January 2009. Never forget.
Colombia's Supreme Court has ordered preventative home confinement for senator + former president Uribe. Hard to understate how seismic this is. Here's my thread from last October about the case https://t.co/6A2Q97sWKP
"As Trump dispenses with pretense of U.S. foreign policy as anything higher minded than arms deals and protection rackets, Dems have retreated to the consensus of lib internationalism-to the notion that more and better calibrated empire is the solution to the problems it causes." https://t.co/ijG3dKCNSs
Me reading my university’s reopening plan...
Just a reminder that a 30% discount on my book /may/ still be going if you buy direct from Arizona University Press https://t.co/Vh52H8xYDm ... So you can save money and give the finger to Amazon, a great 2-for-1 if you ask me! https://t.co/6xp49JIBx3
I guess the chant is “Elliot Abrams Go Home?”
Interesting use of quotation marks...
6/ In fact, the opposite happened. By putting Elliot Abrams (the symbol of “American imperialism” in Latin America) in charge of Venezuela, and by acting largely alone, Trump helped Maduro rally the military and much of the country against America and cast Guaido as a U.S. pawn.
El Escuadrón de la Muerte
name this band
Please forgive this bit of shameless self-promotion: I was featured in the "faculty spotlight" for UNM's Latin American and Iberian Institute:
https://t.co/KNAUSJHctN
(and a small erratum: I'm not Associate Professor yet - unless I somehow missed that memo...)