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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽

@rgzepeda.bsky.social
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Associate Professor UNAM | Criminal violence, political economy, education, climate change, policy ideas | All opinions personal | Spanglish |

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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
El día de hoy Reforma publicó un texto mío sobre los resultados de PISA 2025. ¡Agradezco mucho la oportunidad!
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Ya salió mi capítulo de libro “La política como ocupación: Sociología de las Élites en México” publicado en “Cartografías del poder. Exploraciones en la sociología política contemporánea)”, coordinado por Gustavo Urbina e Isaac Cisneros. pueden adquirir el libro: libros.colmex.mx/tienda/carto...
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Today I am commenting the new studies about the impacts and needs concerning Mexico’s accession to MARPOL VI. Thanks to the Institute of the Americas for the invitation!
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Peer reviewed article accepted! And this one is on climate change! I’ll share it as soon is published.
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I am delighted to have joined the faculty of the International Relations program at FES Acatlán - UNAM as an associate professor of politics. We met to discuss and prepare for the challenges of the upcoming semester at UNAM.
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
How do scientists know if climate change made a heat wave, extreme storm or wildfire worse? theconversation.com/how-do-scien...
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How do scientists know if climate change made a heat wave, extreme storm or wildfire worse?
A National Academy of Sciences report examined the latest advances in extreme event attribution science. As four of the authors explain, the type of disaster makes a difference.
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Un comentario a los resultados del examen de ingreso a la UNAM. open.substack.com/pub/rgzepeda...
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Si no fue IA, ¿qué fue?
Los resultados del examen de ingreso a la UNAM
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Tuve el privilegio de conocer el Puerto de Manzanillo. Es extraordinaria la enorme capacidad del puerto. 4 de cada 10 contenedores que llegan a México pasan por aquí, casi 4 millones de contenedores al año que nos conecta con Asia Pacífico.
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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 26/06/2026
We think of them in separate categories, but police officers and soldiers share something essential with cartel members: 'They are all specialists in violence,' the sociologist @rgzepeda writes. In this incisive Essay, Gil explores what drives young men to pursue a career in violence
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Organised violence is a trade, whether legal or illegal | Aeon Essays
Every society depends on violence workers, but what makes young men take a job that risks their lives and harms others?
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Today @aeon.co published me an essay I wrote with the main insight of my research: The violence specialists. They are workers workers in a trade, regardless of it’s legality. They can be gangsters or soldiers. And there are aspects that makes this occupation attractive. aeon.co/essays/organ...
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 24/06/2026
Mombasa: Key outcomes from the Our Ocean Conference in Kenya ✍️ written by @giulianaviglione.bsky.social Read here ➡️ buff.ly/l8Tqh9j
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Mombasa: Key outcomes from the Our Ocean Conference in Kenya - Carbon Brief
A major ocean conference has ended in Mombasa, Kenya, with just a handful of countries committing to high-level political declarations
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
One billion additional people face at least one day of “extreme heat stress” every year compared to the 1970s. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I was interviewed by @washingtonpost.com about the current US tactics on the Latin America war on drugs www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
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In killing gang leader, Trump brings war-on-terror tactics to Latin America
The strike on Tren de Aragua's leader in Venezuela was more like the targeted killing of a jihadist than the approach traditionally taken against alleged criminals.
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I will deeply miss Colbert on air. I watch him all these years. What a way to end with Paul McCartney! youtu.be/zG0HFw0edXY?...
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"Jump Up / Hello Goodbye" Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello, Jon Batiste, Louis Cato & Stephen Colbert
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
My new book chapter “The Populist Reframing of Idle Youth in Mexican Violent Crime Prevention Policy” has been published at the Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South. You can take a look here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Escribí sobre este tema en mi Substack: open.substack.com/pub/rgzepeda...
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
un pequeño texto de cómo se reporta la violencia en México
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Un grano de incertidumbre ante la alarma
Comentario sobre cinco ideas exageradas de seguridad y violencia en México
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Elections like yesterday reinforce my belief that researching the political and economic conditions under which democratic mobilization is unleashed (in the world of energy and climate, and beyond) are crucial to the current moment, and do not need to be only depressing
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Geneva is really pretty!
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Different views of the Acropolis in Athens.
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
The views from the Schönbrunn Palace are impressive.
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Where democracy started and decline, the Athens Agora.
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
The Broken Chair in front of the UN in Geneva, to remember the pain caused by land mines.
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
The UN in Geneva has peacocks living freely on the gardens.
