Jonny Wrate
@evodzoni.bsky.social
Investigative journalist in Latin America at OCCRP. Organised crime, corruption, environment, illicit finance
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Jonny Wrate
@evodzoni.bsky.social
· Sep 1
ANALYSIS: Alleged Mexican Cartel Members Buy Time With Legal Mechanism
Men accused of murder, drug trafficking, and cartel activity have used “amparos,” which are supposed to protect individual rights against miscarriages of justice, to indefinitely delay trials and extr...
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Unable to extradite cartel capos due to legal processes but under pressure from the White House to take action, Mexico found a way to bypass a key human rights law by 'expelling' them north. Here, @liliasaul.bsky.social and I dig into the amparos behind the decision.
www.occrp.org/en/feature/a...
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Truly a remarkable piece here in Bidoun by Ismail Ibrahim on his time as the sole Arabic-speaking fact-checker at The New Yorker. It's very well-written and
...the exceptions to standards editor David Remnick makes to protect Israeli interests in that mag is really quite something.
...the exceptions to standards editor David Remnick makes to protect Israeli interests in that mag is really quite something.
House Arab
I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it s...
bidoun.org
September 17, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Truly a remarkable piece here in Bidoun by Ismail Ibrahim on his time as the sole Arabic-speaking fact-checker at The New Yorker. It's very well-written and
...the exceptions to standards editor David Remnick makes to protect Israeli interests in that mag is really quite something.
...the exceptions to standards editor David Remnick makes to protect Israeli interests in that mag is really quite something.
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NEW: Chihuahua, Mexico's most sprawling state, is building a surveillance system.
Once complete, it'll have almost 10K cameras, including some w/ facial recognition capabilities.
Authorities offered to share access with US police—including Texas DPS. 🧵
www.texasobserver.org/texas-chihua...
Once complete, it'll have almost 10K cameras, including some w/ facial recognition capabilities.
Authorities offered to share access with US police—including Texas DPS. 🧵
www.texasobserver.org/texas-chihua...
Just Beyond the Texas Border, Chihuahua Is Launching a Burgeoning State Surveillance System
The 20-story Torre Centinela looming over Juárez is part of a much larger AI-powered network that won’t stop at the U.S.-Mexico divide.
www.texasobserver.org
September 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
NEW: Chihuahua, Mexico's most sprawling state, is building a surveillance system.
Once complete, it'll have almost 10K cameras, including some w/ facial recognition capabilities.
Authorities offered to share access with US police—including Texas DPS. 🧵
www.texasobserver.org/texas-chihua...
Once complete, it'll have almost 10K cameras, including some w/ facial recognition capabilities.
Authorities offered to share access with US police—including Texas DPS. 🧵
www.texasobserver.org/texas-chihua...
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I spent the day with Curtis Yarvin and the "dissident right" at a garden party in Surrey and wrote quite a few words about it.
My cover story for today’s FT Magazine
on.ft.com/4ooXS4t [GIFT LINK! 🎁]
My cover story for today’s FT Magazine
on.ft.com/4ooXS4t [GIFT LINK! 🎁]
Sunday at the garden party for Curtis Yarvin and the new, new right
[FREE TO READ] What you learn at a gathering of neoreactionaries, Very Online rightwingers and the formerly cancelled
on.ft.com
August 9, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I spent the day with Curtis Yarvin and the "dissident right" at a garden party in Surrey and wrote quite a few words about it.
My cover story for today’s FT Magazine
on.ft.com/4ooXS4t [GIFT LINK! 🎁]
My cover story for today’s FT Magazine
on.ft.com/4ooXS4t [GIFT LINK! 🎁]
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Dear readers, we urgently need your help.
Without at least 15,000 regular supporters, Meduza as you know it will cease to exist. But if you come through, you know we’ll keep working for you.
Please, read our full statement here:
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Without at least 15,000 regular supporters, Meduza as you know it will cease to exist. But if you come through, you know we’ll keep working for you.
Please, read our full statement here:
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We need your help An urgent appeal from the Meduza team — Meduza
Dear Meduza in English readers,
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September 2, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Dear readers, we urgently need your help.
Without at least 15,000 regular supporters, Meduza as you know it will cease to exist. But if you come through, you know we’ll keep working for you.
Please, read our full statement here:
meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Without at least 15,000 regular supporters, Meduza as you know it will cease to exist. But if you come through, you know we’ll keep working for you.
Please, read our full statement here:
meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Unable to extradite cartel capos due to legal processes but under pressure from the White House to take action, Mexico found a way to bypass a key human rights law by 'expelling' them north. Here, @liliasaul.bsky.social and I dig into the amparos behind the decision.
www.occrp.org/en/feature/a...
www.occrp.org/en/feature/a...
ANALYSIS: Alleged Mexican Cartel Members Buy Time With Legal Mechanism
Men accused of murder, drug trafficking, and cartel activity have used “amparos,” which are supposed to protect individual rights against miscarriages of justice, to indefinitely delay trials and extr...
www.occrp.org
September 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Unable to extradite cartel capos due to legal processes but under pressure from the White House to take action, Mexico found a way to bypass a key human rights law by 'expelling' them north. Here, @liliasaul.bsky.social and I dig into the amparos behind the decision.
www.occrp.org/en/feature/a...
www.occrp.org/en/feature/a...
Chomsky 🤝 CIA = helping you nail that next big performance review
September 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Chomsky 🤝 CIA = helping you nail that next big performance review
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My first report for @al-jazeera-english.bsky.social in a while- on the death of Jesús Alaín Vásquez, a student of the Mactumatzá Normal here in Chiapas & the demands of his classmates for justice. www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...
How a student’s death in Mexico raises questions about police violence
A 22-year-old’s death has highlighted the tensions between police and student teachers with a tradition of protest.
www.aljazeera.com
August 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
My first report for @al-jazeera-english.bsky.social in a while- on the death of Jesús Alaín Vásquez, a student of the Mactumatzá Normal here in Chiapas & the demands of his classmates for justice. www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...
"They’re starting to resist more now,” to which an officer replies: “We’re going to end up shooting some of them."
If this is what they're getting caught on camera doing--to teenage US citizens--just imagine what they're doing that we don't see.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest
Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets
www.theguardian.com
July 26, 2025 at 12:22 AM
"They’re starting to resist more now,” to which an officer replies: “We’re going to end up shooting some of them."
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Zohran Mamdani is not only doing something different in politics – he's bringing the different parts of his identity into his campaign. I write about Ugandan Asian diasporic identity and coming from many places @nytopinion.nytimes.com @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/o...
Opinion | How Zohran Mamdani Answers, ‘Where Are You From?’
www.nytimes.com
July 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Zohran Mamdani is not only doing something different in politics – he's bringing the different parts of his identity into his campaign. I write about Ugandan Asian diasporic identity and coming from many places @nytopinion.nytimes.com @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/o...
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Hace unas semanas, la Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores de México intervino tres bancos mexicanos acusados por el Departamento del Tesoro de EE. UU. de presuntos vínculos con el crimen organizado.
Hoy te presentamos otros hallazgos:
Hoy te presentamos otros hallazgos:
July 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Hace unas semanas, la Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores de México intervino tres bancos mexicanos acusados por el Departamento del Tesoro de EE. UU. de presuntos vínculos con el crimen organizado.
Hoy te presentamos otros hallazgos:
Hoy te presentamos otros hallazgos:
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El inmenso Chaco paraguayo esconde muchos secretos. ¿Quieres saber cuáles descubrimos?
July 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
El inmenso Chaco paraguayo esconde muchos secretos. ¿Quieres saber cuáles descubrimos?
Spectacular, no notes.
July 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Spectacular, no notes.
Since 2022, Mexico’s customs have been controlled by the military as part of a vast expansion of its power [...] In that time illegal imports have exploded in volume.
“Either they’ve been totally blind and incompetent or complicit.”
ig.ft.com/mexico-fuel-...
“Either they’ve been totally blind and incompetent or complicit.”
ig.ft.com/mexico-fuel-...
How smuggled US fuel funds Mexico’s cartels
Sophisticated criminal networks are illegally importing huge volumes of fuel — and piling pressure on Mexico’s president
ig.ft.com
June 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Since 2022, Mexico’s customs have been controlled by the military as part of a vast expansion of its power [...] In that time illegal imports have exploded in volume.
“Either they’ve been totally blind and incompetent or complicit.”
ig.ft.com/mexico-fuel-...
“Either they’ve been totally blind and incompetent or complicit.”
ig.ft.com/mexico-fuel-...
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On Tuesday night I was barred from entering Georgia, my home for the last three years. Official reasons were given as “other,” but from the circumstances of my departure in April it’s clear the refusal is directly tied to my work covering the country as a journalist. 1/
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Between harassment and expulsion, Georgia is bent on silencing British journalist Will Neal
Independent British journalist Will Neal was arbitrarily denied entry into Georgia, where he has lived since 2022, upon returning from a trip to the United Kingdom (UK) and European Union (EU). Report...
rsf.org
May 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
On Tuesday night I was barred from entering Georgia, my home for the last three years. Official reasons were given as “other,” but from the circumstances of my departure in April it’s clear the refusal is directly tied to my work covering the country as a journalist. 1/
rsf.org/en/between-h...
rsf.org/en/between-h...
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The International School of Belgrade’s fees aren’t cheap — annual tuition costs more than the mayor’s salary.
So how did Belgrade’s former mayor — and now Serbia’s Finance Minister — Siniša Mali fund his three children’s education there?
www.occrp.org/en/investiga...
So how did Belgrade’s former mayor — and now Serbia’s Finance Minister — Siniša Mali fund his three children’s education there?
www.occrp.org/en/investiga...
