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 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 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 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 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 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#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

We 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

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

emagar.github.io/Elites-munic... Nuevo post (1/2)

Les 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....

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-...

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...

My favorite coffee house in our overpriced town of Palo Alto is Cafe Venetia www.cafevenetia.com#/ I always order the triestino, a capo scuro, cappuccio with less milk Not sure I can find this perfect proportion nearby - maybe Gibraltar served in a glass at www.voyagercraftcoffeeorders.com/page

I think the apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico was no accident: Rather than an indigenous macehual happening to walk by a hill, surprised by the apparition of the virgin, I think there was deep intentionality

I write on the most important religious devotion in Mexico, the Virgin of Guadalupe celebrated on Dec 12 My reflections are not meant to touch on issues of faith, which seem to me to be deeply personal I rather reflect on the text and its indigenous origins adiazcayeros.medium.com/notes-on-gua...

I just published this in my Medium blog adiazcayeros.medium.com/notes-on-gua...

Acabo de hacer mi primer post en la plataforma Escribiré, como solia hacerlo antes de que me echaran a perder Twitter, sobre México, economía política, cartografía, historia colonial y buen café Acá foto de Ojo de Agua en el Tec de Monterrey

Estupendo taller curso y conferencia organizado por @patymurrieta.bsky.social y su equipo del proyecto New Spain Fleets (NSF) Universidad de Lancaster y Tec de MTY Taller de Inteligencia Artificial y Reconocimiento Automático de Texto Manuscrito para las Humanidades wp.lancs.ac.uk/newspainflee...