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Thomas Graham

@thomas-graham.bsky.social
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Journalist in Mexico, and often Bolivia ✍️ The Guardian, The Economist, the FT and The Observer www.thomasajgraham.com

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The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Maduro’s successor cements her power as Venezuelans wait for change Four months after the US removed the authoritarian leader, Delcy Rodríguez oversees a protectorate for foreign investors while repression continues, report Thomas Graham and Ivanna Laura bit.ly/3QNzEV1
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Maduro's successor cements her power as Venezuelans wait ...
Four months after the US removed the authoritarian leader, Delcy Rodríguez oversees a protectorate for foreign investors while repression continues
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Thomas Graham @thomas-graham.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The Trump admin decapitated Maduro's regime on Saturday and now wants US oil majors to charge in and start drilling in Venezuela. But the companies themselves don't seem too keen on the nation building role Trump has in mind for them. For @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/interna...
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US action in Venezuela fails to budge oil markets
Analysts dismiss as ‘nothing burger’ any expectation of near-term profits
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Thomas Graham @thomas-graham.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The Trump admin decapitated Maduro's regime on Saturday and now wants US oil majors to charge in and start drilling in Venezuela. But the companies themselves don't seem too keen on the nation building role Trump has in mind for them. For @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/interna...
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US action in Venezuela fails to budge oil markets
Analysts dismiss as ‘nothing burger’ any expectation of near-term profits
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The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Trinidad and Tobago stakes its future on a Trump triumph in the Caribbean bit.ly/3YDTVwT
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Trinidad and Tobago stakes its future on a Trump triumph ...
The island nation insists it is only interested in fighting drug trafficking, not regime change in neighbouring Venezuela, as the US military is given access to its airports
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Jonny Wrate @evodzoni.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
NEW INVESTIGATION: While the Trump Administration threatens military action in Venezuela and Mexico over drug trafficking, the US has left loopholes wide open allowing traffickers to obtain private jets in the US, completely anonymously, for flying cocaine across LatAm www.occrp.org/en/project/n...
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Trail of Drug-Linked Planes Leads Back to California Seller – and U.S. Aviation Regulatory ‘Blind Spot’
OCCRP reviewed the sales of 30 planes by Lance Zane Ricotta’s companies since 2014, and found evidence that 11 of them were seized, investigated, or found abroad in suspected or confirmed drug cases. ...
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The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
The Observer is no longer just a Sunday paper; you can now get a little bit of Sunday every day. Our new website and app are live, and we’re publishing daily for the first time in 233 years. Sign up today: bit.ly/3M6Okw3 Download our app here: bit.ly/4oE3ZAR
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Rodrigo Paz, Bolivia’s president-elect, will face a dire economic crisis and a fragmented political system, @thomas-graham.bsky.social writes.
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Bolivia Voted for Change. Can Its New Centrist President Deliver?
Rodrigo Paz, Bolivia’s president-elect, will face a dire economic crisis and a fragmented political system.
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Thomas Graham @thomas-graham.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Before they even take office, Bolivia's future VP is already warning Rodrigo Paz not to stray from the people who put them - or rather him - in power. “Many people supported the people's ticket because they believed in Captain Lara, and I will not let those people down." larazon.bo/nacional/202...
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A Reader of the FT @a-reader-ft.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Centrist Rodrigo Paz wins Bolivia’s presidential election-The election ends a long period in power for the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), which governed for all but one of the past 20 years, first under the charismatic… www.ft.com/content/8de3... @thomas-graham.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
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Centrist Rodrigo Paz wins Bolivia’s presidential election
Son of former leader inherits deep economic crisis
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Thomas Graham @thomas-graham.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
China is building a "network of clean energy industries on the Tibetan Plateau, the world’s highest ... to harness the region’s bright sunshine, cold temperatures and sky-touching altitude to provide low-cost, renewable energy." Bolivia should too. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/b...
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Why China Built 162 Square Miles of Solar Panels on the World’s Highest Plateau
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Thomas Graham @thomas-graham.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
The Rupert Cornwell Prize for young foreign correspondents is open for applications. A few years back it allowed me to spend a summer reporting from Ceuta and Melilla, the Spanish North African enclaves. Feel free to get in touch with any questions. www.the-independent.com/news/media/r...
