Author and journalist. Researcher
@CEI_Iscte
. Writing a book on Frederick Douglass in Haiti. Enemy to autocrats. Friend to all cats. Piti piti, wazo fe nich-li.
This photo by my friend
@federicorios
of a little Venezuelan girl looking at her exhausted father as they desperately try to traverse the Darien Gap between Colombia & Panama to start a new life is the story of the collapse of
#Venezuela
in a single image.
If this is how Pakistan’s government acts in front of cameras in Washington, DC, imagine what they get up to in Afghanistan when they think no one is looking.
AMLO appeared eccentric and ridiculous. I have watched these events with Mexican presidents at the White House going back to Ernesto Zedillo and I don't recall one ever making such a risible spectacle of himself.
Tras breves palabras de Biden, AMLO sacó un fajo de hojas y leyó por 30 minutos. Más de 40 minuto duró la reunión pública (con prensa) en la Oficina Oval que, de acuerdo al protocolo, deben limitarse a dar oportunidad de foto o "photo op", con intercambio de saludos breves.
I've reported about politics from around the world for more than 20 years, and I can honestly say (no reflection on the status issue itself), but Puerto Rico's ruling Partido Nuevo Progresista is a uniquely corrupt, dishonest & cynical enterprise.
En la sección de las gradas de funcionarios PNPs colgaron una caja que lee “RIP Natal 2013-2020” con una foto del representante y candidato a alcalde de San Juan por el MVC.
@cbenespanol
Mexico's president is a thin-skinned & untrustworthy diva who believes he is above the law & has the right to use the full power of the state to obsessively attack & dox his political opponents.
This is what impeached, one-term president
@realDonaldTrump
came back to at the White House after he learned he had been defeated for reelection by
@JoeBiden
.
My best wishes for a successful term in leading USA as we stand united and resilient in addressing common challenges and advancing global peace and security.
Always remember that Danny Glover took $18 million from the struggling people of Venezuela ostensibly for a movie about Haiti that he never bothered to make.
If Bernie spoke Portuguese, he would be shocked to learn that there are an awful lot of Brazilians (by no means all far-right Bolsonaro acolytes) who thought Lula broke the law and that jail was the exactly appropriate remedy.
As President, Lula has done more than anyone to lower poverty in Brazil and to stand up for workers. I am delighted that he has been released from jail, something that never should have happened in the first place.
All the people who spent years taking money from RT, Sputnik etc now in an uproar because their Twitter handles have been labeled “Russia state media affiliated.” 😂
The fact that Noam Chomsky - who lied about the genocide in Cambodia, lied about the genocide in Rwanda and lied about the genocide in the Balkans - still gets quoted as some some sort of wise old sage is not a good commentary on the journalists who solicit his opinion, folks…
I am very surprised that the
@washingtonpost
would run an article on
@neeratanden
in which one of its quoted critical sources is a guy who was literally fired for his obsessive harassment of her without bothering to mention that fact. How does one miss something like that?
March 2017, Syria: Mohammad Mohiedine Anis, 70, smokes his pipe as he sits in his destroyed bedroom listening to music on his vinyl player in Aleppo's Al-Shaar neighbourhood. It could be Mariupol today, wth the same villain responsible: Putin. Photo: Joseph Eid.
On this day in 1803, Haiti’s Toussaint Louverture, revolutionary & advocate for human liberty, died in a jail cell in the Jura Mountains in France. Less than a year later, Haiti would declare its independence, marking the beginning of the end for slavery in the Western Hemisphere
One of the survivors of the attack against
#Hazara
schoolgirls in
#Kabul
that killed 53. You don't have to speak the language. Her eyes and the timbre of her voice say it all.
#StopHazaraGenocide
#Afghanistan
Shocking that the tedious chattering class of professional pundits would employ a double-standard when writing (condescendingly) about a Latina woman. I, for one, hope to see more like
@Ocasio2018
, regular working people inspired to enter govt
#NY
#NYC
"We can't stand back and watch genocide" say the same people who sat back and watched entire communities wiped out in DR Congo, Sudan, Central African Republic, Syria, Afghanistan, Xinjiang, Yemen etc and often in fact abetted the slaughter. Seriously, spare me...
@rogerwaters
@SenSanders
Roger, you old windbag, one would think you could shuffle off w/o developing a hobby in your dotage of crimes against humanity denial. Porqué no te callas? Hunger, punishment and fear, the formula for repression used by authorities under Nicolás Maduro
@Snowden
Being a “journalist” does not mean one can 1) Allegedly sexually assault people 2) Skip bail on the related case. Speaking of freedom of expression, any thoughts for the dissidents in
#Belarus
that
#WikiLeaks
helped get jailed?
As someone who has spent 20+ years reporting on it abroad, this is militia terrorism in our nation's capital in the service of a lawless, criminal tyrant. Those responsible need to pay a high price for this.
