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Marco Fonseca

@marcofonseca.bsky.social
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I blog at marcofonseca.substack.com. My books include Gramsci’s Critique of Civil Society: Towards a New Concept of Hegemony (Routledge 2016); La articulación posible. Principios gramscianos para una nueva política democrática (F&G Editores 2024).

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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 21h
We say NO to new oil/gas pipelines and other megaprojects that destroy communities, wreck the environment and worsen the climate crisis.
nationalobserver.com
Carney's push for new pipeline hits flashpoints across Canada
Mark Carney's decision to list the Pacific Link Pipeline as a 'project of national interest' is drawing concern from environmental, political and Indigenous groups.
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#LatinosComLula #LatinosComLula #LatinosComLula
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#BoraLula #BoraLula #BoraLula
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Despicable elite of technofascists, neoliberals and sycophants.
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And here's more on the state-capital surveillance complex with huge implications not only for privacy, but for any meaningful (and leftover) form of democracy.
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
For those who think the surveillance society with a panopticonian alliance between state and capital is just leftwing radical rhetoric. Think again.
wired.com
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Here is the anatomy of a war crime committed in complete impunity by a world power against completely innocent school children and teachers. The perpetrators must face justice, sooner or later.
democracynow.org
“The School That Became a Grave”: Jeremy Scahill on U.S Bombing of Minab, Killing 120+ Iranian Kids
Drop Site News released a major investigation this week into the U.S. bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh children’s school in the Iranian city of Minab on February 28, the first day of the U.S.-Israeli ...
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This makes me want to vomit: Saudi oil «scientists» have infiltrated the IPCC and its reports. Disgraceful.
theguardian.com
How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports
Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
La hipocresía del MAGABruto no tiene límites. De verdad. Habla de guerra contra «narco-terroristas» y, al mismo tiempo, indulta a traficantes y lavadores de dinero con los que obviamente tiene una relación «transaccional» muy jugosa. Toda su política anti-drogas en Latam es un ataque al progresismo.
diario-red.com
Trump indulta a 28 traficantes de drogas mientras acusa que México “está controlado por el narco”. “Lucra con perdones” acusan demócratas
El presidente estadounidense Donald Trump, lejos de su retórica de mano dura contra la delincuencia con la que ha intentado justificar su injerencia en Latin...
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Read the transcript of this interview and see what grade six-level grammar looks like. And that's just the way the MAGAMoron speaks. The way he thinks or the way his mushy, low-IQ brain works is positively bacterial. And that, ladies and gents, is the leader of the MAGAHerd.
time.com
Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The MAGABrute wants a coup and would very much like to declare a "state of emergency" for the mid-terms. He knows he's toast, that he's widely & deeply despised like a festering orange turd, that he's a total failure - from tariffs & wars to his ICEThugs, moronic fascist aesthetics & stinking farts.
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They absolutely always turn it around on purpose. High school students in France are rising up in protest against overloaded timetables, overcrowded classes, insufficient teachers and unbearable temperatures during heatwaves. The state neglect of public education is thus at a boiling point.
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Mark Carney takes a huge, huge step backwards and in favor of transnational capital. As part of his pro-business agenda he is seeking to create more obstacles for unions' right to strike. He's really governing Canada like an investment banker, not like a national leader at all. Well, give him hell!
jacobin.com
Mark Carney Is Taking Aim at Canada’s Labor Movement
Mark Carney wants to make Canada a destination for global investment. To this end, his new omnibus bill casts the right to strike as an obstacle to the “national interest” — and organized labor as a b...
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"It was the moment at which a racist sect of loudmouths and club-wielders, a party of absolute cranks, came to be politically legitimised." The election of Hitler's NSDAP in 1930 as narrated by Philip Oltermann. This particular phrasing can equally apply to many extreme far-right parties today.
theguardian.com
‘Hitler was a lazy criminal who slept in until noon’: why most of what we think we know about the rise of the Nazis is wrong
In a new book, German artist and writer Philipp Ruch argues that viewing the ascent of Hitler’s NSDAP through the prism of the Third Reich has distorted our understanding of fascism’s electoral breakt...