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Rupert Cornwell Award: £5,000 bursary for budding foreign correspondents
The award honours the memory of Rupert Cornwell, one of The Independent’s most distinguished journalists
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A Reader of the FT @a-reader-ft.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Bolivia divided in election run-up as ruling party implodes—Bolivia’s next president will have to take immediate measures to address the economic crisis. The government’s foreign exchange reserves all but ran out in March 2023 www.ft.com/content/90ea... @thomas-graham.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
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Bolivia divided in election run-up as ruling party implodes
Leftwing government’s infighting and deepening economic crisis boost opposition candidates
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
In all likelihood, Bolivia's long-ruling MAS party will cease to exist as a political force after Sunday's presidential election. It's a pretty disorienting development, but not unexpected after the disarray of the past few years. Great backgrounder here by @thomas-graham.bsky.social.
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MAS’ Implosion Has Blown Bolivia’s Presidential Election Wide Open
The Arce-Morales feud has effectively split Bolivia’s long-dominant MAS party, opening the door for the opposition in August’s presidential election.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
The Arce-Morales feud has effectively split Bolivia’s long-dominant MAS party, opening the door for the opposition in August’s presidential election, @thomas-graham.bsky.social writes.
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MAS’ Implosion Has Blown Bolivia’s Presidential Election Wide Open
The Arce-Morales feud has effectively split Bolivia’s long-dominant MAS party, opening the door for the opposition in August’s presidential election.
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Tom Phillips @tomphillips.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Out tomorrow: the first episodes of our six-part podcast series about Dom and Bruno and the Amazon. Listen wherever you get your podcasts www.theguardian.com/technology/a...
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Coming soon: Missing in the Amazon – a new Guardian investigative series
In one of the most remote corners of the Amazon jungle, a journalist and an indigenous defender disappear without a trace. Missing in the Amazon – our new six-part investigative podcast series uncover...
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Thomas Graham @thomas-graham.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Ruth López, a senior figure at Cristosal, the most important human rights organisation in El Salvador, was arrested by the government last night.
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Thomas Graham @thomas-graham.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
More big news from Bolivia. Luis Arce, the current president who's been polling awfully, has withdrawn his candidacy for August's election That leaves the MAS candidacy open. Note that Andrónico Rodríguez is still a member of the MAS and is yet to say who he will run for larazon.bo/nacional/202...
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Arce declina su candidatura a las elecciones generales
El presidente Luis Arce anunció este martes que baja su candidatura presidencial de cara a las elecciones generales del 17 de agosto y aboga por la unidad. «Hoy doy a conocer al pueblo boliviano con a...
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Thomas Graham @thomas-graham.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
🚨 British + UK-based correspondents under 30 🚨 You've got until May 26th to apply for the Richard Beeston Bursary, which offers £6,000 to report a story for @thetimes.com anywhere in the world. richardbeestonbursary.com
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Richard Beeston Bursary - Win the opportunity of a fellowship with The Times Newspaper
This award of £6,000 is for an aspiring British or UK-based foreign correspondent to spend six weeks abroad, researching and reporting on a foreign news story, in association with The Times newspaper....
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Thomas Graham @thomas-graham.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Big news in Bolivia, where Andrónico Rodríguez, president of the senate and VP of the six tropics coca growers federation, says he will be a candidate in August's election. That means three will be going for the MAS vote: Arce, Morales and now Rodríguez. larazon.bo/nacional/202...
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Andrónico mueve el tablero electoral, acepta ser candidato
"Desde acá, queridos hermanos y hermanas, quiero expresar en respuesta a este pedido: acepto", dijo el senador Andrónico Rodríguez en Oruro.
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Thomas Graham @thomas-graham.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
🚨 British + UK-based correspondents under 30 🚨 You've got until May 26th to apply for the Richard Beeston Bursary, which offers £6,000 to report a story for @thetimes.com anywhere in the world. richardbeestonbursary.com
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Richard Beeston Bursary - Win the opportunity of a fellowship with The Times Newspaper
This award of £6,000 is for an aspiring British or UK-based foreign correspondent to spend six weeks abroad, researching and reporting on a foreign news story, in association with The Times newspaper....
