lya cuellar
@lyacg.bsky.social
Salvadoran. Berlinerin. Kind of a luddite. Not as bitter as I seem. 🦕
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For @palestinestudies.bsky.social’s Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, I contributed an article on the Palestinian community of El Salvador, the third largest in Latin America. Fortuitously out on Sept. 15. Feliz Día de la Independencia!
The Palestinians in El Salvador
Highlight - A Prosperous, yet Depoliticized Diaspora - El Salvador, one of the smallest countries in Central America, is an unlikely home for what has become the third largest Palestinian diaspora in....
www.palquest.org
September 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
For @palestinestudies.bsky.social’s Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, I contributed an article on the Palestinian community of El Salvador, the third largest in Latin America. Fortuitously out on Sept. 15. Feliz Día de la Independencia!
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🇸🇻 El Salvador:
„Der coolste Diktator der Welt“ – so inszeniert sich Nayib Bukele. Doch hinter dem Image steht brutale Gewalt gegen die Zivilgesellschaft.
LN analysiert die neue Repressionswelle kurz vor dem Jahrestag seiner verfassungswidrigen Wiederwahl.
📎 lateinamerika-nachri...
„Der coolste Diktator der Welt“ – so inszeniert sich Nayib Bukele. Doch hinter dem Image steht brutale Gewalt gegen die Zivilgesellschaft.
LN analysiert die neue Repressionswelle kurz vor dem Jahrestag seiner verfassungswidrigen Wiederwahl.
📎 lateinamerika-nachri...
Der „coolste Diktator“ bleibt nicht cool - Lateinamerika Nachrichten
Der „coolste Diktator“ bleibt nicht cool - Lateinamerika Nachrichten
lateinamerika-nachrichten.de
July 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
🇸🇻 El Salvador:
„Der coolste Diktator der Welt“ – so inszeniert sich Nayib Bukele. Doch hinter dem Image steht brutale Gewalt gegen die Zivilgesellschaft.
LN analysiert die neue Repressionswelle kurz vor dem Jahrestag seiner verfassungswidrigen Wiederwahl.
📎 lateinamerika-nachri...
„Der coolste Diktator der Welt“ – so inszeniert sich Nayib Bukele. Doch hinter dem Image steht brutale Gewalt gegen die Zivilgesellschaft.
LN analysiert die neue Repressionswelle kurz vor dem Jahrestag seiner verfassungswidrigen Wiederwahl.
📎 lateinamerika-nachri...
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"Alligator Alcatraz" is wrong and media should not use it. It's propaganda. Alcatraz held people convicted of crimes, particularly violent crimes.
The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere.
The site is a textbook concentration camp.
The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere.
The site is a textbook concentration camp.
I know the media is going to unthinkingly start using “Alligator Alcatraz,” but it’s disgusting and sadistic and I intend to call it what it is, a fucking concentration camp, and fuck those people who are doing this and giving it a cutesy name.
July 2, 2025 at 12:31 AM
"Alligator Alcatraz" is wrong and media should not use it. It's propaganda. Alcatraz held people convicted of crimes, particularly violent crimes.
The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere.
The site is a textbook concentration camp.
The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere.
The site is a textbook concentration camp.
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🚨 El Salvador 🚨
Amnesty International names Ruth López, Alejandro Henríquez, and José Ángel Pérez "prisoners of conscience" and demands their immediate release.
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Amnesty International names Ruth López, Alejandro Henríquez, and José Ángel Pérez "prisoners of conscience" and demands their immediate release.
Read more:
El Salvador: Amnesty International declares Ruth Eleonora López, Alejandro Henríquez and José Ángel Pérez prisoners of conscience amid increasing repression
Amnesty International names lawyer Ruth López, environmental defender Alejandro Henríquez and pastor and community leader José Ángel Pérez as prisoners of conscience.
www.amnesty.org
July 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
🚨 El Salvador 🚨
Amnesty International names Ruth López, Alejandro Henríquez, and José Ángel Pérez "prisoners of conscience" and demands their immediate release.