Just returned from Kashmir. Twelve year olds detained and beaten in midnight raids. Women threatened with rape. Young boys given electric shocks, families unaware of their whereabouts. This is the NORMAL you talk about. This is the worst I have seen in the valley yet
#Kashmir
Unpacking in the new place I find this: A cross that I bought in
#Ethiopia
’s
#Tigray
region about 15 years ago. Never thought this formerly peaceful part of the world would be living through the days that it is living through today. 😢
When two idiots blissfully ignorant about the Vietnam War, the Algerian War, the Haitian Revolution, the U.S. Revolutionary War, Cuba’s Ten Years War etc lie & have a conversation on Twitter. This is what happens when you don’t read, people.
#Yemen
journalist who backed independence for south is shot dead; Nabil Hasan al-Quaety, who worked for AFP among others, targeted in his car in Aden
#journalism
Juan Romero, Mexican immigrant busboy who comforted Robert Kennedy after he was shot, dies at 68. “He wasn’t looking at my skin, he wasn’t looking at my age...He was looking at me as an American.”
What to make of the fact that
#PuertoRico
Gov.
@ricardorossello
virtually hides from local & intl media based in
#SanJuan
, but grants an interview in English to
@FoxNews
, which almost no one on the island can watch & even fewer could understand?
#Rwanda
's dictatorship is yet again busy waging a violent illegal war against DR
#Congo
as the UK Home office is planning to deport asylum seekers there for "processing." How many Afghans, Iranians etc will be gang-pressed into the ranks of the
#M23
?
#drc
The
@HoustonChron
is done with
@tedcruz
: "We’re done with the drama. Done with the opportunism. Done with the cynical scheming that has now cost American lives. Resign, Mr. Cruz, and deliver Texas from the shame of calling you our senator."
@csaba_vincze
@rogerwaters
@SenSanders
Let's be clear: The "reelection" of Maduro was a sad farce roundly rejected incl by the UN, the opposition is following the constitution & Maduro & co are supported by Cuban intelligence, Russian mercs & Colombia's ELN.
"In El Salvador, without being on seas of oil, a roll of toilet paper does not cost us a month's salary." El Salvador President
@nayibbukele
responds to
@NicolasMaduro
#venezuela
Más respeto Sr.
@NicolasMaduro
, habla de un Presidente electo democráticamente, a diferencia suya.
Contrario a usted, 9 de cada 10 personas aprueban mi Gobierno.
Y En El Salvador, sin estar sobre mares de petróleo, un rollo de papel higiénico no nos cuesta el salario de un mes.
Folks, you can't scream about your commitment to human rights in Palestine while belonging to or working hand-in-hand with orgs who deny human rights to Cubans, Nicaraguans, Syrians, Venezuelans etc. I don't know why this is so hard to grasp.
“The decision to go to war was taken by two countries,” says Lula. No, it wasn’t, you corrupt old clown. One country, Russia, invaded another, Ukraine, in an imperial war of extermination. The entire world watched it happen. Is this really the best Brazil can do for its leaders?
Lula volta a comentar invasão russa à Ucrânia. “Decisão da guerra foi tomada por dois países”.
Em entrevista coletiva na madrugada deste domingo (16), presidente do Brasil repetiu que EUA e Europa contribuem para a continuidade do conflito.
Assista ▶️
@csaba_vincze
@rogerwaters
@SenSanders
It is important. Save for some that targeted the personal assets of Maduro & his clique, they were put in place last month. Venezuelans have been murdered, pauperized & forced to flee in the millions by their own govt for years. And THAT'S important.
The leaders of Brazil, Colombia and Mexican cannot complain about the exodus of Venezuela's people to their countries when they appear to be doing everything they can to guarantee the conditions that drove them out in the first place continue.
The amount of abuse that Cubans, Nicaraguans, Syrians, Ukrainians, Venezuelans etc put up with on this platform for just asking their humanity & struggles be acknowledged - & b/c those struggles do not fit into a binary left vs right narrative - is always shocking to see.
Like journalists at Charlie Hebdo, like reporters in Mexico, like Jacques Roche, Salman Rushdie was attacked for simply working his craft as all of us who work w/words do, to terrorize others into silence under tyranny. Keep doing what you do, writers, & it will be our revenge.
"The president of the United States is under the thumb of
#Putin
. And the Republican Party he leads no longer deserves to survive."
#Trump
#Russia
#GOP
via
@JoeNBC
I last reported from there more than a decade ago, but what I saw in Kashmir and the crimes the Indian state was and is party to there will stay with me always.
Last conversation of Basim with his father. 13-year-old Basim succumbed to burn injuries in a hospital on Wednesday after Srinagar gunfight when a damaged house collapsed.
#kashmir
#encounter
Thread: If you watched the full press conference between Brazil's Minister of Foreign Affairs Mauro Vieira and Russia's war criminal Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Brasilia today, it's actually much worse than has been reported...