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Thomas Graham @thomas-graham.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Evo Morales's deal with Frente Para la Victoria to run in Bolivia's forthcoming elections seems to have broken down. Morales already left the MAS, having lost control of it. There are not many siglas left that he could make a deal to run for. la-razon.com/nacional/202...
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FPV anuncia que ‘ya no va’ el acuerdo con Evo Morales para las elecciones generales - La Razón
FPV anuncia que ‘ya no va’ el acuerdo con Evo Morales para las elecciones generales
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Thomas Graham @thomas-graham.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
This week the organisers of Fyre festival, the notorious disaster that became a Netflix doc, announced that Fyre 2 would take place on Isla Mujeres, Mexico. This was news to the local government... www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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Alarms raised over legitimacy of Fyre festival 2: ‘An event that does not exist’
After the announcement of a follow-up festival in Mexico, tourism and local officials have denied any knowledge of its existence
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Thomas Graham @thomas-graham.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
This week the organisers of Fyre festival, the notorious disaster that became a Netflix doc, announced that Fyre 2 would take place on Isla Mujeres, Mexico. This was news to the local government... www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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Alarms raised over legitimacy of Fyre festival 2: ‘An event that does not exist’
After the announcement of a follow-up festival in Mexico, tourism and local officials have denied any knowledge of its existence
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Ann Louise Deslandes @anndlandes.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Dispatch from Chiapas and thoughts on not fetishizing the Mexican state. www.thetroubledregion.com/stopping-tra...
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Stopping traffic, and the state
Dear friends, Early this morning (Saturday 22 February), thousands from the Zapatista communities of the Lacandon jungle took to the highways that link the towns of Palenque, Comitán, San Cristóbal...
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Caroline Tracey @cetracey.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
For @theborderchronicle.bsky.social, I wrote the first installment in a series about the controversial energy development plan called Plan Sonora: www.theborderchronicle.com/p/what-is-pl...
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What Is Plan Sonora?
How the border state became the center of Mexico’s ambitious renewable-energy plan.
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Thomas Graham @thomas-graham.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The remains of Mexican journalist Jesús Alberto Camacho Rodríguez were just identified after lying in a morgue for three years. It's estimated that more than 70,000 other unidentified bodies currently sit in Mexico's morgues. elpais.com/mexico/2025-...
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El cadáver del periodista desaparecido Jesús Alberto Camacho llevaba tres años en una morgue sin identificar
Las autoridades dicen que el reportero no tenía una denuncia por desaparición y se estima que hay más de 70.000 cadáveres sin identificar en las morgues del país
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Tom Phillips @tomphillips.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
"A British journalist has been missing in Brazil for 11 days, a foreign correspondents’ association in the country said on Tuesday, urging authorities to step up their search efforts," writes @tiagorogero.com www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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British journalist missing in Brazil for 11 days
Foreign correspondents’ association urges authorities to step up search for Charlotte Alice Peet, 32
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Thomas Graham @thomas-graham.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
In the middle of Bolivia’s worst fire season, I went with @umbamoxos.bsky.social to the scorched plains on edge of the Amazon, where archaeologists are drilling into the deep history of the mysterious forest islands. For @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/world/latin-...
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In search of the ancient Amazonians who left only eerie forest islands
In Llanos de Moxos, an expanse of floodplains fringing the Bolivian rainforest, strange clumps of trees offer clues about a lost civilisation
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Umberto Lombardo @umbamoxos.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
🧪 Report of @thomas-graham.bsky.social about our 2024 field work just published in @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/world/latin-... @demodrivers.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
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In search of the ancient Amazonians who left only eerie forest islands
In Llanos de Moxos, an expanse of floodplains fringing the Bolivian rainforest, strange clumps of trees offer clues about a lost civilisation
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Thomas Graham @thomas-graham.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
In the middle of Bolivia’s worst fire season, I went with @umbamoxos.bsky.social to the scorched plains on edge of the Amazon, where archaeologists are drilling into the deep history of the mysterious forest islands. For @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/world/latin-...