Read more:
Amnesty International names Ruth López, Alejandro Henríquez, and José Ángel Pérez "prisoners of conscience" and demands their immediate release.
Read more:
it's Yearning in Beautiful Gardens Summer!!!
June 19, 2025 at 11:09 AM
it's Yearning in Beautiful Gardens Summer!!!
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“latest shooting of gazans seeking food”
Israel kills 45 in latest shooting of Gazans seeking food, say local officials https://on.ft.com/4kMZ2EB
Israel kills 45 in latest shooting of Gazans seeking food, say local officials
Soldiers shot Gazans who were expecting aid trucks, according to the local health ministry
on.ft.com
June 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
“latest shooting of gazans seeking food”
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Lya Cuéllar verteidigt die Demokratie in El Salvador gegen die Mehrheit: In @unbiasthenews.bsky.social zeigt die Journalistin, wie #Bukele ein riesiges Haftsystem aufgebaut und Justiz und Presse attackiert hat und enorm populär ist – bis alle die Folgen spüren unbiasthenews.org/democracy-pl...
Opinion: El Salvador is the far-right’s dream crypto-carceral state – and it's failing - Unbias The News
With El Salvador's disturbing prison deal with the US in the spotlight, Lya Cuéllar takes a look back at how her country has fared under the self-styled "World's Coolest Dictator."
unbiasthenews.org
April 17, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Lya Cuéllar verteidigt die Demokratie in El Salvador gegen die Mehrheit: In @unbiasthenews.bsky.social zeigt die Journalistin, wie #Bukele ein riesiges Haftsystem aufgebaut und Justiz und Presse attackiert hat und enorm populär ist – bis alle die Folgen spüren unbiasthenews.org/democracy-pl...
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🎉 Sommerfest am 24. Mai | 15–22 Uhr
Wie jedes Jahr feiern wir im Rahmen der Linken Buchtage auf der Terrasse des Mehringhofs: mit Musik, Drinks, Infoständen & kleinen Snacks. Kommt vorbei und stoßt mit uns an! 🌞
📍 Mehringhof, Aufgang III
Gneisenaustr. 2a, 10961 Berlin
#BerlinEvents
Wie jedes Jahr feiern wir im Rahmen der Linken Buchtage auf der Terrasse des Mehringhofs: mit Musik, Drinks, Infoständen & kleinen Snacks. Kommt vorbei und stoßt mit uns an! 🌞
📍 Mehringhof, Aufgang III
Gneisenaustr. 2a, 10961 Berlin
#BerlinEvents
May 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
🎉 Sommerfest am 24. Mai | 15–22 Uhr
Wie jedes Jahr feiern wir im Rahmen der Linken Buchtage auf der Terrasse des Mehringhofs: mit Musik, Drinks, Infoständen & kleinen Snacks. Kommt vorbei und stoßt mit uns an! 🌞
📍 Mehringhof, Aufgang III
Gneisenaustr. 2a, 10961 Berlin
#BerlinEvents
Wie jedes Jahr feiern wir im Rahmen der Linken Buchtage auf der Terrasse des Mehringhofs: mit Musik, Drinks, Infoständen & kleinen Snacks. Kommt vorbei und stoßt mit uns an! 🌞
📍 Mehringhof, Aufgang III
Gneisenaustr. 2a, 10961 Berlin
#BerlinEvents
Salvadoran Congress just passed a so-called foreign agents law. NGOs must register all activities, which can be shut down arbitrarily if not approved. They are also imposing a devastating tax of 30% to all international funding. Bukele essentially just killed civil society.
May 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Salvadoran Congress just passed a so-called foreign agents law. NGOs must register all activities, which can be shut down arbitrarily if not approved. They are also imposing a devastating tax of 30% to all international funding. Bukele essentially just killed civil society.
