Camilo Nieto Matiz

Assistant professor of political science @UTSA

[Camilo Nieto Matiz @camilonim]

@MajaVelez @MacalaTorres La erradicación aérea también propicia un aumento de la violencia armada, efecto que documentamos en este paper. https://t.co/StrQVHInFr

[Camilo Nieto Matiz @camilonim]

Paris is expensive.

If you’re presenting at #LASA2026, consider applying for a travel award from the Subnational Politics & Society section.

[LASA Subnational Politics @LasaSubnatPolit]

🚨 LASA 2026 | Travel Grants 🚨
Subnational Politics & Society Section:

✈️ 2 grants of $400
👩‍🎓 Priority: PhD & early-career (LatAm)
📄 In-person presentation required
⏰ Mar 9, 2026

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[LASA Subnational Politics @LasaSubnatPolit]

Today is the deadline for the Best Paper & Book Award. Make your submission!

[Camilo Nieto Matiz @camilonim]

https://t.co/IsYPdDhHys

[Camilo Nieto Matiz @camilonim]

When the state commits violence against its own citizens, when does it face electoral punishment?

My new paper shows that state violence alone isn't enough: victims need independence from political elites to hold perpetrators accountable at the ballot box

[Camilo Nieto Matiz @camilonim]

The key insight: property rights don't just change economic conditions; they fundamentally reshape political relationships. When citizens gain autonomy from state actors, past state violence becomes electorally costly for perpetrators and their allies.

[Luis L. Schenoni @llschenoni]

“Bringing War Back In” is finally out in paperback 📖

Help me spread the word with a rt and I’ll dm a discount voucher valid for a week.

• Winner of the 2025 Hedley Bull Award to the best book in International Relations (ECPR)

• Honorable mention, 2025 Charles H. Levine Prize to best book in Public Administration (IPSA)

• Shortlisted for the 2025 Luebbert Award to the best book in Comparative Politics in the past two years (APSA)

"A modern-day comparative historical masterpiece" James Mahoney

"A new and powerful explanation for the state in Latin America" James Robinson

"The most ambitions work on state formation to date" Victoria Hui

https://t.co/dxKVROLe9m

[Camilo Nieto Matiz @camilonim]

@JuanGelvezF @JuanFCampos11 @llschenoni Gracias, Juan David!

[Camilo Nieto Matiz @camilonim]

For years, Colombia relied on aerial eradication (aircrafts spraying glyphosate over coca fields) to weaken armed groups and reassert state control. Our paper with @JuanFCampos11 and @llschenoni shows this often backfired, igniting more violence instead of reducing it. ✈️💥

[Camilo Nieto Matiz @camilonim]

https://t.co/l7A0EYhtAw

[Camilo Nieto Matiz @camilonim]

The reason? Spraying disrupts the fragile balance between authorities, armed actors, and local communities, creating incentives for violence and undermining the very control it seeks to build.

[Camilo Nieto Matiz @camilonim]

Happy to see our work on drug eradication and armed violence finally published

[British Jnl Poli Sci @BJPolS]

NEW -

Spraying Conflict: Aerial Drug Eradication and Armed Violence in Colombia - https://t.co/gnO6rg61cB

"Aerial spraying... propitiates retaliatory violence against the state, stimulates turf wars..."

- Juan Felipe Campos-Contreras, @camilonim & @llschenoni

#OpenAccess

[Lauryn Robaczewski @LaurynRobbie22]

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[Lauryn Robaczewski @LaurynRobbie22]

@wingo HORRIBLE advertising and customer service. There is no happiness to be found on this airline. That's why they have to use Al generated images to sell lies!!! 5 hour delay with no compensation, AND NO COMMUNICATION!!!!!!!!

[Camilo Nieto Matiz @camilonim]

@IsabelGuiza @SCID__journal @ArturoChangQ @LauraGarciaMo ¡Felicitaciones! Se ve muy bueno el paper