learn, work, and understand themselves, a landmark UNESCO report released this month finds that only one in five universities worldwide has a formal policy on artificial intelligence. The finding arrives against a troubling backdrop: according to the World Health Organization's September 2025 update, "World Mental Health Today," more than one billion people are now living with a mental health disorder. The two statistics are not unrelated.
Digital power and the new Orwellian temptation Original
May 13 (UPI) -- When Meta announced in January 2025 that it would end third-party fact-checking in the United States and move toward a community notes model, Brazilian authorities demanded clarification about whether the policy would affect their country.
Why today's political unrest is about more than politics Original
April 27 (UPI) -- Two recent reports paint a troubling picture of where democratic societies stand. The 2025 Edelman Trust Barometer, based on surveys of roughly 32,000 people across 28 countries, found that six in 10 respondents held a moderate to high sense of grievance toward those in power.
When digital society disconnects the self, the body speaks Original
April 21 (UPI) -- In June 2025, the World Health Organization released a landmark report on social disconnection. Its findings were stark: one in six people worldwide is affected by loneliness, and the condition contributes to an estimated 871,000 deaths each year. The report also identified digital technology as a driver of the crisis, warning about excessive screen time and harmful online interactions, especially among young people. That finding deserves more than a public health response.
U.S. verdict may mark turning point in digital accountability Original
April 3 (UPI) -- For years, the digital world has largely been governed by self-regulation and corporate promises. That may now be changing. A jury verdict delivered in Los Angeles on March 25 could matter far beyond the United States because it points toward a new approach to digital accountability. Rather than focusing only on harmful content posted by users, the case centered on platform design and on whether those design choices contributed to serious psychological harm.
When citizens stop thinking: stupidity as a political force Original
March 31 (UPI) -- In February 2022, millions of Europeans watched a democratic government resist a military invasion launched, in part, on the premise that its citizens lacked the will to fight. The premise was wrong. But it raised a question that goes beyond any single war: why do leaders, and the societies that follow them, so often misjudge reality so badly? And why does that failure keep recurring, across generations and continents?
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'Corruption kills': The spread of ethical decay Original
March 17 (UPI) -- On the evening of Aug. 9, 2023, Fernando Villavicencio left a campaign rally in Quito and walked toward his vehicle. Moments later, gunmen opened fire. He died within minutes. Villavicencio was a presidential candidate in Ecuador's election. Before entering politics, he had built a reputation as an investigative journalist who exposed corruption at the highest levels of government. He had reported death threats. He had been given security. None of it saved him.
Relationality: We are the conversations we keep Original
March 2 (UPI) -- The most fundamental human act, communication, is entering a crisis that is reshaping human relationality. The stakes are not merely cultural. Digital platforms and the wider ecosystem of information and communication technologies are changing how we live, how we form judgments, and how we recognize one another.
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