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Anthropologist. Mostly Latin America. NACLAista. Check out www.nacla.org. Wrote Bolivia in the Age of Gas (Duke 2020).

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Every single one of those graves is for a little girl between 7 and 12 years old. This is the reality of American imperalism.

04.03.2026 23:27 👍 101 🔁 60 💬 2 📌 2

"The Israeli right wing is determined to tear down every last vestige of International Humanitarian Law as it was legislated into being after WW II, and has cheapened public discourse to the point where no public officials even bother to call out these serial war crimes."

05.03.2026 01:36 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:

"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

04.03.2026 11:24 👍 8372 🔁 2889 💬 201 📌 451
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The Right Expands Its Campaign to Censor College Professors PEN America called 2025 ‘a year of catastrophe for higher education,’ but professors are fighting back against censorship.

“Our vision for a fully-funded public education, where a professor can write and teach freely, and can challenge every vapid, cruel argument federal and state governments make, sustains us. It’s what we’re fighting for.” 

—Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

04.03.2026 16:58 👍 67 🔁 35 💬 1 📌 2
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A Guatemalan Indigenous Council Struggles Against a Mine Targeted with two deaths and legal charges, Ch’orti’ people are fighting to permanently close a mining project that has polluted their lands.

Targeted with death threats, violence, and bogus legal charges, the Ch’orti’ people in Guatemala are still fighting to permanently close a mining project that has polluted their lands.

Read their story at nacla.org

nacla.org/guatemalan-i...

03.03.2026 20:14 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Farewell to Vicente Rafael We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of Vicente Rafael on February 21, 2026, at the age of 70. Vince was the author of five books with Duke University Press, a contributor to several edited…

We are deeply saddened to learn about the death of historian Vicente Rafael, author of five books & many articles with DUP. Here is our remembrance.

24.02.2026 17:15 👍 19 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
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The Long Shadow of Dos Erres Washington, D.C., February 24, 2026 - After a decade-long investigation and a trial lasting more than five weeks, a federal court in Ottawa has ruled to revoke the Canadian citizenship of a Guatemalan...

Other key records posted today include cables from the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala, which in the immediate aftermath of the massacre named the military as responsible. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

24.02.2026 18:43 👍 9 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

“Abolishing gender programs & the lessons they have taught, will, Trump & his acolytes hope, undermine our ability not just to condemn, but also to critically analyze the policies & practices they want to impose.”

Must Read by Joan Scott, member of the AAUP’s Committee on Academic Freedom.

15.02.2026 17:06 👍 97 🔁 54 💬 1 📌 1

Must-read:

16.02.2026 00:03 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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As mentiras por trás do discurso de desenvolvimento de empresários e políticos | Intercept Brasil De Daniel Vorcaro à Cargill, Sabrina Fernandes analisa como o estado atua como balcão de negócios para empresários enquanto vende a destruição de biomas como crescimento econômico.

Meu artigo do mês para o @intercept.com.br aborda as mentiras sobre o desenvolvimento que são usadas pelo lobby empresarial na sanha por privatizar serviços, explorar recursos e destruir a natureza em nome dk crescimento econômico.

12.02.2026 16:03 👍 138 🔁 38 💬 2 📌 1

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

09.02.2026 23:56 👍 3011 🔁 609 💬 51 📌 86
Cover of P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance by Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau. The title is in large white and yellow letters against a background featuring the Puerto Rican flag colors—red, white, and blue. The subtitle reads is highlighted in a black and yellow box. An illustration of Bad Bunny wearing a yellow outfit and a large straw hat, holding a microphone with yellow lightning bolts emanating from it is in the lower half. The authors' names are displayed at the bottom in red and blue text.

Cover of P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance by Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau. The title is in large white and yellow letters against a background featuring the Puerto Rican flag colors—red, white, and blue. The subtitle reads is highlighted in a black and yellow box. An illustration of Bad Bunny wearing a yellow outfit and a large straw hat, holding a microphone with yellow lightning bolts emanating from it is in the lower half. The authors' names are displayed at the bottom in red and blue text.

Through this #SuperBowl weekend, you can get the e-book edition of "P FKN R" by Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau for $9.99 or less! Links to retailers are on our site. #BadBunny
buff.ly/c3O101k

05.02.2026 19:20 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

It's pretty funny that Bari Weiss is purposely trying to recruit all the shittiest people on earth to destroy CBS News but she has to fire them whenever it becomes public that they're THIS shitty.

04.02.2026 22:01 👍 35 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

Stephen Miller is 10 times more dangerous than Kristi Noem who is also dangerous. Best case scenario is that they somehow ruin each other.

28.01.2026 13:35 👍 5445 🔁 1062 💬 368 📌 54
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A lot of people gathered tonight outside the Department of Veterans Affairs in D.C. for a vigil memorializing Alex Pretti, who worked as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital.

28.01.2026 23:12 👍 3636 🔁 950 💬 24 📌 21
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Debunking the US narrative on Venezuela - North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) Michael Fox looks at the misconceptions, myths, and misinformation that have been spread about Venezuela in the wake of the US invasion.

In the latest episode of Under the Shadow, Michael Fox looks at the misconceptions, myths, and misinformation that have been spread about Venezuela in the wake of the US invasion.

Listen to the episode at nacla.org📻nacla.org/debunking-us...-4

24.01.2026 17:34 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

They are going to throw someone under the bus beyond Bovino and we shouldn’t be fooled by this. Even if Noem or others go Miller and Trump are still there to ensure this won’t be over until they are all gone and held accountable for their crimes.