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Ruth Lopez, a human rights and anti-corruption attorney, who spoke to Rolling Stone earlier this year about the brutal conditions in El Salvador's prisons, has been arrested by the Bukele government.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The 'Judicial Black Hole' of El Salvador's Prisons Is a Warning for Americans
Donald Trump is cementing a partnership with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, whose assault on civil rights is being mirrored in the U.S.
www.rollingstone.com
May 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Ruth Lopez, a human rights and anti-corruption attorney, who spoke to Rolling Stone earlier this year about the brutal conditions in El Salvador's prisons, has been arrested by the Bukele government.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Salvadoran human rights advocate Ruth Lopez was arrested yesterday amid escalating repression against critical voices. Her current location is unknown. As she was taken, she said to police: “Have some decency, this will all be over one day.” www.laprensagrafica.com/elsalvador/D...
Detienen a Ruth Eleonora López, jefa de Unidad Anticorrupción de Cristosal - La Prensa Gráfica
La Fiscalía acusó a López, a través de su cuenta de X, de haber colaborado con la sustracción de fondos del estado mientras trabajó como asesora del expresidente del Tribunal Supremo Electoral, Eugeni...
www.laprensagrafica.com
May 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Salvadoran human rights advocate Ruth Lopez was arrested yesterday amid escalating repression against critical voices. Her current location is unknown. As she was taken, she said to police: “Have some decency, this will all be over one day.” www.laprensagrafica.com/elsalvador/D...
Nine years ago, I had the privilege of telling Pepe Mujica (barely, because I was panicking, starstruck) that he was the reason I still believed in the Latin American left. He reacted by slapping the back of my head. Really caught me off guard. "That's dumb", he said. "You're young, stay hopeful."
May 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Nine years ago, I had the privilege of telling Pepe Mujica (barely, because I was panicking, starstruck) that he was the reason I still believed in the Latin American left. He reacted by slapping the back of my head. Really caught me off guard. "That's dumb", he said. "You're young, stay hopeful."
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"He’ll eat in a room with a floor covered in feces. He’ll ask, many times, for supplies to clean it up... he’ll gradually start to long to be deported to El Salvador, a country he barely knows. He’ll want this but won’t get it, because this is an ICE jail."
How is every story worst than the last?
How is every story worst than the last?
May 13, 2025 at 1:11 PM
"He’ll eat in a room with a floor covered in feces. He’ll ask, many times, for supplies to clean it up... he’ll gradually start to long to be deported to El Salvador, a country he barely knows. He’ll want this but won’t get it, because this is an ICE jail."
How is every story worst than the last?
How is every story worst than the last?
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¿Qué pasaría si las empresas pudieran crear su propia ciudad? Eso está ocurriendo en Roatán, Honduras. Una ciudad llamada Próspera que promete más libertad… para algunos. 🎧 Para saber más sobre esta historia escucha: elhilo.audio/prospera 🧵👇
May 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
¿Qué pasaría si las empresas pudieran crear su propia ciudad? Eso está ocurriendo en Roatán, Honduras. Una ciudad llamada Próspera que promete más libertad… para algunos. 🎧 Para saber más sobre esta historia escucha: elhilo.audio/prospera 🧵👇
recently at a bar, i watched a woman literally duck under a table and hide for a long period of time because she saw her Feeld date walk in and he was "too short". she legit waited until he left. dating apps are rotting everyone's brains
May 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
recently at a bar, i watched a woman literally duck under a table and hide for a long period of time because she saw her Feeld date walk in and he was "too short". she legit waited until he left. dating apps are rotting everyone's brains
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When 62% of germans feel the country is "überfremdet" (mitte studie 2024) then it makes sense to ask directly whether they also believe "The Great Replacement" is real. These scholars have done that - 18% are neofascists
We define GRT as five incremental beliefs:
1️⃣ White natives are getting outnumbered
2️⃣ This is morally bad
3️⃣ Because it has bad effects
4️⃣ Elites are orchestrating it
5️⃣ It must be stopped
In our German sample, 39% accept the first three (weak GRT) while 18% accept all five (strong GRT)
1️⃣ White natives are getting outnumbered
2️⃣ This is morally bad
3️⃣ Because it has bad effects
4️⃣ Elites are orchestrating it
5️⃣ It must be stopped
In our German sample, 39% accept the first three (weak GRT) while 18% accept all five (strong GRT)
May 12, 2025 at 10:05 AM
When 62% of germans feel the country is "überfremdet" (mitte studie 2024) then it makes sense to ask directly whether they also believe "The Great Replacement" is real. These scholars have done that - 18% are neofascists
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It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts
May 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts
mein ex hat mich UND eine andere ex im netflix-account noch drin. Ehrenmann
Man weiß, dass eine Beziehung unwiderruflich zu Ende ist, wenn man vom Netflix-Account des Exes endlich blockiert wird.
