Erika Piñeros
@erikapineros.bsky.social
Journalist • Photographer • Filmmaker • Conflict, social issues, human rights 🇨🇴 🇰🇭
www.erikapineros.com
www.erikapineros.com
"But Rockoff is not dead, and his voice has often been absent from the debate: “I didn’t give him anything. If he has them, he has got to give them back.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/a...
Bledsoe's website in case you'd like to send a note:
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Bledsoe's website in case you'd like to send a note:
www.alrockoffphotography.com/contact
Al Rockoff’s War Is Still Being Fought
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:56 AM
"But Rockoff is not dead, and his voice has often been absent from the debate: “I didn’t give him anything. If he has them, he has got to give them back.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/a...
Bledsoe's website in case you'd like to send a note:
www.alrockoffphotography.com/contact
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/a...
Bledsoe's website in case you'd like to send a note:
www.alrockoffphotography.com/contact
Social leader Jani Silva discusses risks of traveling after receiving threats from illegal armed groups. Putumayo, Colombia. ©Erika Pineros / Global Witness 🇨🇴
@GlobalWitness.org documented 146 killings and disappearances of land and environmental defenders.
#Colombia #conservation #humanrights
@GlobalWitness.org documented 146 killings and disappearances of land and environmental defenders.
#Colombia #conservation #humanrights
September 30, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Social leader Jani Silva discusses risks of traveling after receiving threats from illegal armed groups. Putumayo, Colombia. ©Erika Pineros / Global Witness 🇨🇴
@GlobalWitness.org documented 146 killings and disappearances of land and environmental defenders.
#Colombia #conservation #humanrights
@GlobalWitness.org documented 146 killings and disappearances of land and environmental defenders.
#Colombia #conservation #humanrights
In 2024, @globalwitness.org documented 146 killings and long-term disappearances of land and environmental defenders. Many attacks go unreported. 82% of all cases took place in Latin America. Colombia remains one of the world’s deadliest:
globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
New threats target land and environmental rights defenders
Land and environmental defenders face extreme violence, criminalisation and lack of protection around the world, with 146 killed or disappeared in 2024
globalwitness.org
September 29, 2025 at 7:37 AM
In 2024, @globalwitness.org documented 146 killings and long-term disappearances of land and environmental defenders. Many attacks go unreported. 82% of all cases took place in Latin America. Colombia remains one of the world’s deadliest:
globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
“...people are making real connections with these AI now, regardless of whether it is real or not.”
“...people are making real connections with these AI now, regardless of whether it is real or not.”
September 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
“...people are making real connections with these AI now, regardless of whether it is real or not.”
“...people are making real connections with these AI now, regardless of whether it is real or not.”
The surface cause of the conflict is a decades-long dispute over ancient temples and an ambiguous border. But beneath the nationalist rhetoric lies a more strategic target: the proliferating scam compounds, an industry that accounts for up to 60 percent of Cambodia's economy.
The Cambodia-Thailand border houses a significant slice of the trillion-dollar cybercrime industry, where prison-like, office-dormitory compounds run online scams using forced and trafficked labor. Reported by Lindsey Kennedy and Nathan Paul Southern.
Are Scam Compounds the Real Cause of Thailand-Cambodia Fighting?
Intense strikes targeted “pig butchering” syndicates on the border.
foreignpolicy.com
September 19, 2025 at 5:16 AM
The surface cause of the conflict is a decades-long dispute over ancient temples and an ambiguous border. But beneath the nationalist rhetoric lies a more strategic target: the proliferating scam compounds, an industry that accounts for up to 60 percent of Cambodia's economy.
Such an important warning, again ⚠️
@nytimes.com #AI #ChatGPT #epidemic
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@nytimes.com #AI #ChatGPT #epidemic
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Trapped in a ChatGPT Spiral
Podcast Episode · The Daily · 16/09/2025 · 44m
podcasts.apple.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Such an important warning, again ⚠️
@nytimes.com #AI #ChatGPT #epidemic
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
@nytimes.com #AI #ChatGPT #epidemic
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Last night's exhibition at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum by participants of the Archives of Perpetration Workshop. Visit the White Lotus Room for a glimpse of Cambodian's new proposals for memorializing the past 🇰🇭
The exhibition will then move to Choeung Ek and M-13.
