@adiazcayeros.bsky.social
Migrante renuente, economista y politólogo, pero cada vez menos... Senior Fellow CDDRL, Stanford University
We write about the autocratic police regime Bukele has created in El Salvador, and the prison conditions -nnot in the performative cruelty of CECOT, but the OTHER prisons, the ones nobody visits and where the human horror of the regime is unspeakable
www.foreignaffairs.com/salvador/doe...
Colegas académicos estudiosas de la democracia
Firmen esta carta apoyando movimiento pro democracia de los y las estudiantes en Serbia
Un proceso esperanzador en estos tiempos en que la democracia está en franca retirada
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Las calles de Novi Sad anoche:
Academic colleagues studying democracy
Please consider signing this letter supporting the pro democracy movement of Serbian university students
A hopeful process in times of so much democratic backsliding
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The streets of Novi Sad last night:
Democracy colleagues,
@StanfordCDDRL is launching a new Democracy Action Lab (DAL) next October
To bridge the gap between scholarship and practitioners
The student movement in Serbia needs international academic solidarity now
Please share and sign
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#Bolivia held #presidentialelections this weekend. For more on the country's sociopolitical conditions of the last 20 years check out some ebooks tinyurl.com/2p9une7w from @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social
18.08.2025 16:39 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0We wrote about prison conditions and the total breakdown of the rule of law in in El Salvador
Bukele is sacrificing thousands of innocents incarcerating one in ten young men in inhuman prison conditions, similar to Auschwitz’s, while the world applauds a cruel dictator
elpais.com/america/2025...
We will be out in the street
protesting
mourning
But also celebrating
our voice
our right to speak
to think
to be kind
to being here
#nokingprotest
nokings.org
You can watch livestream
#NoKingsProtest
And find a local protest close to you
nokings.org
Livestream — No Kings
No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.
@50501movement.bsky.social
#nokings
And MORENA did not quite get the outcome of the election they expected. The most voted candidate teo the Supreme Court was Nuu Savi (Mixtec) attorney Hugo Aguilar Ortiz who will be the next president of the high Court
whether Aguilar will defend indigenous rights vs. megaprojects?
Still to be seen
But many voters did spoil their ballots as a form of protest as in the era of PRI hegemony.
Discontent did not mean citizens shirked from the civic duty
Mexican elections are run by citizens who volunteer in the polling booths, which were all installed
INE oversaw with professionalism.
Turnout was very low, but that does not automatically mean democratic practices were eroded
Citizens did not quite understand what they were voting for
There is no obvious counterfactual for what the "normal" turnout would be.
The complexity of the ballot would perplex any rational voter
The election of judges at all levels including the Supreme Court is not enhancing democracy
The misunderstanding comes from believing democracy = voting. The most important aspect of democratic accountability of power to citizens comes from the institutions that create checks and balances on power
My take on the Mexican Judicial election and some preliminary analysis. The best way to characterize Mexico's democratic backsliding is a chiaroscuro: citizens are still the heroic defenders of democracy, while the democratic temptations lurk in the background
elpais.com/mexico/opini...
I'M STILL HERE playing in BayArea theaters. Learn more abt Brazil🇧🇷during 21 yrs of military rule w/ @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social ebooks tinyurl.com/mryxrrp3 & much larger selection of print titles tinyurl.com/y4wyabfa. @adiazcayeros.bsky.social,
@dawngarcia.bsky.social, @spantoja.bsky.social
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14.02.2025 17:33 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Les comparto esta revisión de las políticas de combate a la pobreza en América Latina y el papel de los CCTs y su futuro - reflexión sobre cómo superar trampas de pobreza geográfica y clientelismo
The political economy of antipoverty policies in Latin America
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Sharing this review of poverty alleviation policies in Latin America, the role and future of CCTs -and a reflection on how to overcome geographic poverty traps and clientelism
The political economy of antipoverty policies in Latin America papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The political economy of antipoverty policies in Latin America @SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
13.02.2025 18:31 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This intelectual and scholarly aggiornamiento means reading and learning about the NEW scholarly work
Acemoglu, Robinson y Johnson (institutions) Banerjee y Duflo (poverty)
Przeworski (socialdemocracy)
Piketty (inequality)
Otros Saberes (indigenous and afrodescendant peoples)
1. Democracy: only regime that self corrects errors
2. Political institutions as checks and balances on power
3. Social democracy makes market and redistribution compatible
4. Poverty relief based on evidence and evaluation
5. Other Knowledges by original peoples social movements
Due to the disdain AMLO had towards academia, many policy makers in Mexico have not updated their thinking have not read recent academic work
We need an update on the modern thinking about economic development
New ideas will not emerge from reading Marx or von Mises
My view is that the challenge for the Sheinbaum administration is the urgent need to rethink the social and economic development of Mexico
but not based on the tired and old ideas of the Marxist left of the 1960s
elpais.com/mexico/2025-...
I argue that a strategy based on free trade and open markets might no longer be a sustainable way to redress the challenges of social inclusion, poverty, and preserving democracy
We must look beyond old and tired ideas, instead incorporating what we have learned on development in last 3 decades
My article in @elpais.com tonight tries to open up a discussion of what kind of academic sources Mexico may need to look for in order to rethink its development strategy
Modernización intelectual como una respuesta a la nueva realidad comercial
elpais.com/mexico/2025-...
A birthday message from @frankfukuyama.bsky.social
for Jesús Armas, democracy activist, in these ill fated days for citizen and human rights, not only in Venezuela, but throughout our Hemisphere @stanfordcddrl.bsky.social @fsistanford.bsky.social
drive.google.com/file/d/10zDz...
Incredible project and such a public good provision to all of us trying to read and understand our colonial past
Can't wait to unlock Corsair tales like this:
