Roller-coaster vote count as leftist candidate Roberto Sánchez inches into run-off (for now) Sánchez has moved up from sixth to 2nd place as rural vote finally counted in Peru. Aliaga declares "fraud" LATEST for PWS

With almost 90% of the vote counted in Peru, Aliaga and Palomino are in a statistical tie for 2nd place Fujimori: 2,546,581 Aliaga: 1,805,759 Palomino: 1,788,572 Nieto: 1,680,124 Crazy

The people using the "low IQ" phrase in arguments are so funny to me Because they were really went and said "we need a longer phrase for 'dumb' that incorporates all of the important advances of race science in the 19th century " 😅

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so, it seems DHS is "sin flattening" so as to make all crimes equate to "terrorism," thereby expanding DHS' power

After a first round, Peru likely to feature two ultra-right candidates for the Presidency Keiko Fujimori and Rafael Lopez Aliaga lead the quick count, but balloting extended at some Lima centers after thousands turned away LATEST for PWS

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After a first round, Peru likely to feature two ultra-right candidates for the Presidency Keiko Fujimori and Rafael Lopez Aliaga lead the quick count, but balloting extended at some Lima centers after thousands turned away LATEST for PWS

With 33% of the vote counted in Peru: Rafael López-Aliaga holds a thin advantage over Keiko Fujimori. Center liberal Ricardo Belmont currently in a distant 4th place López-Aliaga: 1,117, 996 Fujimori: 1,089,866 Nieto: 911,858 Belmont: 581,300

Peru is funny, cause the guy who calls himself "the Bolsonaro of Peru" and has adopted the nickname of Porky the Pig, is described as "center-right" because he is flanked from the right by an outright dictator apologist and daughter of a genocidal maniac

Pro tip on covering LATAM elections: Exit polls in are almost always insanely wrong here 😅 #Peru

DHS shot another person last week. As always, they claim the victim "weaponized their vehicle" to attack agents That has often proven to be a lie, much like footage in Minneapolis showed last week in their shooting of Venezuelan man Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis (link below)

DHS shot another person last week. As always, they claim the victim "weaponized their vehicle" to attack agents That has often proven to be a lie, much like footage in Minneapolis showed last week in their shooting of Venezuelan man Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis (link below)

Oppression and resistance: the DHS Diaries PWS weekly on ICE, Border Patrol, and the brave communities , organizations, and individuals resisting their fascist policies LATEST for PWS

Oppression and resistance: the DHS Diaries PWS weekly on ICE, Border Patrol, and the brave communities , organizations, and individuals resisting their fascist policies LATEST for PWS

Mining in LATAM: Is it even possible to do ethically? Extraction is a magnet for criminal activity, and an environmental disaster. Do the cons outweigh the benefits? LATEST podcast for Pirate Wire Radio

Mining in LATAM: Is it even possible to do ethically? Extraction is a magnet for criminal activity, and an environmental disaster. Do the cons outweigh the benefits? LATEST podcast for Pirate Wire Radio

For the last 6 months we have watched ordinary people put their lives at risk for their neighbors while the powerful retreat in cowardice. Just regular folks pummeled with chemical weapons and shot dead in the streets fighting for what's right and good. There are heroes all around you. Find them

Relived that at least immediately, like, tomorrow, I wont be living in a nuclear wasteland

Only published a few hours ago and thisnis already ageing extremely well

Authoritarianism is rising across the Americas: it may be here to stay From Quito to Minneapolis, Santiago to Jalisco, institutions are failing us. Perhaps the solution needs to come from somewhere else LATEST for PWS

“Militarized actions in Colombia, for decades, have failed to stop the growth of cocaine production or the growth of non-state armed groups. They have, however, resulted in security forces killing thousands of innocent people, and then claiming those killed were rebel fighters.”

Authoritarianism is rising across the Americas: it may be here to stay From Quito to Minneapolis, Santiago to Jalisco, institutions are failing us. Perhaps the solution needs to come from somewhere else LATEST for PWS

The Big Stories to watch this week in LATAM Cuba prisoner release, US drops sanctions on Delcy, and Peru heads to elect their 5th president in as many years LATEST for PWS

The Big Stories to watch this week in LATAM Cuba prisoner release, US drops sanctions on Delcy, and Peru heads to elect their 5th president in as many years LATEST for PWS

And capys survive a other year of Lent. Happy Easter "Why the Pope declared war on capybaras"

Colombian leftist party is *broadly* ahead in the first round of presidential elections, putting Ivan Cepeda in a strong position even as the right finally starts to consolidate behind a front-runner Meanwhile Petro approval rating highest of his presidency (Source below)

The US is about to be neck-deep in blood gold in Venezuela A first shipment of $100 million in gold bars almost certainly contained reserves mined with "efective slavery" by criminal armed groups

Blood gold theft by the burglar-in-chief.

The US is about to be neck-deep in blood gold in Venezuela A first shipment of $100 million in gold bars almost certainly contained reserves mined with "efective slavery" by criminal armed groups

“All of this is to say, any company operating in Venezuela will be directly financing armed groups that the US government considers terrorist organizations.” Fascinating explanation on what might come next for US extraction in Venezuela

The US wants Venezuelan blood gold, but the price is likely much higher than they think A "repatriation" of $100 million gold to the US almost certainly contained deposits mined via "child labor, torture, and effective slavery" LATEST for PWS

The US wants Venezuelan blood gold, but the price is likely much higher than they think A "repatriation" of $100 million gold to the US almost certainly contained deposits mined via "child labor, torture, and effective slavery" LATEST for PWS

It's wild how in just two decades the internet turned like 90% of the world into tedious scolds

100% chance at least most of this was mined in areas controlled by ELN, which uses child labor, has horrifically dangerous work conditions, and indenture that the UN has called "effective slavery" That gold is then laundered into "legal" markets

FARC dissident group EMC announces humanitarian organizations and the UN will no longer be able to operate in zones they control These groups have long been considered nuetral parties in Colombian conflicts, even at the height of the civil war

On the bright side, If mildly inconveniencing middle class people in the US who are otherwise unnaffected by ICE is what finally gets them to give a shit, I say we just keep this shit up

It's important to realize that fentanyl lies are the skeleton key Trump used to unlock all sorts of "emergency" powers during his 1st year back in office. Without them, no tariff wars, no drug boat attacks, no invasion of VZ, no strangling Cuba by oil blockade. All made possible by #DrugWarLies!🧵

Great podcast by @murosinvisibles.bsky.social on the ridiculous charges Trump is trying to fabricate against President Petro (probably in an attempt to frighten him with the Maduro example). They're also trying to invent a fentanyl connection even though South American countries aren't involved!

The Big Stories to watch this week in LATAM Blackouts, protests and an aid flotilla in Cuba, more details in DEA case against Petro, and the youngest person to die yet in DHS custody leaves Mexico asking questions LATEST for PWS

"WITCH WILL CONTINUE" 🧙‍♀️ US Department of State recruiting Etsy witches to wage war in Iran apparently

The Big Stories to watch this week in LATAM Blackouts, protests and an aid flotilla in Cuba, more details in DEA case against Petro, and the youngest person to die yet in DHS custody leaves Mexico asking questions LATEST for PWS