David C Adams
@dadams7308.bsky.social
Miami-based, British-American freelance journalist.
“For those fools, everyone from Venezuela is a criminal.” Great reporting on ICE in Chicago from
@propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/chic...
@propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
“For those fools, everyone from Venezuela is a criminal.” Great reporting on ICE in Chicago from
@propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/chic...
@propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“We feel a bit marooned right now,” says Richard Solomon, the mayor of Black River. Our story on the scene at the epicenter of Hurricane Melissa in Black River, on Jamaica's south coast. Hopefully aid arrives soon. With
Annie Correal and Frances Robles @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...
Annie Correal and Frances Robles @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...
Melissa Leaves Black River, Centuries-Old Jamaican Port Town, ‘Totally Destroyed’
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
“We feel a bit marooned right now,” says Richard Solomon, the mayor of Black River. Our story on the scene at the epicenter of Hurricane Melissa in Black River, on Jamaica's south coast. Hopefully aid arrives soon. With
Annie Correal and Frances Robles @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...
Annie Correal and Frances Robles @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...
The Cuban journalist trapped in America's immigration blockade.! 🦋
www.cjr.org/analysis/jos...
www.cjr.org/analysis/jos...
The Cuban Journalist Trapped in America’s Immigration Blockade
José Luis Tan Estrada has been stuck in Mexico since May, locked in asylum purgatory.
www.cjr.org
August 13, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The Cuban journalist trapped in America's immigration blockade.! 🦋
www.cjr.org/analysis/jos...
www.cjr.org/analysis/jos...
American Convicted of Murder Is Freed by Trump From Venezuela Prison. The Trump administration said it was protecting Americans unjustly held abroad. One of the rescued men, Dahud Hanid Ortiz, killed three people in Madrid and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...
American Convicted of Murder Is Freed by Trump From Venezuela Prison
www.nytimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
American Convicted of Murder Is Freed by Trump From Venezuela Prison. The Trump administration said it was protecting Americans unjustly held abroad. One of the rescued men, Dahud Hanid Ortiz, killed three people in Madrid and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...
'In Cuba, There Are No Beggars,’ Minister Claims, Before Being Ousted. Feitó’s words exposed what many Cubans concluded long ago, that the government is out of touch with the lives of ordinary people while their leaders cling to a state-run economic model. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/w...
Cuban Minister Ousted After Accusing Beggars of Faking Poverty
www.nytimes.com
July 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
'In Cuba, There Are No Beggars,’ Minister Claims, Before Being Ousted. Feitó’s words exposed what many Cubans concluded long ago, that the government is out of touch with the lives of ordinary people while their leaders cling to a state-run economic model. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/w...
The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on ICE authorities to respect an immigration court ruling and release on bail journalist Mario Guevara, a native of El Salvador who has been legally in the U.S. for the past 20 years. cpj.org/2025/07/ice-...
ICE defies court, says journalist Mario Guevara 'not releasable' - Committee to Protect Journalists
Washington, D.C., July 7, 2025— The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities to respect an immigration court ruling and release on ...
cpj.org
July 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on ICE authorities to respect an immigration court ruling and release on bail journalist Mario Guevara, a native of El Salvador who has been legally in the U.S. for the past 20 years. cpj.org/2025/07/ice-...
A Hotel Made Famous by Graham Greene Is a Victim of Haiti’s Violence. Haiti’s famed Oloffson Hotel, a cultural landmark and celebrity haven, was incinerated amid rising violence by gangs that control most of the country’s capital.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/w...
A Hotel Made Famous by Graham Greene Is a Victim of Haiti’s Violence
www.nytimes.com
July 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
A Hotel Made Famous by Graham Greene Is a Victim of Haiti’s Violence. Haiti’s famed Oloffson Hotel, a cultural landmark and celebrity haven, was incinerated amid rising violence by gangs that control most of the country’s capital.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/w...
The iconic #Oloffson Hotel of Graham Greene fame, was burned down at the weekend. A great loss of Haitian 'gingerbread' architecture. Like other journalists, I spent many nights there in the past. Greene set some famous scenes there in his novel, 'The Comedians'.
July 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The iconic #Oloffson Hotel of Graham Greene fame, was burned down at the weekend. A great loss of Haitian 'gingerbread' architecture. Like other journalists, I spent many nights there in the past. Greene set some famous scenes there in his novel, 'The Comedians'.
Haitian immigrant high schooler detained by ICE despite legal status A 20-year-old NY high school student, whose dad is a U.S. citizen, arrived legally from Haiti, but has been held in ICE detention for weeks. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Haitian immigrant high schooler detained by ICE despite legal status
A 20-year-old NY high school student, whose dad is a U.S. citizen, arrived legally from Haiti, but has been held in ICE detention for weeks.
www.usatoday.com
July 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Haitian immigrant high schooler detained by ICE despite legal status A 20-year-old NY high school student, whose dad is a U.S. citizen, arrived legally from Haiti, but has been held in ICE detention for weeks. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Defense announced it would immediately stop ingesting, processing, and transmitting data essential to most hurricane forecasts. by @MichaelRLowry open.substack.com/pub/michaelr...
Critical Hurricane Forecast Tool Abruptly Terminated
U.S. Department of Defense announced Tuesday it would no longer process and deliver data essential to most hurricane forecasts
open.substack.com
June 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Defense announced it would immediately stop ingesting, processing, and transmitting data essential to most hurricane forecasts. by @MichaelRLowry open.substack.com/pub/michaelr...
Nezza's anthem in Spanish at Dodger Stadium ignites debate. “El Pendón Estrellado,” is the official translation of the national anthem commissioned in 1945 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt from Peruvian-American composer Clotilde Arias. apnews.com/article/dodg...
Nezza's anthem in Spanish at Dodger Stadium ignites debate over team's immigrant support
After Latin pop and R&B singer Nezza's viral controversial performance at Dodger Stadium, Dodgers fans have grown frustrated over the team’s lack of vocal support for local immigrant communities i...
apnews.com
June 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Nezza's anthem in Spanish at Dodger Stadium ignites debate. “El Pendón Estrellado,” is the official translation of the national anthem commissioned in 1945 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt from Peruvian-American composer Clotilde Arias. apnews.com/article/dodg...
Haiti Is Using Drones to Fight Gangs. Here’s Why That’s Likely to Be Illegal. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/u...
Haiti Is Using Drones to Fight Gangs. Here’s Why That’s Likely to Be Illegal.
www.nytimes.com
June 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Haiti Is Using Drones to Fight Gangs. Here’s Why That’s Likely to Be Illegal. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/u...
Trump's Haiti travel ban will impact sick children, families and businesses are among the many people trapped in a country plagued by gang violence. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/u...
Haiti Reels as Trump Severs a Lifeline
www.nytimes.com
June 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Trump's Haiti travel ban will impact sick children, families and businesses are among the many people trapped in a country plagued by gang violence. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/u...
A Desperate Haiti Turns to Erik Prince, Trump Ally, in Fight Against Gangs with Frances Robles and @markmazzetti.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...
A Desperate Haiti Turns to Erik Prince, Trump Ally, in Fight Against Gangs
www.nytimes.com
May 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
A Desperate Haiti Turns to Erik Prince, Trump Ally, in Fight Against Gangs with Frances Robles and @markmazzetti.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...
Trump Labels #Haiti’s Powerful Gangs as Terrorists.
The move will enable harsh sanctions on the gangs, which control important sectors of the country’s economy, and anybody who does business with them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/w...
The move will enable harsh sanctions on the gangs, which control important sectors of the country’s economy, and anybody who does business with them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/w...
Trump Labels Haiti’s Powerful Gangs as Terrorists (Gift Article)
The move will enable harsh sanctions on the gangs, which control important sectors of the country’s economy, and anybody who does business with them.
www.nytimes.com
May 2, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Trump Labels #Haiti’s Powerful Gangs as Terrorists.
The move will enable harsh sanctions on the gangs, which control important sectors of the country’s economy, and anybody who does business with them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/w...
The move will enable harsh sanctions on the gangs, which control important sectors of the country’s economy, and anybody who does business with them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/w...
Mr. Bukele wanted assurances from the United States that each of those locked up in the prison were members of Tren de Aragua, the transnational gang with roots in Venezuela, according to people familiar with the situation and documents obtained by The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/u...
Behind Trump’s Deal to Deport Venezuelans to El Salvador’s Most Feared Prison (Gift Article)
New details deepen questions about the deportations, showing that El Salvador’s president pressed for assurances that the migrants were really members of the Tren de Aragua gang.
www.nytimes.com
April 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Mr. Bukele wanted assurances from the United States that each of those locked up in the prison were members of Tren de Aragua, the transnational gang with roots in Venezuela, according to people familiar with the situation and documents obtained by The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/u...
Haiti's year-old transitional government is facing overt threats of a coup as UN is tied up in indecision, says the @crisisgroup.org #Haiti
UN Paralysed on Haiti despite Gang Threat to Government | Crisis Group
Crisis Group’s Diego Da Rin on the difficulties of getting more aid to the multilateral security mission
www.crisisgroup.org
April 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Haiti's year-old transitional government is facing overt threats of a coup as UN is tied up in indecision, says the @crisisgroup.org #Haiti
"All of Hamas, out!"
