Ecuador protests |Sources in Ecuador continue to share pretty disturbing videos with me. They show military members threatening civilians rifles, attacking, beating up, and kicking people after they’re down. 🪡

A Canadian lawyer just filed a complaint against Dundee Precious Metals before the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) for misleading shareholders about the Loma Larga #mining project in #Ecuador.

The complaint cites our report for @theguardian.com

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“They are all here,” a lady running a little shop on one of these roads told us. “The military comes through during the day, and when they go home in the evening, the others come out. I serve everyone - what else can I do?”

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🚨New Article | Our latest for @offmapmedia.bsky.social explores the tricky balance between navigating real danger in Colombia’s countryside and not getting sucked into the prejudices and anxieties that have accumulated over decades of civil conflict.

#Colombia #FARC-EP #ELN #security

The Trump administration is like Hitler’s Germany — a fascist state. Except when it’s like Springtime for Hitler — an absurdist parody of itself. @theatlantic.com @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social

I wish democrats in the US would pay attention, instead of worrying about bipartisanship, “waiting for the fever to break”, and getting vulnerable with their gym buddies or whatever it is Chuck Schumer is doing.

Today’s recommended read on Mexico with lessons for the United States where academic research is being gutted left and right.

Polls just closed in #Ecuador. Here’s what the CNE is saying. @offmapmedia.bsky.social @murosinvisibles.bsky.social

Item in yesterday’s Espectador how rising extortion in Medellin, Buenaventura, and Quibdó have become gangs’ most profitable source of income, “impeding urban Paz Total.”

The trend goes far beyond these cities and even Colombia. Extortion has skyrocketed in Ecuador, Peru, Mexico and others. 1/2 👇

Off-road near Jardin, Colombia - which the UN voted the country’s rural tourism capital this year. It’s gotten a lot more “gomelo” since the first time I visited but hasn’t lost its charm.