May 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
mein ex hat mich UND eine andere ex im netflix-account noch drin. Ehrenmann
no context Bukele gang truce cringe
May 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
no context Bukele gang truce cringe
"Many are now realizing what some of us have warned people about for years: that even if Mr. Bukele has ironically called himself the 'coolest dictator in the world,' he’s a dictator nonetheless." I hope the world hears the brave and brilliant Nelson Rauda out.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/o...
Opinion | The World Is Finally Seeing How Dangerous President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador Really Is
Even if El Salvador’s president has ironically called himself the “coolest dictator in the world,” he’s a dictator nonetheless.
www.nytimes.com
May 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
"Many are now realizing what some of us have warned people about for years: that even if Mr. Bukele has ironically called himself the 'coolest dictator in the world,' he’s a dictator nonetheless." I hope the world hears the brave and brilliant Nelson Rauda out.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/o...
A team of journalists from El Salvador released an incredible three-part interview with two former gang leaders that confirmed what we knew, but didn't *know*: that Nayib Bukele has had a long-time relationship with gangs. They are now being threatened and persecuted.
elfaro.net/en/202515/el...
elfaro.net/en/202515/el...
El Faro Denounces Possible Arrest Warrants for At Least Seven Staff Members in El Salvador
<p>A reliable source in El Salvador told El Faro that the Bukele-controlled Attorney General’s Office is preparing at least seven arrest warrants for members of El Faro. The source reached out followi...
elfaro.net
May 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
A team of journalists from El Salvador released an incredible three-part interview with two former gang leaders that confirmed what we knew, but didn't *know*: that Nayib Bukele has had a long-time relationship with gangs. They are now being threatened and persecuted.
elfaro.net/en/202515/el...
elfaro.net/en/202515/el...
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The Bukele govt sent the US a list of MS-13 leaders in US custody whom they want sent back, because they know about a gang deal with Bukele that Bukele wants to keep secret. Trump already sent one back. Here are the names, all based on Jose Olivares' reporting for @dropsitenews.com:
Secret Bukele Deal Lies Behind Trump’s El Salvador Deportations
Trump asked the Supreme Court Friday to lift the ban on renditions to Bukele’s torture chambers—and an update on the left wing comeback in Ecuador
www.dropsitenews.com
May 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The Bukele govt sent the US a list of MS-13 leaders in US custody whom they want sent back, because they know about a gang deal with Bukele that Bukele wants to keep secret. Trump already sent one back. Here are the names, all based on Jose Olivares' reporting for @dropsitenews.com:
I am generally very sickly and accident prone but yesterday might top everything so far. I went out to get matcha with a friend and ended up with a concussion at the hospital lol
May 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I am generally very sickly and accident prone but yesterday might top everything so far. I went out to get matcha with a friend and ended up with a concussion at the hospital lol
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I love having the immune system of a Victorian orphan
May 2, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I love having the immune system of a Victorian orphan
a lil doggy left her owner and adopted me and lovely @gibranmena.bsky.social during our morning coffee today
April 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
a lil doggy left her owner and adopted me and lovely @gibranmena.bsky.social during our morning coffee today