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Grace Livingstone
@graceliv.bsky.social
Journalist and affiliated lecturer at Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge. US/UK policy in Latin America.
Now researching: Environmental social movements, corporations, greenwash, water. https://www.grace-livingstone.com/
Chile's water regulator has found arsenic, copper & molybdenum in Santiago's main river

It says an Anglo American tailings dam is the only mining operation nearby

interferencia.cl/articulos/in...

Anglo is accused of many other pollution cases in Chile
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Informe de la DGA sugiere que relave de Anglo American contaminó el río Mapocho y sus afluentes
interferencia.cl
November 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Remembering Richard Gott

After Pinochet's coup, the UK Embassy pushed a pro-junta slant

One UK official hoped ‘The hours of Embassy briefings & the gin and tonics on the patio' would prevent anti-junta reporting

But Gott ignored it & exposed Pinochet's abuses

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Richard Gott was a groundbreaking, schmooz-proof journalist | Letters
Letters: Grace Livingstone and Martin Hamilton reflect on the work and interests of the late writer and historian
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I’m loving this book by @shafikmeghji.bsky.social
On history of UK and South America
What’s so nice is he highlights all the places you can see in London, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Patagonia and elsewhere that show the forgotten history
November 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
This explains why British Library staff are on strike

The union says - managers take home up to £170k with £15k bonuses, while staff offered below-inflation pay rise

Meanwhile, frontline staff take abuse for the massive data breach - which managers failed to foresee

@pcsunion.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Reposted by Grace Livingstone
Claudia Sheinbaum says she's pressing charges against the man who groped her this week outside Mexico's presidential palace.

“It is something that all women in our country experience,” she said. “If I do not report the crime ... what condition will all Mexican women be left in?”

wapo.st/4852563
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum pressing charges in groping incident
Mexico’s first female president said she is pressing charges against her assailant, sending a message in a country where harassment of women is common.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:23 PM
In 1973, the British-Chilean Chamber of Commerce circulated a booklet defending Pinochet's coup

it said 'there has been no evidence of torture or anything like it'

'Yes, the present government is authoritarian, but it is the essential antidote for the totalitarian Marxist period just ended'

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November 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Reposted by Grace Livingstone
Join PEN International, @sanmiguelpen.bsky.social, @englishpen.bsky.social and other PEN Centres with @amnesty.org and @article19.bsky.social. Together, we will gather in front of the Mexican Embassy in London to demand justice for murdered and disappeared journalists.

#NoOneIsGuaranteedSafety
October 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Inspiring film about the women's movement in Argentina and the fight for abortion rights

Based on the book by @anaecorrea.bsky.social about a woman imprisoned after having a miscarriage

Belén is in UK cinemas now

Brilliant performances by Dolores Fonzi & Camila Plaate
October 30, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Pennie Quinton & I are standing for a seat on NUJ national executive

We will be a strong voice for freelancers

We’ve seen the casualization of the industry, mass job losses and declining freelance rates

Vote for us. We will stand up for you
Members - get your votes in! 🗳️

LFB chair Pennie Quinton and deputy chair Grace Livingstone are teaming up as a job share for the London NEC seat. Please support them!

@rosesrebellion.bsky.social @graceliv.bsky.social

Here's their election statement.
October 30, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Reposted by Grace Livingstone
@nujlfb.bsky.social panel

Speakers on killing of journalists in Gaza include
@sangitamyska.bsky.social @bendepear.bsky.social

Ali Rocha @brazilmatters.bsky.social on murder of Dom & Bruno in Brazil

Also Laura Davison, Gen Sec @nujofficial.bsky.social

www.tickettailor.com/events/londo...
October 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Radical rightwinger Javier Milei wins landslide in mid-term elections in Argentina - after Trump promised him a $40bn bailout

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Argentina elections: Javier Milei and his 'chainsaw' austerity win big
Milei's radical spending cuts have won favour with Donald Trump, but also attracted widespread criticism.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 11:48 AM
@nujlfb.bsky.social panel

Speakers on killing of journalists in Gaza include
@sangitamyska.bsky.social @bendepear.bsky.social