On the streets of Gaza, more and more Palestinians are expressing open defiance against the armed group that's ruled the strip for almost 20 years. bbc.com/news/article...
On the streets of Gaza, more and more Palestinians are expressing open defiance against the armed group that's ruled the strip for almost 20 years. bbc.com/news/article...
Hamas' iron grip on Gaza is slowly slipping as residents protest
Gazan civilians are losing their fear of Hamas, openly criticising the group on the streets and online.
bbc.com
April 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
"All of Hamas, out!"
On the streets of Gaza, more and more Palestinians are expressing open defiance against the armed group that's ruled the strip for almost 20 years. bbc.com/news/article...
On the streets of Gaza, more and more Palestinians are expressing open defiance against the armed group that's ruled the strip for almost 20 years. bbc.com/news/article...
In a perilous sign of insecurity in Haiti's capital, the landmark Marriott hotel is "suspending its activities." An official tell me: "The degrading security conditions are making the safety of guests and employees increasingly difficult to guarantee, and this is something that we cannot play with."
April 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
In a perilous sign of insecurity in Haiti's capital, the landmark Marriott hotel is "suspending its activities." An official tell me: "The degrading security conditions are making the safety of guests and employees increasingly difficult to guarantee, and this is something that we cannot play with."
Two freelance journalists jailed amid Cuba’s ongoing repression of independent press cpj.org?p=472563 via @CPJAmericas
2 freelance journalists arrested amid Cuba’s ongoing repression of independent press - Committee to Protect Journalists
Miami, April 17, 2025– CPJ is alarmed by the arrest and prolonged pre-trail detention of Cuban freelance reporters Yadiel Hernández and José Gabriel Barrenechea, who both write for the online newspape...
cpj.org
April 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Two freelance journalists jailed amid Cuba’s ongoing repression of independent press cpj.org?p=472563 via @CPJAmericas
British man’s tattoo wrongly linked to Venezuelan gang in official US document www.bbc.com/news/article...
British man's tattoo wrongly linked to Venezuelan gang in US government document
A tattoo belonging to a man from Derbyshire has appeared in a US government document used to identify members of Tren de Aragua, a notorious Venezuelan gang, despite the man having no connection to th...
www.bbc.com
April 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
British man’s tattoo wrongly linked to Venezuelan gang in official US document www.bbc.com/news/article...
Journalists kidnapped, threatened with lynching as chaos worsens in Haiti cpj.org?p=470661
Journalists kidnapped, threatened with lynching as chaos worsens in Haiti - Committee to Protect Journalists
Miami, April 8, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned about deteriorating media safety amid surging violence in Haiti, in which at least one journalist was kidnapped and two were almo...
cpj.org
April 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Journalists kidnapped, threatened with lynching as chaos worsens in Haiti cpj.org?p=470661
Mario Joseph, a renowned human rights attorney in Haiti, has died after a car accident apnews.com/article/mari...
Mario Joseph, a renowned human rights attorney in Haiti, dies after a car accident
Mario Joseph, a human rights attorney in Haiti known for his involvement in high-profile cases, has died. He was 62.
apnews.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Mario Joseph, a renowned human rights attorney in Haiti, has died after a car accident apnews.com/article/mari...
Reposted by David C Adams
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/u... great reporting by @dadams7308.bsky.social Frances Robles @nytimes.com. The U.S. crime gun pipeline that arms Haiti gangs must be stopped at its source: the gun industry.
Haiti Doesn’t Make Guns. So How Are Gangs Awash in Them?
Federal authorities in several countries have recently nabbed several caches of weapons headed to Haiti, but armed violence continues to rise there, with gangs increasingly obtaining high-caliber fire...
www.nytimes.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/u... great reporting by @dadams7308.bsky.social Frances Robles @nytimes.com. The U.S. crime gun pipeline that arms Haiti gangs must be stopped at its source: the gun industry.
Nice peice from @aljazeera.com Teresa Bo on the unfolding dispute in Guyana's #Essequibo region bordering #Venezuela youtu.be/nYXGpo-85aA?...
Guyana-Venezuela tensions rise as Caracas plans elections in disputed Essequibo region
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
youtu.be
March 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Nice peice from @aljazeera.com Teresa Bo on the unfolding dispute in Guyana's #Essequibo region bordering #Venezuela youtu.be/nYXGpo-85aA?...