Where will the solutions to a world in crisis come from?

2025 has been a year of intense change in global geopolitics. The US presidency and migration challenges coupled with the resurgence of repressive contexts in Latin America continue to challenge multilateral institutions and governments around the world, particularly in the Global South. The articles by our International Team for this edition of the Newsletter are a collection of reflections that address the most pressing international issues from the Global South so far this year. In the introductory text, Sergio Chaparro offers us a reflection on the centrality of international forums and their capacity to transform global paradigms of multilateralism. He invites us to understand how the prominence of Southern powers has the capacity to make drastic changes in the way we think about and deal with the challenges we face, especially when it comes to climate change.

The article by Lina Arroyave and Christy Crouse focuses on migration and, in particular, on the security component that has come to dominate it. The criminalization, externalization of borders, and transformation of the right to migrate into a national security issue have had a profound impact on the lives of those who have migrated and those who want to migrate. The authors invite us, from the Global South, to consider an approach to migration that is not exclusionary, but rather offers opportunities and provides an important political counterweight to those who want to close their doors at any cost.

Finally, the entry by Sofía Forero Alba and Victoria Fernández exposes the many difficulties that economic reforms in Argentina have created for civic space. It also sounds the alarm about a repressive trend in Latin America, part of a broader wave in which cuts to public funding and authoritarianism feed off each other. The delegitimization of protest, control of information, and repression discourage mobilization, restrict channels for citizen participation, and weaken democracy. The text closes with a call for the importance of strengthening networks to expand the defense of civic space.

This edition of our Newsletter exemplifies the following: in order to imagine a more just and equitable world, we must look to the Global South. Whether it is to seek innovation, to face the challenges that affect all regions of the world, or to glimpse the parameters that we do not want to repeat, the Global South offers great opportunities.