"Call me 'the Tiger', baby. We want Total War" A week ahead of Colombian presidential elections, an ultra-right advocate of right-wing death squads looks increasingly likely to make it to the run-off LATEST by me for PWS

Journalists in Colombia fear a return to right-wing persecution Abalarso has a history of combining violence with extremist politics, and intimidating media Podcast at PWS

Despite hysterical claims from the right, Bolivian protests are a genuine grassroots revolt against neoliberal policy

Bolivia's uprising goes far beyond Evo The country's ruling party is trying to pin blame on Morales and "narcos." Neither claim is true LATEST for PWS by Joseph Bouchard

More of this energy please

Despite hysterical claims from the right, Bolivian protests are a genuine grassroots revolt against neoliberal policy

Bolivia's uprising goes far beyond Evo The country's ruling party is trying to pin blame on Morales and "narcos." Neither claim is true LATEST for PWS by Joseph Bouchard

Watched the new Punisher movie. Worst dialogue writing I've ever encountered in my life. It's just like 10 minutes of him crying, then 45 mins of him murdering people for extremely vague reasons Never seen a Punisher movie so true to the original source material

Abelardo, who is an open admirer of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, represents a return to “criminalizing opposition" under the guise of security. LATEST podcast at Pirate Wire Radio

PARTISAN The quote is "partisan" as it is from his book about the Spanish civil war, in which some participants didnt want a nation at all

Journalists in Colombia fear a return to right-wing persecution Candidate de la Espriella has a history of combining violence with extremist politics, and intimidating media LATEST podcast at Pirate Wire Radio

Journalists in Colombia fear a return to right-wing persecution Candidate de la Espriella has a history of combining violence with extremist politics, and intimidating media LATEST podcast at Pirate Wire Radio

Sign up for PWS! We are a truly independent media collective of freelancers in LATAM, and beholden to no one As any good pirates should be

Bolivia: Protests aren’t ending any time soon Growing protests in Bolivia have blocked roads across the country and effectively shut down the capital, La Paz. Demonstrators are putting pressure on Bolivia’s right-wing President Rodrigo Paz to resign www.piratewireservices.com/p/the-big-st...

Cuba: blockade tightens as does rhetoric US fuel blockade has depleted critical fuel and food supplies. This week Cuba received the first of 3 humanitarian shipments from China, expected to total 60,000 tons of rice. Meanwhile, DC rhetoric is escalating www.piratewireservices.com/p/the-big-st...

Elections in Colombia The formerly three-way race in Colombia, according to recent polls, has likely come down to a face-off between leftist Senator Ivan Cepeda and ultra-right outsider Abelardo de la Espriella www.piratewireservices.com/p/the-big-st...

Morning! There's a lot of stories to watch this week in LATAM! Elections tighten in Colombia, Cuba received international aid, and Bolivia is on fire (🧵) Our weekly update at PWS has you covered as you drink your morning joe ----> www.piratewireservices.com/p/the-big-st...

Morning! There's a lot of stories to watch this week in LATAM! Elections tighten in Colombia, Cuba received international aid, and Bolivia is on fire (🧵) Our weekly update at PWS has you covered as you drink your morning joe ----> www.piratewireservices.com/p/the-big-st...

The Big Stories to watch this week in LATAM' Elections tighten in Colombia, Cuba received international aid, and Bolivia is on fire LATEST for PWS

"Call me 'the Tiger', baby. We want Total War" A week ahead of Colombian presidential elections, an ultra-right advocate of right-wing death squads looks increasingly likely to make it to the run-off LATEST by me for PWS

BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard has resigned as US President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, according to US media reports citing her resignation letter. 🔴 More on aljazeera.com

Got brought in on a case doing research on asylum cases for a lawyer defending two Venezuelans facing deportation and... Why didnt I ever think to do this before? This is fucking Gods work ✊️

"Michael Foucault described modern power as “panoptic”, meaning, the observed internalize surveillance because they can never be certain when the watcher is present. They become active, if unwilling, participants in the surveillance state without realizing it."

"The Van Was Full" "As a Venezuelan, the anonymous terror imposed by ICE is coldly familiar. I didn't realize how much until I was caught up in an arbitrary public sweep"

It wasn’t a good thing and didn’t solve anything in the past. US has quickly become the leading terrorist organization of the world. It was disgusting then and is so now.