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
SCOTUS vs international law. International law, including the Convention Against Torture and the 1951 Refugee Convention, prohibits sending individuals to any country where they face a risk of persecution, torture, or serious harm. But SCOTUS says it's ok to deport people anywhere the US wants.
theguardian.com
US supreme court allows Trump officials to resume deportations to third countries
Conservative majority temporarily lifts lower-court decision as liberal justices dissent from ruling
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Because, of course, the titans of industry have an excellent track record of upholding “morally binding” agreements that put controls on their life-threatening, planet-destroying products. Just look around, for instance, at the self-policing of Big Tobacco, Big Oil or Big Pharma, all good citizens 🤑
theguardian.com
Trump announces vague ‘morally binding’ AI deal among tech CEOs for ‘tremendous self-policing’
US president also issued executive order officially rebranding ‘artificial intelligence’ as ‘superintelligence’
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In 1992 the Union of Concerned Scientists and more than 1700 independent scientists, including the majority of living Nobel laureates in the sciences, penned the “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity”. Did anybody in powerful states and transnational corporations pay attention? NOTHING.
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This country is, without any doubts, addicted to death. And they've created all sorts of clever and not-so-clever ways to justify murdering people in the name of the state and g-d.
theguardian.com
Tennessee to execute a woman for first time in 200 years after governor denies clemency
Lawyers for Christa Pike, 50, convicted of killing classmate in Knoxville in 1995, ask supreme court to grant stay
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The ICEtapo is on a new killing spree.
theguardian.com
Three deaths, three states, 24 hours: one day in ICE’s quiet but ‘gruesome’ surge
These men in Maine, Georgia and Florida shared no ties – until they became casualties in Trump’s anti-immigration campaign
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Terrible how, as the climate breaks down and the planet burns to death, so-called "political leaders" can continue gleefully planning fossil-fuel megaprojects and completely ignoring the urgency and, indeed moral imperative, of accelerating the transition away from fossil fuels and runaway growth.
nationalobserver.com
Doug Ford says he'll spend public money on east-west oil pipeline
Ontario’s premier sees no reason why it should take more than four years to build a 3,300 kilometre pipeline between Alberta and his province. “We just believe that it can get done,” he said.
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As activists have always said and insist on today, the real criminals are not those who support #Palestine in the UK or elsewhere. The real terrorist criminals are those who are in power, have been in power and, after all their shameless lies, walk free after the genocide of the Palestinian people.
democracynow.org
“Britain’s Gaza Secrets Exposed”: How U.K. Downplayed Israeli Crimes to Keep Selling Weapons
A new documentary titled Britain’s Gaza Secrets Exposed reveals new details about the U.K. government’s internal response to alleged Israeli war crimes in Gaza. Presented by journalist Ramita Navai an...
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They truly operate like an anti-migrant Gestapo. No difference in tactics or even ideology whatsoever. Fascism through and through.
theguardian.com
Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever
After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Does the EU really want a war with Russia? Looks like that's what the mouth-foaming russophobe EU foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, is saying camouflaged as self-defense rhetoric as she calls for rearming EU by 2030 - as if they're not already armed to the teeth. Sounds like a "G-d wills it" cry!
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The whole world should cooperate without the US. Who cares if that crumbling empire is “not in a position” to support a major UN political declaration on pandemic prevention. That empire cannot hold the planet hostage to the imbecility that led to the COVID-19 pandemic and its disastrous handling.
theguardian.com
US response to UN pandemic talks ‘severely weakens’ global planning, says leading health expert
The US says it is unable to support a major global text on pandemic prevention and preparedness put forward at UN general assembly
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ever wondered how these punks are chosen to lead major companies? You can bet your bottom line that it's never democratically. It's always according to principles (growth, expansion, maximization of profits or share/stakeholder interests, etc.) that are not only anti-union, but also anti-planet.
cbc.ca
Incoming Air Canada CEO's current airline engaged in 'anti-labour' behaviour, says Canadian union head | CBC News
The union representing Air Canada pilots says it is concerned about what it calls a "retaliatory and anti-labour" action by Scandinavian Airlines — which is currently run by Air Canada's next CEO.