#Cambodia #memory #genocide
The exhibition will then move to Choeung Ek and M-13.
#Cambodia #memory #genocide
September 14, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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August 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Unmatched courage
"If you are reading this, it means I have been killed."
www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
"If you are reading this, it means I have been killed."
www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
'We, French journalists, stand in solidarity with our colleagues in Gaza'
OP-ED. Israeli bombings in the Gaza Strip have killed nearly 200 Palestinian journalists in 18 months. A collective of French professional organizations condemns this massacre and the media blackout t...
www.lemonde.fr
April 19, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Unmatched courage
"If you are reading this, it means I have been killed."
www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
"If you are reading this, it means I have been killed."
www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
Reposted by Erika Piñeros
Having been involved in the interagency discussions in 2016 over a strike on the Houthis in Yemen, I'll just say that this was not how the Obama administration handled these matters.
You cannot make this shit up. Sharing this jaw-dropping story with a gift link -- give it a read.
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Having been involved in the interagency discussions in 2016 over a strike on the Houthis in Yemen, I'll just say that this was not how the Obama administration handled these matters.
Megadams and canals push Mekong fishing families to the brink 🇰🇭
Here, Chankoo on the day he left his home to study Korean and chase a new life as a factory worker. His family hopes his earnings can alleviate their debts. ©Erika Piñeros
#Cambodia #Mekong #development #environment #migration
Here, Chankoo on the day he left his home to study Korean and chase a new life as a factory worker. His family hopes his earnings can alleviate their debts. ©Erika Piñeros
#Cambodia #Mekong #development #environment #migration
March 20, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Megadams and canals push Mekong fishing families to the brink 🇰🇭
Here, Chankoo on the day he left his home to study Korean and chase a new life as a factory worker. His family hopes his earnings can alleviate their debts. ©Erika Piñeros
#Cambodia #Mekong #development #environment #migration
Here, Chankoo on the day he left his home to study Korean and chase a new life as a factory worker. His family hopes his earnings can alleviate their debts. ©Erika Piñeros
#Cambodia #Mekong #development #environment #migration
Giant infrastructure projects wreck ecosystems and communities along the Mekong 🇰🇭
Here, the endangered Irrawaddy dolphins (Orcaella brevirostris) in Kratie and the threatened eco-tourism industry at stake. © Erika Piñeros
#Cambodia #Mekong #fishing #development #environment #photojournalism
Here, the endangered Irrawaddy dolphins (Orcaella brevirostris) in Kratie and the threatened eco-tourism industry at stake. © Erika Piñeros
#Cambodia #Mekong #fishing #development #environment #photojournalism
March 17, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Giant infrastructure projects wreck ecosystems and communities along the Mekong 🇰🇭
Here, the endangered Irrawaddy dolphins (Orcaella brevirostris) in Kratie and the threatened eco-tourism industry at stake. © Erika Piñeros
#Cambodia #Mekong #fishing #development #environment #photojournalism
Here, the endangered Irrawaddy dolphins (Orcaella brevirostris) in Kratie and the threatened eco-tourism industry at stake. © Erika Piñeros
#Cambodia #Mekong #fishing #development #environment #photojournalism
“We can’t normalize, tolerate or allow for police violence to be used in every protest, and for press to be the preferred target of the repressive forces each time"
buenosairesherald.com/society/arge...
buenosairesherald.com/society/arge...
Argentine photojournalist in intensive care after being shot with tear gas canister - Buenos Aires Herald
Pablo Grillo required urgent brain surgery to treat the injury sustained in Wednesday’s protests
buenosairesherald.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:49 PM
“We can’t normalize, tolerate or allow for police violence to be used in every protest, and for press to be the preferred target of the repressive forces each time"
buenosairesherald.com/society/arge...
buenosairesherald.com/society/arge...
