Mario Ríos Montt, Bishop and Brother of Genocidal General, Dies at 94 - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/w...

Federal immigration court judge embarks on odyssey to Central America www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

"It's like Russian roulette, it's a nightmare," his father said. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Meet the children left without parents under El Salvador’s emergency decree | Child Rights News | Al Jazeera www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...

Over 33,000 people arrested in Bukele’s crackdown were not listed as gang members | International | EL PAÍS English english.elpais.com/internationa...

In Arévalo’s Guatemala, It’s Not “Spring” Quite Yet americasquarterly.org/article/in-a...

The Joy of Learning www.aacu.org/liberaleduca...

The Scrappy Mayor Showing Democrats How It’s Done - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/o...

Opinion | The United States Is No Longer the Leader of the Free World - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/o...

Trump’s Deportation Push Takes an Economic Toll on Mixed-Status Families - WSJ www.wsj.com/articles/tru...

Many are infirm, including Ricardo Pérez, 67, who said he was pushed across the U.S. border by immigration agents in a wheelchair, or 59-year-old Luis René Lemus, who suffers from Parkinson’s and schizophrenia and has struggled to procure needed medication in Mexico. www.latimes.com/world-nation...

The Human Cost of Nayib Bukele’s Permanent State of Emergency cristosal.substack.com/p/the-human-...

The Latin American Piece of the Iran Puzzle: What does a bombing in Argentina have to do with the Iran war? mikelasusa.substack.com/p/the-latin-...

Who knew that 2024 was a referendum on making Iran great again.

Somehow just seeing this now. A quick thread on some (maybe) historical parallels. Breakfast cereal first starting being embraced in the US around the same time (and often via the same proponents of) that vegetarianism takes on a particular hypermasculine form at the end of the 19th century. (1/x)

El Salvador’s attorney general freezes a money‑laundering investigation into Venezuelan oil funds that implicates Nayib Bukele | International | EL PAÍS English english.elpais.com/internationa...

"The death of a breadwinner in the U.S. is an emotional loss, but also an economic one. Miguel understood his parents’ wishes and paid for his repatriation while he was still alive. “He said, ‘when I die, I’ll leave all the expenses paid.’ And so it was" english.elpais.com/internationa...

Failed American dream: Deportees restart their lives in Guatemala • FRANCE 24 English - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNIC...

The country that beat its Trump | Vox www.vox.com/politics/479...

Guatemala’s State of Emergency Will Test Its Democracy www.americasquarterly.org/article/guat...

The Minneapolis Uprising - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Arévalo Begins Third Year under State of Siege amid Clashes with 18th Street | El Faro | El primer périodico digital latinoamericano beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...

Arévalo Accuses 18th Street Gang of Assassination Plot during 2023 Campaign | El Faro | El primer périodico digital latinoamericano #guatemala beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...

What to watch in Guatemala’s year of institutional reset - Atlantic Council www.atlanticcouncil.org/dispatches/w...

Opinion | I’ve Covered Police Abuse for 20 Years. What ICE Is Doing Is Different. - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...

Guatemala State of Emergency - January 2026 open.substack.com/pub/boz/p/gu...

"ICE 101" — How Trump changed ICE and CBP into a fascist secret police www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...

Trump’s Year of Anarchy | Foreign Affairs www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

In the last 18 days alone: - Two men in ICE custody have killed themselves (jails are supposed to protect against this) - Two men died of cardiac-related issues - One man was reportedly choked to death by a guard - One man died of fentanyl withdrawal (family question the medical care provided)

Iran-Contra level craziness. We’re doing what?

»...the danger is [that] the flood of Automatenwissenschaft becomes a kind of scholarly dark matter that exists to pad CVs and satisfy bureaucratic metrics, but which no one actually reads or relies upon. This is already true to some extent, but AI greatly accelerates the process.«

El Salvador Risks Becoming a Zone of Silence   | AULA Blog aulablog.net/2026/01/09/e...

"It is, remember, the Venezuelan people who should decide how Venezuela is governed, and by whom. Not the United States. Not a dictatorship. And certainly not some chimera of the two." dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

El Salvador, Again: The United States and its ally incite new levels of international chaos. - Progressive.org progressive.org/magazine/el-...

The US can't treat Venezuela like Panama - New Statesman www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

Opinion | Peace Is Unraveling - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/o...

Trump’s Attack on Venezuela Is Only the Beginning | WPR www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trump-maduro...

US failed to select Batista's replacement, Somoza's replacement. Maybe it will work this time - Maduro sin Maduro: Trump Threatens Venezuela’s New Leader With a Fate Worse Than Maduro’s - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

The Price of American Authoritarianism | Foreign Affairs www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

For Catholics, mass deportations are immoral | National Catholic Reporter www.ncronline.org/opinion/cath...

A Guatemalan immigrant held at Camp East Montana here in El Paso has died. He had been held at the facility since September. At least 25 migrants have died in ICE detention this year.

Not that every article can do everything but the vulnerability and humanity of migrants is totally missing from this. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...

Not at all surprising that @gideonrachman.bsky.social nails it in his reading of the NSS here. "The Trump administration view of 'western civilisation' is based on race, Christianity and nationalism. The European version is a liberal view founded on democracy, human rights and the rule of law ..."

‘A sad, cruel moment’: 58 Florida children leaving US amid parent deportations www.aol.com/articles/sad...

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Trump's corruption, migrants, and stance on Salvadoran MS-13 and multiple drug trafficking pardons - Trump to Pardon JOH, Honduran Ex-Leader Convicted in Drug Case www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...

El Faro | El primer périodico digital latinoamericano beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...

"By any and every measure, in other words, Donald Trump is the most corrupt person to ever sit in the Oval Office. And if the A plot of the second Trump presidency is his authoritarian aspirations, then its B plot is his shameless and pervasive corruption." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...