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In other words, when it comes to the real threat of runaway AI and the warning that it could "cause a billions deaths", what this billionaire capitalist is calling for is just window dressing: “It will be a little bit of overhead for the industry – but not a dramatic slowing of what they’re doing.”
theguardian.com
Bill Gates says unchecked AI could ‘cause a billion deaths’ in call for regulation
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist speaks with NBC’s Kristen Welker in interview airing on Sunday
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Utopia is impossible, but if you don’t believe in the ability to attain something better, you will inevitably end up in a dystopia. Because dystopia is quite possible". Margaret Atwood
theguardian.com
‘Birdwatching is close to rapture’: Margaret Atwood on why she has given C$1m to avian research
Award-winning novelist celebrates late partner’s love of birds with gift to establish the Graeme Gibson chair in avian biology
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Don't look up, for real. "Or else...."
cbc.ca
Some TV meteorologists want to talk about climate change. Not everyone wants to hear it | CBC Radio
Broadcast meteorologists usually talk about the weather, but as the planet warms, many weather presenters feel they must talk about climate change. It can be a tough balancing act — and it can have pr...
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump and Marco Rubio are accelerating plans for a possible military invasion of #Cuba around or after the mid-terms.
reddit.com
From the Full_news community on Reddit: Leaked Army plans show another military invasion likely by end of year: report
Explore this post and more from the Full_news community
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mark Carney is going after his own party's MPs for supporting a bill that would prevent Canadian weapons from ending up in Israel's hands and being used to kill Palestinians. Yup, Carney does all of this while reading his talking points on sovereignty and the "rules-based" world order. BS.
cbc.ca
Liberal MP says he was demoted for supporting NDP bill targeting arms export controls | CBC News
Charlottetown MP Sean Casey says he was removed from his position as parliamentary secretary to the minister of veterans affairs because he voted against the government and supported an NDP private me...
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
¿Y Maduro? Para Delcy Rodríguez que se pudra en una celda imperial. www.diario-red.com/articulo/ame...
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And yet, the Guatemalan government of Bernardo Arévalo is doing absolutely everything it can to ignore the barbaric treatment of Guatemalan migrants, cozy up to the Trump administration and strike as many "deals" with the US as he can squeeze into his remaining one year in office. Shameful.
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For all those who still harbor the illusion of some deep difference between Democratic and Republican elites. Ultimately, they both defend the same project.
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Few people speak to power as clearly and as compellingly as Daniel Levy. Listen to him. #FreePalestine
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Solidarity with the Palestinian people! And solidarity also with all those courageous activists protesting the presence of war criminal Netanyahu at UNGA and were unjustly arrested by the NYPD. Honestly, NYC should've told the NYPD NOT to arrest anyone protesting against genocide! @jvp.bsky.social
democracynow.org
“Stop Arming Israel”: 100+ Arrested at Jewish Voice for Peace Sit-In Outside Netanyahu U.N. Speech
Over 100 protesters were arrested near the United Nations in New York on Thursday ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the General Assembly. The sit-in, organized by Jewish V...
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When there is a fundamental, structural, class contradiction and metabolic rupture at the heart of the climate crisis (hence Capitalocene, not Anthropocene), bringing together bankers and NGOs, CEOs and advocates will not move us beyond pale forms of green capitalism and feel-good initiatives.
nationalobserver.com
Experts, advocates and industry gather in Toronto to talk climate resilience
The groups were brought together for the Adaptation Canada 2026 conference in Toronto — the third such gathering since 2016.
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Seth Klein's @sethdklein.bsky.social argument about the "new climate denialism" raises good points. But it still falls short of what's going with state-capitalist elites. Žižek captures it rather well: THEY KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY'RE DOING (destroying the planet), BUT THEY CONTINUE TO DO IT.
nationalobserver.com
Is Mark Carney a climate denier?
This new form of denialism has our political leaders assuring us they understand and accept the warnings about climate change — but they are in denial about what this scientific reality means for poli...
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Why are extreme neofascist movements cropping up everywhere in rich countries and elsewhere? Well, just in the US, less than half of the entire population read a book in 2025! No wonder the ideologue of the extreme right, Curtis Yarvin, calls the death of democratic reason a "dark enlightenment".