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
:( www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Spring in Amsterdam
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
More Vienna
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Vienna is stunning
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Amsterdam Canals
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World Meteorological Organization @wmo-global.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
As WMO unveils the Global #StateOfClimate 2025, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres calls for urgent action grounded in science. 📕Read the report: bit.ly/StateOfClimate2025 📽️UNSG's full message: youtu.be/iijVBQbm3jg
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Some London spring pics
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
This might be the oil shock where the world learns that you can have Nixon style queues at gas stations without price controls. Blaming shortages on price controls in a massive supply shock is like blaming the rain on the umbrella. I still recommend using an umbrella.
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I think I look cute in this pic.
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 18/03/2026
Mexico’s cartel landscape has expanded significantly since 2006, fuelled by arms smuggling and drug consumption north of the border.
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What you need to know about Mexico’s drug cartels amid escalating violence
Mexico’s cartel landscape has expanded significantly since 2006, fuelled by arms smuggling and drug consumption north of the border.
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
What you need to know about Mexico’s drug cartels amid escalating violence theconversation.com/what-you-nee... My piece at @uk.theconversation.com
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What you need to know about Mexico’s drug cartels amid escalating violence
Mexico’s cartel landscape has expanded significantly since 2006, fuelled by arms smuggling and drug consumption north of the border.
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
What you need to know about Mexico’s drug cartels amid escalating violence theconversation.com/what-you-nee... My piece at @uk.theconversation.com
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What you need to know about Mexico’s drug cartels amid escalating violence
Mexico’s cartel landscape has expanded significantly since 2006, fuelled by arms smuggling and drug consumption north of the border.
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Historia reciente de los precios de la gasolina en México (1995-2019) rgzepeda.substack.com/p/historia-p...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/03/2026
Jürgen Habermas, a philosopher and public intellectual who was one of the most influential and cited thinkers in postwar Germany, died on Saturday. He was 96.
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Jürgen Habermas Dies at 96; One of Postwar Germany’s Most Influential Thinkers
In dozens of books, he rejected postmodern cynicism about truth and reason, arguing that rational communication was the best way to redeem democratic society.
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Gema Kloppe-Santamaría @gemakloppe.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
En nuestro artículo para @nexosmexico.bsky.social, Karina García reyes y yo reflexionamos sobre las falacias de la guerra contra las drogas, la responsabilidad de Estados Unidos en su sostenimiento y la urgente necesidad de darle un giro a la conversación redaccion.nexos.com.mx/la-guerra-co...
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I missed Regents Canal.
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Thanks to @aljazeera.com for the interview aje.news/xai82t
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Will Mexico’s Jalisco cartel’s violent biz model survive El Mencho’s death?
El Mencho consolidated Mexico’s most powerful criminal organisations in part due to a unique franchise-based structure.
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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
"The removal of Mexican criminal leaders does not cause the market for drugs to vanish, nor does it cause trafficking routes to disappear. What changes is the balance of power among groups that already compete for territory, labour and access to ports, roads and local authorities."
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 24/02/2026
The killing of the Jalisco New Generation cartel’s leader is likely to spark a wave violence.
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Mexico may pay a steep price for the killing of Jalisco cartel leader El Mencho
The killing of the Jalisco New Generation cartel’s leader is likely to spark a wave violence.
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Mexico may pay a steep price for the killing of Jalisco cartel leader El Mencho My article at the @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/mexico-may-p...
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Mexico may pay a steep price for the killing of Jalisco cartel leader El Mencho
The killing of the Jalisco New Generation cartel’s leader is likely to spark a wave violence.
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
‘Christian pastors declared Pikachu to be a demon’: how Pokémon went from moral panic to unifying global hit www.theguardian.com/games/2026/f...
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‘Christian pastors declared Pikachu to be a demon’: how Pokémon went from moral panic to unifying global hit
Nintendo’s monster-collecting franchise was pilloried as a ‘pestilential Ponzi scheme’ in the 90s. But as its celebrates its 30th birthday, it now stands as a powerful example of video games’ ability ...
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
I finally visited the British Museum Reading room, which used to the the British Library reading room until 1997. And, of course, I had to have a pic beside the information plate of Karl Marx, who researched and wrote The Capital here.
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Fossil fuel firms may have to pay for climate damage under proposed UN tax www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Fossil fuel firms may have to pay for climate damage under proposed UN tax
Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation could also force ultra-rich to pay global wealth tax
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Tuve que reconstruir estos datos de varios lados, pero por fin tengo una gráfica de los precios de la gasolina en México y Estados Unidos (de 2006 a 2019).
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Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽 @rgzepeda.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Paper accepted! Finally a piece of good news.
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