Ali Rocha @brazilmatters.bsky.social on murder of Dom & Bruno in Brazil

Also Laura Davison, Gen Sec @nujofficial.bsky.social

www.tickettailor.com/events/londo...
October 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
During the Contra war against Nicaragua, Reagan govt faked grainy pictures of the Sandinistas supposedly receiving cargos of cocaine

Now Trump just asserts fishing boats near Venezuela are carrying drugs without evidence - or even bothering to fake the evidence

fair.org/extra/nicara...
Nicaragua’s Drug Connection Exposed as Hoax
The media showed little interest when subcommittee chairman Hughes recently disclosed he had new evidence that the entire Sandinista connection was a US intelligence fabrication
fair.org
October 23, 2025 at 11:57 AM
US intervention in Venezuela growing ever more possible

'if we arrive at end of November [or] early December and there’s not a resolution... president Trump very well could pull the trigger and do the operation' - former Trump advisor

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US ‘Night Stalkers’ seen in Caribbean as fears of regime change rise in Venezuela
Elite helicopter unit’s part in military deployment comes as Donald Trump ramps up pressure on Nicolás Maduro
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Protests planned across Caribbean today against US plans to increase its military presence in Grenada

- adding to the US military build up around Venezuela

Grenada's parliament to debate the US request

www.guardian.co.tt/news/grenada...
Grenada opposition MP says US should not be allowed to set up military base
Op­po­si­tion Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment Pe­ter David says Grena­da should not al­low the Unit­ed States to sta­tion mil­i­tary as­sets on the is­land, warn­ing that such a move would in­flame re­gion­al...
www.guardian.co.tt
October 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Brilliant book of amazing photos of the damage caused by mining and other extractive sites in Chile and Latin America

By photographer Nicole Kramm www.instagram.com/nicole_kramm/

We worked together on an investigation into Anglo American and pollution in Chile www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
October 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Looking forward to this book launch tonight
Join us for the launch of 'The Congress of the Disappeared', the brand-new novella by Bernardo Kucinski translated by Tom Gatehouse with support from @englishpen.bsky.social
tomorrow, 7 October at Photobook Cafe near Old Street, London, with @brazilmatters.bsky.social and @amnestyuk.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 9:38 AM
US attacks another boat in Venezuelan waters - a clear violation of international law

At least 21 people have been killed in four US strikes on boats near Venezuela in recent weeks

The Trump administration has provided no evidence of its claims they were carrying drugs

apnews.com/article/trum...
Hegseth announces latest strike on boat near Venezuela he says was trafficking drugs
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he ordered another strike on a small boat he accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela, expanding what the Trump administration has declared is an “arme...
apnews.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
An important book
Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed?

I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism

👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The UK's Critical Mineral Strategy (2022) lauds Anglo American as an example of a responsible mining company

Yet I've just been reporting from Chile where it has been fined numerous times for environmental infractions

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

www.gov.uk/government/p...
Illness, animal deaths and water shortages: life inside Chile’s polluted ‘sacrifice zones’
Allegations of environmental breaches dog Anglo American’s mining operations. Now the company has been given the go-ahead for plans that communities say risk disaster
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Reposted by Grace Livingstone
📣As the UK prepares to launch a new Critical Minerals Strategy, Cristóbal Rodríguez (spokesperson for MODATIMA) takes a deep dive into the previous strategy from the perspective of mining affected communities in Chile.
londonminingnetwork.org/2025/10/crit...
#CriticalMinerals #JustTransition
Critical Minerals, Empty Rhetoric: A Look at the UK's Critical Minerals Strategy from the MODATIMA movement in Chile - London Mining Network
London Mining Network - Holding the Mining Industry to Account
londonminingnetwork.org
October 2, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I've been reading a testimony of a Chilean exile who came to Britain after Pinochet's coup in 1970s

Her family were welcomed by a delegation of Scottish miners, playing bagpipes. Her house was furnished by donations from the local community

Isn't that the way to welcome refugees?

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October 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Atrocious attack in Manchester. Love and solidarity to the Jewish community.
We must stand together against hate.
October 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM