Dear Chavistas: #Venezuela collapse is not a result of oil, US, fascism, venal opposition, 2002 coup, OAS, or man on the moon. It's you.
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Because they can
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Why are so many Salvadorans migrating to the US?@GaldyINFO breaks it down in @globalvoices.
Recently, the economy is the main concern for Salvadorans.
globalvoices.org/2023/02/01/des
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Así, el editorial de esta semana: “Making things worse is that several foreign governments, notably those of #Mexico, Colombia and Bolivia, support the insurrection against what they claim, speciously, was a “coup” against Mr Castillo.” ¿Así, o más claro?
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.@TheEconomist: “Peru needs an early election and outside support, not interference” economist.com/leaders/2023/0
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Maduro cannot believe his continuing good luck
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Today the Southern District Court of Florida questioned the recognition of the Government of Venezuela as a result of the disbanding of the interim president. This is the first ruling that changed the solid precedent adopted since 2019.
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Tema que se le advertido a la Asamblea Nacional antes de desmantelar al Gobierno Interino, es bueno volver el debate de esos días. Como los diputados aseguraban que esto no ocurriría…
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A powerful piece on #Haiti—lively, distressing, deeply informed—by someone who feels the country in his bones. Do take the time to read this piece by .
This is the End - by Michael Deibert
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What did you expect? Nothing that the regime does in #Venezuela lacks a significant dose of cynicism.
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Venezuelan government recently conducted military raid against illegal mining in Yapacana National Park, after expose in @washingtonpost
But with high-res imagery we find that all mining camps on sacred Yapacana Tepui still intact
maaproject.org/2023/yapacana-
@SOSOrinoco,@ACA_DC
As night follows day. I’ll bet discussions in Mexico will fixit though… #Venezuela
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Today the Southern District Court of Florida questioned the recognition of the Government of Venezuela as a result of the disbanding of the interim president. This is the first ruling that changed the solid precedent adopted since 2019.
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But wait, I was told Chinese interest in LatAm was economics and trade? And I guess weather reports now too, it appears.
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New: Pentagon says another Chinese spy balloon is currently transiting Latin America. Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder said in a statement to CNN, “We are seeing reports of a balloon transiting Latin America. We now assess it is another Chinese surveillance balloon.”
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"President [Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva] has done a good job... of making clear that Brazil's institutions will identify and prosecute the people who were involved in this."
— on #DemocracyDialogues with
Watch the full conversation:
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Everyone should read this article. Bukele's war on gangs under the State of Exception has largely succeeded in freeing neighborhoods across the country of gang control. The cost is significant in terms of the evisceration of due process, violations of basic human rights,
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It takes an impressive amount of political and geographic illiteracy to argue that the U.S. has a military base in Hong Kong. 🙃🤡
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One quarter of all the immigrants in the country live in California. This is a drop box for ballots in Monterey Park. Take a look at all the languages spoken in the community!
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South Africa's decision to participate in naval exercises with Russia will sink its pretensions of neutrality over the war in Ukraine, says @ghoshworld bloomberg.com/opinion/articl via @opinion
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Meantime, Maduro rails against the supposed “colonial model” of the hydrocarbons license with Trinidad, curiously ignoring his own status with #Cuba. #Venezuela
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And in other breaking news, the sun will rise tomorrow in the east and set in the west…
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Marcelo Ebrard is "sure" he will run to be Mexico's president next year, he told @AlexVasquezS in an interview bloomberg.com/news/articles/ via @bpolitics
Current US trade policy, now on a bipartisan basis, is founded on a new mercantilism. Discuss.
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Im sorry but I just have to say it…it’s Friday, and for those about to rock, I salute you
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C’mon Prisoner aficionados, where ye be?
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It’s come to this (you see what I did there)?
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“Pentagon officials said the balloon had traveled from China to the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, and through northwest Canada over the past few days before arriving somewhere over Montana, where it was hovering on Wednesday.”
Checking out the snow?
nytimes.com/2023/02/02/us/
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One of Haiti’s biggest textile factories says it is closing an assembly plant and laying off 3,500 workers in yet another blow to the country’s crumbling economy: apnews.com/article/2e71fb
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Ojo Nicaragua es líder en corrupción pero también en Hambre según último informe de la ONU Nicaragua fue #1 en Hambre en Mesoamérica con 18,6% de subalimentación, seguido por Guatemala (16%) y Honduras (15,3%).
5 millones de personas con hambre en los 3países.
I would like to have seen Montana - Hunt for Red October
I have seen Montana - Xi from Red China
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The U.S. tracked a suspected Chinese spy balloon over America this week, U.S. officials said. @WSJ wsj.com/articles/chine
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U.S. says high-altitude Chinese spy balloon spotted this week over sensitive Montana installation that oversees Minuteman III ICBMs. Pentagon considered shooting it down but were concerned debris could cause injury
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A Chinese spy balloon the size of three buses has been spotted over Montana. The Pentagon convened an emergency meeting yesterday: Biden wanted to shoot it out of the sky, WSJ says, but military chiefs dissuaded him. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1
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What were the real differences between protests in Brazil & Peru? Is there a way out of the current crisis in either? Thank you to my colleague for this wide-ranging 30-minute chat as part of his #DemocracyDialogues series
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While the U.S. has so far ignored Uruguayan entreaties for a more substantial trade relationship, "China doesn’t require convincing," writes .
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The best one yet! #DemocracyDialogues
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What were the real differences between protests in Brazil & Peru? Is there a way out of the current crisis in either? Thank you to my colleague @ericfarns for this wide-ranging 30-minute chat as part of his #DemocracyDialogues series
youtu.be/RbBpOK4hMPs
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NEW: #DemocracyDialogues with ...we talk turkey on #Brazil, #Peru, and regional #democracy issues...have a look!
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Add to that now the marked shift in the US toward a mercantilist approach to trade, and the implications are enormous.
sketches out some rough approximations of what that will mean for trade.
I looked at the geopolitical implications here.
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