Venezuelan mother dies 10 days after state confirms missing son died in custody

Have Axios always been mouthpieces to launder whatever insane shit the State Department says or is this just the position they have assumed under Trump? (Never read it much before 2025 but this Cuban "drone crisis" piece is hilarious)

Trump has let the CIA off its leash The spy agency is playing a direct role in assassinations, kidnappings, and captures across LATAM: reminding many of its darkest periods LATEST by PWS

You need to read this about what’s going on with the CIA. It’s out of control.

Trump has let the CIA is off its leash The spy agency is playing a direct role in assassinations, kidnappings, and captures across LATAM: reminding many of its darkest periods LATEST for PWS www.piratewireservices.com/p/trump-has-...

New poll (by a slightly right-leaning org) puts Colombia's leftist candidate Ivan Cepeda in a statistical tie with ultra-right wing Abelardo de Espriella Right wing Uribista Paloma Valencia continues to bleed support, likely no longer competitive (1/2 and source below)

"I had believed a little that the United States truly was different than Venezuela — freer somehow, flawed, but striving towards justice." The past tense is killer. Fantastic essay, vivid, clear, and measured in the face of horror.

"I had let myself believe it, because the alternative—that I had exchanged one form of exposure to authoritarianism for another was not a belief I could afford to fully embrace and still get up in the morning."

Very proud to publish this piece by a Venezuelan migrants about being caught up in an ICE raid in Florida On State power, the terror of anonymity, and being stripped of everything, even a voice "The Van was Full" LATEST for PWS

Center-leftish Luis Gilberto Murillo has announced he is withdrawing from the presidential race and declared he is endorsing Ivan Cepeda yesterday Even a few points at this point mean Cepeda could win in the first round We wrote about the dynamic at PWS

Very proud to publish this piece by a Venezuelan migrants about being caught up in an ICE raid in Florida On State power, the terror of anonymity, and being stripped of everything, even a voice "The Van was Full" LATEST for PWS

The School of the Americas is back, baby! To say the last one had a mixed record is an understatement, well, unless you consider "dozens of right-wing death squads across LATAM" to be a positive thing

Colombia’s ELN guerrillas sentence captured prosecutors to 5 years in “revolutionary prison” The forensic investigators were captured last year in Catatumbo while investigating a homicide LATEST for PWS

Colombia’s ELN guerrillas sentence captured prosecutors to 5 years in “revolutionary prison” The forensic investigators were captured last year in Catatumbo while investigating a homicide LATEST for PWS

The coolest thing about this BBC article titled "How US boat strikes are changing drug routes in the Caribbean" is that 2 of the 3 experts they talk to say: "There is no evidence they are" And the 3rd guy, when pressed for details, is like "vibes"😅

Colombia's leftist Presidential candidate now hopes to win in the first round Ivan Cepeda is gaining in the polls, and now stands just a few points from eliminating his right-wing opponents on May 31 LATEST for PWS

Colombia's leftist Presidential candidate now hopes to win in the first round Ivan Cepeda is gaining in the polls, and now stands just a few points from eliminating his right-wing opponents on May 31 LATEST for PWS

Mango rum cocktails and Joshua's magic mango Thailandese curry is almost ready Youre invited

U.S. News Mexican officials charged with importing massive quantities of drugs into US

DHS wants you to think masked kidnap-squads are “NICE” PWS weekly on ICE, Border Patrol, and the brave communities , organizations, and individuals resisting their fascist policies LATEST for PWS

I know a few people who have taken this route, in addition to some who walked back south and some who were deported from Panama at US Taxpayer expense under Biden. Many of them spent all the money they'd saved in their lives to make these journeys and came home with nothing but trauma to show for it

On the Pacific coast, a perilous reverse migration route surges, only to disappear “If they didn't pay, they could leave them in the open sea" How US policy changed migration patterns across the continent LATEST by me www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio...

On the Pacific coast, a perilous reverse migration route surges, only to disappear “If they didn't pay, they could leave them in the open sea" How US policy changed migration patterns across the continent LATEST by me www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio...

If it had been 300 real-deal beat journos in that room we woulda had the whole skinny in ten minutes flat I think the biggest takeaway from this is that "influencers" and beltway pundits dont do journalism

It is terribly funny that the attempted shooting happened at an event with literally hundreds of the most annoying corporate DC-insider press correspondents and they still got almost every fact wrong in the initial reporting 😂 Support Indie media