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Geoff Ramsey

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Latin America politics, human rights, and security analyst. Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
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Jeremy Chao @jmchao.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Lockjaw from One Battle After Another stepping into his Christmas Adventurers office.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 24/01/2026
Moments before the first shot is fired, this federal agent can be seen retreating with a gun. It appears to match the general appearance of the firearm posted by DHS, including the red dot sight. This agent’s back is turned when the first shot occurs. x.com/BillMelugin_...
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 05/11/2025
Venezuelan editor Quico Toro joins @davidfrum.bsky.social to talk about the Trump administration’s brinksmanship with Venezuela—and why a conflict in the Caribbean could be a disaster for everyone involved. Watch "The David Frum Show":
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America on the Brink of War With Venezuela
Quico Toro on the Trump administration’s dangerous game of brinksmanship with Venezuela, and why a conflict in the Caribbean could be a disaster for everyone involved. Plus: Trump’s newest attempt at a constitutional coup, and a discussion of The Oppermanns, by Lion Feuchtwanger.
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David Smilde @dsmilde.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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Rand Paul Reveals Venezuela Boat Attack Was a Drone Strike
Sen. Rand Paul told The Intercept the attack defied rules of engagement and came from a drone. A legal expert calls it murder.
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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Russia’s government paper: “It’s practically a foregone conclusion the US will pull out of Ukraine talks.” Another paper: “The unity of the West is gone. Geopolitically it’s no longer an alliance. Trumpism has destroyed the Atlantic consensus confidently & quickly.” #ReadingRussia
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Steve's Reading Russia - Russian Press Review (24 April 2025)
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 24/04/2025
Not the main point here, but "3 Venezuelans removed to Salvador on 3/31" is brand new. 7 Ven and 10 Sv citizens were on a military flight the evening of 3/30—see images—but this seems different. The "288 people rendered to El Salvador" stat may be inaccurate. There may be more we don't know about.

More Foreign Gang Terrorists Deported Out of America

Press Statement

Marco Rubio, Secretary of State

March 31, 2025

Last night, in a successful counter-terrorism operation with our allies in El Salvador, the United States military transferred a group of 17 violent criminals from the Tren de Aragua and MS-13 organizations, including murderers and rapists. 

In order to keep the American people safe, President Trump designated the Tren de Aragua and MS-13 as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. These criminals will no longer terrorize our communities and citizens. 

Once again, we extend our gratitude to President Bukele and the government of El Salvador for their unparalleled partnership in making our countries safe against transnational crime and terrorism.
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
BREAKING: 17 illegal aliens with serious criminal histories were removed to El Salvador last night after being held at Guantanamo Bay, WH officials tell @FoxNews
. They include 7 alleged TdA members & several convicted murderers, rapists, & pedophiles. None were removed via the Alien Enemies Act. All were deported via Title 8/regular US immigration law, and all had final orders of removal/deportation orders.

Trump WH officials have provided a list of names and criminal histories of the aliens who were sent to El Salvador. All details below, according to WH:

ELMER CONCEPCION ROMERO YANES, a Salvadoran national convicted of homicide.
KEIVIS JESUS ARRECHEDERA VASQUEZ, a Venezuelan national/alleged Tren de Aragua leader with pending drug charges. WH provided photos of him w/ crown tattoos.
CARLOS ALVARENGA GUILLEN, a Salvadoran national convicted of rape & aggravated assault of minor. 
JORGE GUERRERO-QUINTERO, an alleged Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang member convicted of sex crime/assault on a minor & criminal weapon possession.
FELIPE GOMEZ, a Salvadoran national convicted of homicide.
LEANDRO HERADO ZAMBRANO, a Venezuelan alleged Tren de Aragua member w/ pending charges for kidnapping & assault. 
RAFAEL MEJIA, a Salvadoran national convicted of child molestation and multiple lewd acts w/ a child.
BRAYANT SILVA RAUSEO, a Venezuelan self-admitted Tren de Aragua gang member.
LINO  PEREZ DELGADO, a Salvadoran national convicted of sexual assault of a minor.
JOSE MORALES-HERNANDEZ, a Salvadoran national convicted of homicide, negligent manslaughter. 
ELMER ESCOBAR GONZALEZ, a Salvadoran national convicted of sexual assault.
JOSE MEDRANO HERNANDEZ, a Salvadoran national convicted of aggravated sexual abuse of a child.
ALEJANDRO RAMOS, a Salvadoran national convicted of sexual exploitation of a minor under age 13 & aggravated assault. 
MAIKER ESPINOZA ESCALONA, a Venezuelan national alleged to be a confirmed Tren de Aragua gang member convicted o…
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Lot fewer fake experts during financial crises because you can't just spout off from the Wikipedia page about money
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 02/04/2025
George Lucas right now is hunched over a Wayback Machine mirror of a bunch of 1999 fan forums going wild over how no one wants to hear about trade policy, sipping wine from his California wine farm, just giggling
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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Note the government is doing 2 separate things here: 1) Acknowledging it made a mistake (violated US law by deporting someone who was legally protected from deportation). 2) Refusing to fix the mistake by claiming it has no authority to do so.
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 16/03/2025
OK, just to sum up what seems apparent from the flight data. Saturday evening: * ~6:47: Judge Boasberg issues temporary restraining order. * 7:02: 1 flight lands in San Salvador, plane doors likely open later than that. * 11:05pm and 12:03am: 2 flights land in San Salvador after stop in Honduras.
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HRL Harlingen, TX
SAL San Salvador, El Salvador
Saturday 15-Mar-2025 04:45PM CDT
(2 hours 15 minutes late)
Saturday 15-Mar-2025 06:02PM CST
Departures (More)
Ident 	Type 	To 	Depart 		Arrive
CMP386	B738	Tocumen Int'l (PTY)		04:52a CST 	
	07:49a EST
AVA101	A320	El Dorado Int'l (BOG)		01:24a CST 	
	05:10a -05
GXA6123	A320	El Salvador Int'l (SAL)		10:41p CST 	
	11:03PM CST (?)
GXA6144	A320	El Salvador Int'l (SAL)		09:41p CST 	
	10:05PM CST (?)
EVE806	A359	Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas (MAD)		09:16p CST 	
	01:22p CET
TAI449	A320	El Salvador Int'l (SAL)		07:33p CST 	
	07:59PM CST (?)
AAL3010	B738	Dallas-Fort Worth Intl (DFW)		03:33p CST 	
	08:07p CDT
AAL2100	B38M	Miami Intl (MIA)		02:50p CST 	
	06:51p EDT
CMP719	B738	Tocumen Int'l (PTY)		02:06p CST 	
	04:43p EST
NKS1329	A320	Fort Lauderdale Intl (FLL)		12:38p CST 	
	04:46p EDT
UAL527	B737	Houston Bush Int'ctl (IAH)		12:38p CST 	
	04:32p CDT
AAL1096	A319	Miami Intl (MIA)		12:28p CST 	
	04:43p EDT
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Katherine Yon Ebright @ebrightyon.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
In advance of an Alien Enemies Act proclamation, I want to state as clearly as possible: The president will say this is about targeting members of Tren de Aragua, but it is not. Immigration law already allows the deportation of members of that group. /1
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
A huge decision from Judge Amir Ali, meticulously reasoned and utterly scathing, finding that Trump’s foreign aid freeze is almost certainly an illegal and arbitrary abuse of power. He orders the immediate restoration of all international assistance. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
Consistent with the reasoning above, it is hereby ORDERED that Defendants Marco
Rubio, Peter Marocco, Russell Vought, the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Agency for
International Development, and the Office of Management and Budget (the "Restrained
Defendants") and their agents are temporarily enjoined from enforcing or giving effect to Sections
1, 5, 7, 8, and 9 of Dep't of State, Memorandum, 25 STATE 6828 (Jan. 24, 2025) and any other
directives that implement Sections 3(a) and 3(c) of Executive Order Number 14169, "Reevaluating
and Realigning United States Foreign Aid" (Jan. 20, 2025), including by:
• suspending, pausing, or otherwise preventing the obligation or disbursement appropriated foreign-assistance funds in connection with any contracts, grants, cooperative
agreements, loans, or other federal foreign assistance award that was in existence as of
January 19, 2025; or
• issuing, implementing, enforcing, or otherwise giving effect to terminations, suspensions, or stop-work orders in connection with any contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, loans, or other federal foreign assistance award that was in existence as of January 19, 2025.It is further hereby ORDERED that nothing in this order shall prohibit the Restrained
Defendants from enforcing the terms of contracts or grants.
It is further hereby ORDERED that the Restrained Defendants shall take all steps necessary to effectuate this order and shall provide written notice of this order to all recipients of