27.01.2026 01:42 👍 229 🔁 78 💬 8 📌 7
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Join us next Thursday, Jan. 29 to discuss the U.S. intervention in Venezuela with Alejandro Velasco, Gabriel Hetland, Andreina Torres Angarita, and Christy Thornton. Register here to attend in person or online 👇

bit.ly/4r29vyx

21.01.2026 15:57 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

As a Minneapolis resident, I’ll explain it this way: they already outnumber all PDs in the metro area, and we’re still not backing down. They have assault rifles and Kevlar vs our phones and whistles, and we’re still not backing down. Their morale is already shit, and we’re just getting started.

17.01.2026 17:09 👍 361 🔁 55 💬 4 📌 2
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Large Noise Demo Against ICE Crashed by Police Who Arrest 30 - UNICORN RIOT Minneapolis, MN — Over a thousand protesters visited two hotels in downtown Minneapolis on Friday night, equipped with loud noise makers, in an attempt to disrupt the sleep of any ICE officers who may...

NEW: Over a thousand protesters visited two hotels in downtown Minneapolis on Friday night, equipped with loud noise makers, in an attempt to disrupt the sleep of any ICE officers who may be staying in the hotels. 30 were arrested.

11.01.2026 23:59 👍 287 🔁 79 💬 7 📌 3

A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Year’s Eve.

Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body.

This is not new but it is expanding.

08.01.2026 00:21 👍 6725 🔁 3201 💬 45 📌 41
White House tweet:
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu announces President Trump is awarded with the Israel Prize. 🇺🇸🇮🇱

"It's going to be awarded to President Donald J. Trump for his tremendous contributions to Israel and the Jewish people" - 
@IsraeliPM

White House tweet: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu announces President Trump is awarded with the Israel Prize. 🇺🇸🇮🇱 "It's going to be awarded to President Donald J. Trump for his tremendous contributions to Israel and the Jewish people" - @IsraeliPM

Israel has killed 71,000+ Palestinians. Israeli forces and settlers have killed at least seven Americans.

Israel has taken $21+ billion in US aid while doing it all.

And still, the Trump-Vance-Rubio administration celebrates Donald Trump receiving the "Israel Award":

29.12.2025 22:35 👍 170 🔁 73 💬 13 📌 5

Nice. And some students rolled their eyes when I shared a slide quoting sun tzu on this. Great work!!

30.12.2025 01:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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US non-profits 'in the tank' for Exxon, Chevron over Venezuela oil As US sends warships to the region it's important to note that lobbyists and think tanks that get big bucks have been fanning the flames right here in DC

Takeaway from this Aug 2025 article:
- big oil wants in to Venezuela
- Chevron has stayed while Exxon was kicked out
- Exxon-backed NGOs have pushed for action while Chevron-backed have not..

Guess who won that one?

29.12.2025 22:43 👍 25 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 5

As these war criminals meet, remember that Israel is still bombing Gaza with US weapons, the genocide is ongoing, and at least 8000 Palestinian hostages remain in Israeli prisons.

Corporate media will likely ask about none of these atrocities.

29.12.2025 18:46 👍 437 🔁 210 💬 20 📌 9
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SFSU offers buyouts to all tenure-track and tenured faculty The Voluntary Separation Incentive Program is a “balancing act,” where there is a stronger incentive for tenured and tenure-track faculty to retire and open up room to hire back lecturer faculty.

It's a failure of the academic imagination to think cutting core mission is the best route to right-sizing. Keep your teachers and researchers and lower class sizes (post pandemic students need more attention). Get ur savings by cutting admin fat and all the contracts with groups like Huron.

23.12.2025 13:17 👍 25 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.

Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!

19.12.2025 12:25 👍 8806 🔁 4078 💬 86 📌 444
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What's new on nacla.org Don't miss the latest stories from NACLA!

Check out this week's newsletter for original reporting on the deadly contradictions of the "War on Drugs" in Latin America. Read as well about Chile's right-wing turn, Bolivian fuel subsidies, U.S. threats against Venezuela and Colombia, and more.

nacla.salsalabs.org/dec_19_25

19.12.2025 18:54 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Cover of P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance by Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau. The title is in large white and yellow letters against a background featuring the Puerto Rican flag colors—red, white, and blue. The subtitle reads is highlighted in a black and yellow box. An illustration of Bad Bunny wearing a yellow outfit and a large straw hat, holding a microphone with yellow lightning bolts emanating from it is in the lower half. The authors' names are displayed at the bottom in red and blue text.

Cover of P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance by Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau. The title is in large white and yellow letters against a background featuring the Puerto Rican flag colors—red, white, and blue. The subtitle reads is highlighted in a black and yellow box. An illustration of Bad Bunny wearing a yellow outfit and a large straw hat, holding a microphone with yellow lightning bolts emanating from it is in the lower half. The authors' names are displayed at the bottom in red and blue text.

In "P Fkn R," Vanessa Díaz and Petra Rivera-Rideau offer a portrait of the past and future of Puerto Rican resistance through one of its loudest and proudest voices: Bad Bunny. Read the intro for free on our site! buff.ly/hbSewLN

19.12.2025 18:07 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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El puerto de Chancay: un dramático impulso para el extractivismo en América del Sur Aunque financiado sobre todo por China, el puerto de Chancay abre las puertas a inversionistas de cualquier bandera. Bajo la desgastada promesa del “desarrollo”, se profundizará el modelo extractivist...

Aunque financiado sobre todo por China, el puerto de Chancay abre las puertas a inversionistas de cualquier bandera. Bajo la desgastada promesa del “desarrollo”, se profundizará el modelo extractivista en América del Sur grain.org/e/7341

15.12.2025 15:00 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0