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Alberto Diaz Cayeros
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Migrante renuente, economista y politólogo, pero cada vez menos... Senior Fellow CDDRL, Stanford University
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Alberto Diaz Cayeros @adiazcayeros.bsky.social · 27d
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...
Does the Bukele Model Have a Future?
El Salvador’s police state will soon face a reckoning.
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Alberto Diaz Cayeros @adiazcayeros.bsky.social · Sep 5
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Claroscuros de la erosión democrática en México
A pesar del despropósito de la elección judicial, la democracia sigue vigente: aunque Morena entregó instrucciones a sus seguidores sobre cómo votar mediante la distribución de “acordeones”, no hay ev...
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Alberto Diaz Cayeros @adiazcayeros.bsky.social · Sep 5
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:
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Alberto Diaz Cayeros @adiazcayeros.bsky.social · Sep 5
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:
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Alberto Diaz Cayeros @adiazcayeros.bsky.social · Sep 5
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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Letter of Support for the Serbian Student Movement
We invite scholars of democracy worldwide to stand in solidarity with the students of Serbia in their struggle for fundamental rights and democratic renewal. By signing this letter, you express your s...
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AdanGriego @adangriego.bsky.social · Aug 18
#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
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Alberto Diaz Cayeros @adiazcayeros.bsky.social · Aug 14
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...
Democracia extinguida y juventud encarcelada con Bukele
El Salvador es un país pequeño, pero su experiencia encierra una advertencia global: no hay seguridad que justifique la anulación del Estado de derecho
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Alberto Diaz Cayeros @adiazcayeros.bsky.social · Jun 14
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

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No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...
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Alberto Diaz Cayeros @adiazcayeros.bsky.social · Jun 14
You can watch livestream

#NoKingsProtest

And find a local protest close to you
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Livestream — No Kings
No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...
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Alberto Diaz Cayeros @adiazcayeros.bsky.social · Jun 14
No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.

@50501movement.bsky.social

#nokings
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Alberto Diaz Cayeros @adiazcayeros.bsky.social · Jun 11
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
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Alberto Diaz Cayeros @adiazcayeros.bsky.social · Jun 11
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.
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Alberto Diaz Cayeros @adiazcayeros.bsky.social · Jun 11
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
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Alberto Diaz Cayeros @adiazcayeros.bsky.social · Jun 11
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
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Alberto Diaz Cayeros @adiazcayeros.bsky.social · Jun 11
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...
Claroscuros de la erosión democrática en México
A pesar del despropósito de la elección judicial, la democracia sigue vigente: aunque Morena entregó instrucciones a sus seguidores sobre cómo votar mediante la distribución de “acordeones”, no hay ev...
elpais.com
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Alberto Diaz Cayeros @adiazcayeros.bsky.social · Jun 10
elpais.com/mexico/opini...
Claroscuros de la erosión democrática en México
A pesar del despropósito de la elección judicial, la democracia sigue vigente: aunque Morena entregó instrucciones a sus seguidores sobre cómo votar mediante la distribución de “acordeones”, no hay ev...
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AdanGriego @adangriego.bsky.social · Mar 13
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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Eric Magar @emagar.bsky.social · Feb 14
emagar.github.io/Elites-munic... Nuevo post (1/2)
¿Quién abogará por la reelección?
Comenzó la cuenta regresiva para dinamitar la reelección municipal consecutiva
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Alberto Diaz Cayeros @adiazcayeros.bsky.social · Feb 14
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
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The political economy of antipoverty policies in Latin America
Poverty relief policies based on Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs are perhaps the most fundamental institutional social policy innovation at the turn of
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Alberto Diaz Cayeros @adiazcayeros.bsky.social · Feb 14
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
Poverty relief policies based on Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs are perhaps the most fundamental institutional social policy innovation at the turn of
papers.ssrn.com
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Alberto Diaz Cayeros @adiazcayeros.bsky.social · Feb 13
The political economy of antipoverty policies in Latin America @SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The political economy of antipoverty policies in Latin America
Poverty relief policies based on Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs are perhaps the most fundamental institutional social policy innovation at the turn of
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Alberto Diaz Cayeros @adiazcayeros.bsky.social · Feb 4
This 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)
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Alberto Diaz Cayeros @adiazcayeros.bsky.social · Feb 4
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
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Alberto Diaz Cayeros @adiazcayeros.bsky.social · Feb 4
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
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Alberto Diaz Cayeros @adiazcayeros.bsky.social · Feb 4
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-...
Modernización intelectual como una respuesta a la nueva realidad comercial
Lo más inmediato es evaluar el momento crítico que vive México en que Estados Unidos está usando amenazas arancelarias como una herramienta geopolítica, para retar las soberanías de los países del hem...
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