existing contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements for foreign assistance.
It is further hereby ORDERED that the Restrained Defendants shall file a status report by
February 18, 2025, apprising the Court of the status of their compliance with this order, including by providing a copy of the written notice described above.
The parties shall meet and confer and file a joint status report by February 14, 2025, at 5:00
p.m. proposing an expedited preliminary injunction briefing schedule.
AMIR H. ALI
United States District Judge
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Via Robbie Gramer at Politico, in a legal filing a USAID employee details trying to leave Kinshasa, Congo with their family and leaving their possessions behidn amid panic created by Trump and Musk's sudden shutdown of the agency
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David Smilde @dsmilde.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
In my democratic erosion seminar last night, we discussed a prescient 2018 article from legal scholars Aziz Huq and Tom Ginsburg on "How to Lose a Constitutional Democracy" 1/n www.uclalawreview.org/wp-content/u...
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David Smilde @dsmilde.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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NIH slashes funding for research overhead, leaving universities scrambling
It’s the Trump administration’s latest blow to the American higher education system, which Republicans for years have blasted for churning out liberal-minded graduates.
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 08/02/2025
US Southern Command's naval component, writing about Guantánamo, seems really excited to be permitted to call people "illegal aliens" again. www.fourthfleet.navy.mil/Press-Room/N...
 Military service members and contractors have provided the manpower and organization to accommodate thousands’ illegal aliens.  Additional phases of expansion will follow to meet the President’s directive to host up to 30,000 illegal aliens. This work includes the construction of large, secure tent facilities to house illegal aliens, the installation of high-security fencing and barriers to protect all personnel, and a huge increase in providing essential services, including food, medical care, and housing, to all DOD and DHS personnel. The Navy is also delivering comprehensive logistical support, ensuring the infrastructure and resources needed to sustain operations are in place.
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David Smilde @dsmilde.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
El mejor artículo sobre la visita de Grenell a Venezuela: efectococuyo.com/politica/pas...
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Paso a paso: ¿cómo fue la negociación entre Grenell y Maduro? - Efecto Cocuyo
Las prioridades de los americanos son la migración y la expulsión de los miembros del Tren de Aragua y el chavismo puja por un acuerdo global para el levantamiento de las sanciones
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s travel schedule, per source: Israel — Feb 15-16 UAE — Feb 16-17 Qatar — Feb 17 Saudi Arabia — Feb 17-18
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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Hey man sorry to hear about all your political turmoil. Would it help if I scrolled around on the computer all day and drove myself insane?
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Asked if he would order special forces into Mexico to take out cartels, Trump says: "Could happen." (Military source tells me that SOCNORTH [U.S. Special Operations Command North] is being tasked with new border security responsibilities)
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Francisco J. Monaldi @fmonaldi.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The dark market oil...
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Sergio Guzmán @sergioguzman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
La lucha contra la corrupción no justifica que se rompan las normas de contratación, se viole la libre competencia y se estigmatice sin pruebas a un contratista del Estado. www.elespectador.com/opinion/edit...
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El capricho de los pasaportes no era legal
Por más argucias retóricas que empleen el excanciller o sus defensores, el desastre ocurrido con esta licitación es culpa del Gobierno.
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Boz @bloggingsbyboz.bsky.social · 26/12/2023
Today's newsletter: "Every political fight is treated as a battle for the soul of the country and a must-win fight for its future direction. Every political leader is elected with both a mandate for radical change and an expectation of swift positive results." boz.substack.com/p/existentia...
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Boz @bloggingsbyboz.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
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puzkas.bsky.social @puzkas.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Hello there!!!!
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Geoff Ramsey @gramsey.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Read our recent report on obstacles and opportunities to implement #Venezuela’s historic humanitarian agreement here: www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res...
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Getting Venezuela’s historic humanitarian accord up and running
Venezuela's crisis has generated a large and complex global emergency. Recent negotiations have resulted in agreements between the Maduro regime and the opposition, including a $3.2 billion Social Agr...
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