In
#PuertoRico
, if you try to defend the national patrimony or the environment, you wind up in jail. But you can beat a surfer to death with a baseball bat, kill a dog on a golf course, or repeatedly threaten & stalk a woman and still be walking around free.
In statement after the arrests,
#PuertoRico
Gov
@ricardorossello
says "our administration will not tolerate corruption & anyone who fails that trust must pay with the full weight of law...I reiterate the call for collaboration with law & order agencies."
This is the ethos of
@AbiyAhmedAli
, maximum misery inflicted on as many people as possible (with help from China, Turkey & the UAE): On Day Biden Calls
#Ethiopia
’s Leader to Urge Peace, a Drone Strike Kills 17
#tigray
El
#Salvador
president
@nayibbukele
will veto amnesty law approved by legislature, says it amounts to "defacto impunity" for crimes committed during 1979-1992 civil war
France's
@ARTEfr
shows the devastating impact that the govt of
#Ethiopia
's war on
#Tigray
has had on the most vulnerable there. "Famine kills indiscriminately and first of all the youngest children."
The
@KyivIndependent
& other sources reporting Ukrainian journalist Oleksandra Kuvshynova was also killed today in Kyiv Oblast, the third death of journalists due to Russian attacks. Without local journalists, foreign reporters like myself would be utterly lost. RIP, colleague.
After seeing the parade of paramilitary police w/fearsome weaponry heading in a stream out of
@fortalezapr
earlier, I was, honestly reminded of some tyrannies I've reported on in places like Haiti & Côte d'Ivoire. I hope my fears for the next hours are misplaced.
#puertorico
"In
#Tigray
, single-use items such as gloves, surgical materials and even chest drains are being washed and reused, increasing the risk of infections...Patients are receiving expired medications [and] oxygen plants are not working anymore"
#ethiopia
Having watched him in public life for years, I would say the defining characteristic of Mexico's AMLO is his complete indifference to the other people's pain. Beyond him & his acolytes, the suffering of other people - journalists, women, migrants - simply doesn't matter.
Shyamala Gopalan, the mother of Kamala Harris, was a distinguished cancer researcher and civil rights activist who was born in Madras (now Chennai), India.
You can’t know who
@KamalaHarris
is without knowing who our mother was. Missing her terribly, but know she and the ancestors are smiling today.
#BidenHarris2020
“He is a man who wants to impose his terms on the course of justice, he wants justice only when it’s in his favor”: Julian
#Assange
’s Arrest Warrant Is Upheld by U.K. Judge
#WikiLeaks
When I visited
#Kashmir
in 2007, I couldn't find a single family that had not been impacted by extradjudicial killings, disappearences or torture linked to
#India
's security forces. I wrote about it here. The kids I met then would be in their early 20s now
The president of Haiti,
@moisejovenel
, has been assassinated by a team of commandos who attacked his home in the hills above Port-au-Prince. Pray for
#Haiti
and its people.
"We don't have medicine for our patients, we don't have surgical materials to do surgery, we don't have vaccines to vaccinate children, we don't have insulin to give to diabetic patients...Basically cancer patients are doomed to die"
#tigray
I'm voting for
@ewarren
you
@DrJillStein
-supportring headcase. But thanks for proving in as dramatic fashion as possible that the most demented, toxic aspects of the campaign (& I voted for
@BernieSanders
in the 2016 primary) are coming from the top down.
If you wouldn’t even condone a tweet criticizing a racist authoritarian like Bloomberg, you are a fence sitting enabler of the worst variety and have no business holding yourself holding yourself out as a Democrat — much less a progressive.
Puerto Rico is living through another natural catastrophe and a good swathe of the U.S. media is instead focusing on the funeral of a foreign monarch half a world away. No problem with covering the funeral in some fashion per se, but this is a problem.
"Nor are Tigrayans outside
#Tigray
spared Ethiopian state-led attacks. They face widespread discrimination, persistent threats, and mass incarceration...Many, including former peacekeepers and military personnel, are still being held incommunicado."
Anyone who believes that the protests in
#PuertoRico
are some kind of transitory or merely political expression did not see the streets of
#SanJuan
yesterday. Something had changed on the island.
Lula always subscribed to the “she shouldn’t have worn that short skirt” school of foreign policy. Whether kids getting shot down in Venezuela or the nation of Ukraine, somehow they did something to “deserve” it. Brazil would be better to toss him & Bolsonaro out it w/the trash.
Former Human Rights Watch grandee believes that photos of the foods of Jews who were driven out of every Arab country by deranged pogroms & state-sponsored repression = “thievery.” The masks really have come off, haven’t they?
“This is my country, my city, and I have a lot here I need to fight for,” she tells me, “for the past, for the future, because I am human, I guess it’s my duty to make the future safer for everyone.”
I am dismayed that
@ForeignPolicy
would publish the demented ramblings of a well-known apologist for
#Ethiopia
's dictatorship & its policy of war crimes & ethnic cleansing.
#tigray