thetimes.com
In search of the ancient Amazonians who left only eerie forest islands
In Llanos de Moxos, an expanse of floodplains fringing the Bolivian rainforest, strange clumps of trees offer clues about a lost civilisation
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
By me: Exonerated environmental defenders to face murder retrial in El Salvador www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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Exonerated environmental defenders to face murder retrial in El Salvador
Critics decry ‘politically motivated’ decision to revisit civil war-era charges against leaders of anti-mining campaign
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Thomas Graham @thomas-graham.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Reflections of a pre-first world war Spanish correspondent on the English character. So many good lines @swajones.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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‘Deep down, all Englishmen are policemen’: a Spanish correspondent’s view of life in Edwardian London
The journalist and adventurer Julio Camba wrote exquisite sketches about the strange habits of the English
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Umberto Lombardo @umbamoxos.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
What a week. Some hardcore geomorphology just published in QSR www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Following our archaeological paper in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... In this QSR, we reconstructed the timing of 3 neotectonic events in the Bolivian Amazon. Enjoy and share 🧪
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Landscape evolution of the Bolivian Amazon controlled by uplift events dated 13,000, 10,000 and 6000 cal yr BP
The Llanos de Moxos in the Bolivian Amazon, the second largest South American wetland, hosts many endemic species and a rich archaeological record tha…
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Thomas Graham @thomas-graham.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
How many people lived in the Amazon before 1492? It’s one of the great questions of pre-Columbian archaeology. And it turns out some pretty intensive maize farming was happening in the Amazon basin I cover the latest from @umbamoxos.bsky.social for @economist.com www.economist.com/science-and-...
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A sophisticated civilisation once flourished in the Amazon basin
How the Casarabe died out remains a mystery
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 29/01/2025
This is the first time I've seen the US government return citizens of a country outside the Americas into #Mexico. That didn't even happen during Title 42. President Sheinbaum appears to have agreed to a lot.
Chief Patrol Agent - Tucson Sector @USBPChiefTCA on Twitter: 

5 illegal aliens from Bangladesh, recently featured in the media, surrendered to Tucson Station agents, and have since been removed to Mexico. Whether you surrender or not, you will not be released into the United States.
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Thomas Graham @thomas-graham.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
How many people lived in the Amazon before 1492? It’s one of the great questions of pre-Columbian archaeology. And it turns out some pretty intensive maize farming was happening in the Amazon basin I cover the latest from @umbamoxos.bsky.social for @economist.com www.economist.com/science-and-...
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A sophisticated civilisation once flourished in the Amazon basin
How the Casarabe died out remains a mystery
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Thomas Graham @thomas-graham.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Mexican film-makers have put out Johanne Sacreblu, a parody of "trans gangster musical" Emilia Pérez, which is poised to win a hatful of Oscars despite going down... pretty badly in Mexico itself www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...
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Mexicans make Emilia Pérez parody poking fun at French stereotypes
Spoof fires back at supposed inauthenticity of Oscar-tipped screen musical with a song-and-dance tale of boulangeries at war
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Thomas Graham @thomas-graham.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
The Mexican govt has not published national data on drug use since 2016/17. It finally did a survey in 2024, but now says it was botched and needs to be redone. By the time it finally appears, data on drug use in Mexico might be 10 years out of date. www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2025...
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Falla la encuesta de salud mental y adicciones; se rehará: Ssa
Conahcyt y Conasama la realizaron entre octubre de 2023 y mayo de 2024; por primera vez, incluyó a personas de 12 a 75 años.
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Thomas Graham @thomas-graham.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
US asylum seekers in despair after Trump cancels CBP One app: ‘start from zero again’ The story from across Mexico, with border reporting from @ninalakhani.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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US asylum seekers in despair after Trump cancels CBP One app: ‘start from zero again’
After 30,000 appointments to apply for asylum were cancelled, the fragile calm at the US-Mexico border is at risk
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Tom Cartwright @tomcartwright.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
From CBP One web site. It is over. Future outstanding appointments about 30,000 are being cancelled. People are receiving those email now. This afternoon presentations had been rescheduled to Feb 9 last Friday. Now to be crushed. At least this morning people were allows to present.