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Brazil has banned paraquat citing the risk of Parkinson’s and concerns that the chemical may be mutagenic, meaning it could cause permanent mutations in DNA. In Canada, Syngenta discontinued the registration of its paraquat product, Gramoxone, in 2023, so it's no longer available in the country.
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#Brasileiros, é hora de dar um tapa duro e frio em Trump e rejeitar Bolsonaro e sua gangue de criminosos corporativos e neoliberais. Cada voto em #Lula é um voto pela independência e pelo destino do #Brasil numa era de crise social e colapso climático.
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There are murderers and then there are psychopathic killers. The latter include those psychos that think a mass murder is the path to redemption or a genocide is exactly the "opposite of a genocide", i.e. it's the path to a better life. This includes war criminals Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, Smotrich, etc.
theguardian.com
Netanyahu calls Israel’s war in Gaza ‘opposite of genocide’ in UN speech
Israeli PM attacks critics and calls New York mayor Zohran Mamdani ‘antisemitic’ in inflammatory address
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Let the whole world sing songs of freedom for #Palestine! Sheeran should be forgotten and his spinelessness and commercialism widely condemned. Macklemore, on the other hand, is going straight into the hearts and minds of all people who want an end to the genocide and dream of a free Palestine.
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
By arming Ukraine to the teeth, powerful European countries are ganging up against Russia. And they're doing this after decades of NATO expansionism towards the very borders of Russia. Now they have the gull to say that "Russia could attack a NATO country within months". No limit to their hypocrisy.
theguardian.com
Russia could attack a Nato country within months, Danish intelligence says
Warning comes hours after Poland says fire at Starlink satellite station was ‘act of sabotage’
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is Mark Carney's version of the One Big Beautiful Bill. You see, Carney's main, if not biggest, beef with MAGATrumpism is tariffs. Otherwise, he's copying everything: from migration policies to absolute neoliberalism and dismantling of climate policies. But he's lubing it all with maple syrup.
nationalobserver.com
Carney's sweeping new bill sparks backlash over environmental rollbacks
The Liberal government’s proposed Building Canada Strong Act is facing pushback from political, environmental and labour groups. The bill aims to amend several laws to fast-track projects deemed in 't...
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Only if #Toronto had a candidate like Mamdani would it be worth my while to cast a vote in city elections.
nationalobserver.com
Toronto mayoral candidates debate housing, transit and data centres
Incumbent Mayor Olivia Chow defended her record on housing and fiscal policy against challenger Brad Bradford, while Chris Alexander questioned Bradford on potential privatization plans.
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Shows how the US considers Canada a mere colony. People in Canada who haven't understood this basic fact of living nextdoor to a giant warthog are either incredibly naive or stupid. But the CBC occupies a special place since it's been drilling into the public the "close relationship" for decades.
cbc.ca
ANALYSIS | Trump loves Chinese trade — as long as it's with the U.S. | CBC News
American officials have scolded Canada for making a deal with China. But the numbers show the U.S. does vastly more business with China than Canada would possibly dream of.
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Si la «Marea Rosada» hubiera realmente cambiando relaciones estructurales profundas así como los procesos hegemónicos en Latinoamérica, hoy no estaríamos viendo restauraciones neoliberales y la misma injerencia imperial por toda la región. Pero se trató de asistencialismo y extractivismo de Estado.
diario-red.com
Rodrigo Paz y Marco Rubio acuerdan reformar legislación de energía y minería en Bolivia
La reunión entre Paz y Rubio en la ONU no fue un gesto protocolar, sino la señal de que ambos gobiernos apuestan por una relación estratégica que profundiza ...
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
El retorno de los vampiros a Venezuela.
diario-red.com
El FMI abrirá una oficina en Caracas en 2027; en la ONU Trump alardea del ataque a Venezuela y secuestro de Maduro
La presidenta encargada de Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, se reunió este lunes 21 con los directivos del Fondo Monetario Internacional, el Banco Mundial  y...
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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Milei habla ante la Asamblea General de Naciones Unidas como buen perro faldero de Trump. Y suena tan estúpido como su amo.
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