Pricey Private School Tuition for Serbian Official’s Children Was Paid Through Offshore Companies
Siniša Mali, the former mayor of Belgrade and Serbia’s current finance minister, sent his children to an elite school where a year’s tuition cost far more than his official income. He claimed that…
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May 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The International School of Belgrade’s fees aren’t cheap — annual tuition costs more than the mayor’s salary.
So how did Belgrade’s former mayor — and now Serbia’s Finance Minister — Siniša Mali fund his three children’s education there?
www.occrp.org/en/investiga...
So how did Belgrade’s former mayor — and now Serbia’s Finance Minister — Siniša Mali fund his three children’s education there?
www.occrp.org/en/investiga...
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NEW: A major supplier to the global electric vehicle battery industry knew that its Indonesian nickel operations were polluting water with a carcinogenic chemical — and didn’t disclose it.
👇Here’s a quick overview of our findings with @thegeckoproject.org , Deutsche Welle and @theguardian.com
👇Here’s a quick overview of our findings with @thegeckoproject.org , Deutsche Welle and @theguardian.com
April 30, 2025 at 7:35 AM
NEW: A major supplier to the global electric vehicle battery industry knew that its Indonesian nickel operations were polluting water with a carcinogenic chemical — and didn’t disclose it.
👇Here’s a quick overview of our findings with @thegeckoproject.org , Deutsche Welle and @theguardian.com
👇Here’s a quick overview of our findings with @thegeckoproject.org , Deutsche Welle and @theguardian.com
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Gran investigación de @aristeguionline.bsky.social
#TelevisaLeaks | La fábrica de mentiras, manipulación y guerra sucia
aristeguinoticias.com/2704/investi...
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#TelevisaLeaks | La fábrica de mentiras, manipulación y guerra sucia
Una filtración masiva, de más de 5 terabytes de datos, revela que dentro de la televisora más grande del mundo en habla hispana opera un grupo clandestino para difundir noticias falsas y ataques contr...
aristeguinoticias.com
April 28, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Gran investigación de @aristeguionline.bsky.social
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Él consiguió un pasaporte nuevo aunque era buscado por la Interpol | 🧵
April 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Él consiguió un pasaporte nuevo aunque era buscado por la Interpol | 🧵
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Es común que periodistas de investigación sean acusados de ser agentes pagados por una potencia extranjera. Los dictadores y cleptócratas lo hacen todos los días.
Pero volverse parte de una teoría de conspiración es completamente distinto... te contamos:
✍️ Aubrey Belford
Pero volverse parte de una teoría de conspiración es completamente distinto... te contamos:
✍️ Aubrey Belford
El periodismo de investigación es libertad de expresión, no ‘traición’
Escribí una historia que fue citada en una denuncia que condujo al primer juicio político contra Donald Trump. Ahora está siendo usada, como parte de una teoría de la conspiración, para atacar los fo...
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February 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Es común que periodistas de investigación sean acusados de ser agentes pagados por una potencia extranjera. Los dictadores y cleptócratas lo hacen todos los días.
Pero volverse parte de una teoría de conspiración es completamente distinto... te contamos:
✍️ Aubrey Belford
Pero volverse parte de una teoría de conspiración es completamente distinto... te contamos:
✍️ Aubrey Belford
En el teatro de la guerra contra los migrantes, asegurar escaleras es la nueva incautación de toneladas
aristeguinoticias.com/060225/mexic...
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Juárez: GN asegura escaleras presuntamente usadas para cruzar la frontera; buscan segundo túnel
'Estamos buscando túneles en toda la franja fronteriza derivado del hallazgo que hubo del túnel pasado', aseguró Sugey Aguilar, subsecretaria de Seguridad Pública de Chihuahua.
aristeguinoticias.com
February 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
En el teatro de la guerra contra los migrantes, asegurar escaleras es la nueva incautación de toneladas
aristeguinoticias.com/060225/mexic...
aristeguinoticias.com/060225/mexic...
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nb. Under AMLO funding for civil society organisations was cut, leaving only sources like USAID. Which are now being cut. From 2021: foreignpolicy.com/2021/06/05/w...
Why Has AMLO Accused USAID of a “Coup Against Mexico”?
Ahead of elections this weekend, Mexico’s president has ramped up attacks on civil society groups.
foreignpolicy.com
February 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
nb. Under AMLO funding for civil society organisations was cut, leaving only sources like USAID. Which are now being cut. From 2021: foreignpolicy.com/2021/06/05/w...
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🧵 Víctor Cruz Weffer: de favorito de Chávez a imputado por corrupción tras la aparición de los #PanamaPapers:
February 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
🧵 Víctor Cruz Weffer: de favorito de Chávez a imputado por corrupción tras la aparición de los #PanamaPapers:
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The Media Is Missing the Story: Elon Musk Is Staging a Coup
As the world's richest man seizes control of government agencies, mainstream outlets are treating it like standard political news
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February 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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