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Thomas Graham @thomas-graham.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Last week I was in Ciudad Juárez to see what’s being done to prepare for potential mass deportations. The short answer: not much, yet.
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Thomas Graham @thomas-graham.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
The price of gold rose 27% last year, hitting a record high. Banks and refiners consulted by the FT expect it to rise 7% over this year, to about $2,800 per ounce. Bad news for the environment and security panorama in South America. www.ft.com/content/9fa9...
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Gold set to rally further this year, say Wall Street banks
Yellow metal expected to continue to benefit from buying by global central banks
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
There are few popular-science outlets that would be very interested in articles about gene regulation, and yet it's at the centre of how life works. What does get said about it is often out of date (the lac operon is not representative of eukaryotes, for example). More on this in the pipeline.
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Thomas Graham @thomas-graham.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Referring to the accusations of statutory rape against Evo Morales, Luis Arce, who was his finance minister for many years, says "we all knew" and "it was an open secret". www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2024...
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“El gran culpable de la crisis en Bolivia es Evo Morales”
En entrevista con La Jornada, el presidente Luis Arce asegura que ya existe un plan para hacer reflotar la economía.
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Thomas Graham @thomas-graham.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Referring to the accusations of statutory rape against Evo Morales, Luis Arce, who was his finance minister for many years, says "we all knew" and "it was an open secret". www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2024...
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“El gran culpable de la crisis en Bolivia es Evo Morales”
En entrevista con La Jornada, el presidente Luis Arce asegura que ya existe un plan para hacer reflotar la economía.
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Thomas Graham @thomas-graham.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Almost 100 police arrested on suspicion of collaborating with organised crime in the municipality of Comitán, in Chiapas. elpais.com/mexico/2024-...
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La detención de 92 policías evidencia la infiltración del crimen organizado en Chiapas
Un operativo del comando de las fuerzas de seguridad instaurado por el nuevo gobernador, Eduardo Ramírez, arresta a 135 personas entre agentes y civiles
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Max de Haldevang @max-d-reporter.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
NEW: I spent months digging into a pattern of Indigenous Mexicans being murdered, dissapeared & abducted by narcos when opposing mines owned by NYSE-listed mining @Ternium The reason, one narco told cops: "They were fucking with the mines" /1 www.occrp.org/en/feature/b...
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Blood and Ore: Mexican Cartel Violence Silences Mine Opponents
The abduction of a Mexican community activist who campaigned against an iron ore mine owned by New York-listed Ternium has shone a light on how local cartels benefit from the presence of mining compan...
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Thomas Graham @thomas-graham.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Three months of war in the Sinaloa Cartel have left 1000+ dead or disappeared, and a city in a kind of humanitarian crisis. Culiacán is trying to return to normality – but is frequently reminded it lives at the whim of organised crime. 📸 by Jesús Verdugo www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘Mother of all battles’: terror for Mexicans as war rages inside Sinaloa cartel
Violence shows few signs of ending after three months of war between rival factions that have left more than a thousand dead or disappeared
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Thomas Graham @thomas-graham.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Three months of war in the Sinaloa Cartel have left 1000+ dead or disappeared, and a city in a kind of humanitarian crisis. Culiacán is trying to return to normality – but is frequently reminded it lives at the whim of organised crime. 📸 by Jesús Verdugo www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘Mother of all battles’: terror for Mexicans as war rages inside Sinaloa cartel
Violence shows few signs of ending after three months of war between rival factions that have left more than a thousand dead or disappeared
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Thomas Graham @thomas-graham.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Maximiliano Dávila -- Bolivia's former top anti-narcotics official who has been charged with drug trafficking -- has been extradited to the US. Dávila served under both Evo Morales and Luis Arce. la-razon.com/nacional/202...
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Maximiliano Dávila es extraditado a Estados Unidos - La Razón
Maximiliano Dávila es extraditado a Estados Unidos
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