Event Description
What is the nature of political obligation and state authority in Guerrero, Mexico? Alberto will delve into the origins of inequality and state capacity in order to address the question of whether “it was the state” (#FueElEstado) that forcefully disappeared the 43 missing students from Ayotzinapa.
Speaker
Alberto Díaz-Cayeros is a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University.
More Information
Read "Mexico: 'It Was the State'" by Tara P. Buss in the Fall 2015 Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies.