Latin America is becoming a laboratory for tech-supremacism

Core Impact Points

• Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel has relocated to Argentina, where he is supporting the country's far-right government and its plans to implement biometric surveillance and artificial intelligence in law enforcement.
• The Trump Corollary, a new model of control, is being implemented in Latin America, combining Trumpism, corporate deregulation, and biometric surveillance to control and oppress marginalized populations.
• Argentina's government has introduced a legislative framework for artificial intelligence investments, offering extreme corporate benefits and deregulation, which critics say is a threat to the country's sovereignty and democracy.
• The use of biometric surveillance and predictive policing tools in Argentina is encoding racial bias and targeting marginalized populations, raising concerns about human rights and social justice.
• The Trump Corollary relies on its own intellectual infrastructure, formulating discourses on Western supremacy, 'borders and order,' and the criminalization of racialized populations and social protest, which local allies then implement in their own territories.
• The submission of regional elites to Silicon Valley giants is a surrender of sovereignty, driven by their rejection of the democratic advancement of racialized majorities, and is a threat to the US market and economy if it spreads to other countries.