Giant infrastructure projects along the Mekong wreck ecosystems and force communities to send their children away 🇰🇭
Here for @TheTimes, I document a dying Mekong and its inhabitants whose livelihoods are at further risk.
#Cambodia #Mekong #fishing #development #environment #photojournalism
Here for @TheTimes, I document a dying Mekong and its inhabitants whose livelihoods are at further risk.
#Cambodia #Mekong #fishing #development #environment #photojournalism
March 11, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Giant infrastructure projects along the Mekong wreck ecosystems and force communities to send their children away 🇰🇭
Here for @TheTimes, I document a dying Mekong and its inhabitants whose livelihoods are at further risk.
#Cambodia #Mekong #fishing #development #environment #photojournalism
Here for @TheTimes, I document a dying Mekong and its inhabitants whose livelihoods are at further risk.
#Cambodia #Mekong #fishing #development #environment #photojournalism
A recent event reminded me of this. Worth a read:
"...requiring that men intuit that a "yes" actually means "no," because women lack the wherewithal to know their own minds or to express themselves, revives the pernicious belief that women are perpetually childlike."
reason.com/2019/08/23/i...
"...requiring that men intuit that a "yes" actually means "no," because women lack the wherewithal to know their own minds or to express themselves, revives the pernicious belief that women are perpetually childlike."
reason.com/2019/08/23/i...
'I'm Radioactive'
Until the spring of 2018, Jonathan Kaiman was the Beijing bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times. Today he is living at the home of his parents in Phoenix
reason.com
February 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
A recent event reminded me of this. Worth a read:
"...requiring that men intuit that a "yes" actually means "no," because women lack the wherewithal to know their own minds or to express themselves, revives the pernicious belief that women are perpetually childlike."
reason.com/2019/08/23/i...
"...requiring that men intuit that a "yes" actually means "no," because women lack the wherewithal to know their own minds or to express themselves, revives the pernicious belief that women are perpetually childlike."
reason.com/2019/08/23/i...
Reading between the lines.
An interesting choice of photographs at the Anlong Veng Peace Centre portraying Khmer Rouge leaders, Pol Pot and Ta Mok, also known respectively as 'Brother Number One' and 'The Butcher' for his brutality🇰🇭
#Cambodia #memory #KingdomOfWonder #OnAssignment
An interesting choice of photographs at the Anlong Veng Peace Centre portraying Khmer Rouge leaders, Pol Pot and Ta Mok, also known respectively as 'Brother Number One' and 'The Butcher' for his brutality🇰🇭
#Cambodia #memory #KingdomOfWonder #OnAssignment
February 20, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Reading between the lines.
An interesting choice of photographs at the Anlong Veng Peace Centre portraying Khmer Rouge leaders, Pol Pot and Ta Mok, also known respectively as 'Brother Number One' and 'The Butcher' for his brutality🇰🇭
#Cambodia #memory #KingdomOfWonder #OnAssignment
An interesting choice of photographs at the Anlong Veng Peace Centre portraying Khmer Rouge leaders, Pol Pot and Ta Mok, also known respectively as 'Brother Number One' and 'The Butcher' for his brutality🇰🇭
#Cambodia #memory #KingdomOfWonder #OnAssignment
Don’t Look Away:
Cambodia’s growing environmental crisis 🍃🇰🇭
If you find yourself in Siem Reap, check out the Angkor Photo Festival. Swing by the The Bean Embassy to see this collection of photographs by independent media professionals in Cambodia.
#Cambodia #AngkorPhotoFestival #photojournalism
Cambodia’s growing environmental crisis 🍃🇰🇭
If you find yourself in Siem Reap, check out the Angkor Photo Festival. Swing by the The Bean Embassy to see this collection of photographs by independent media professionals in Cambodia.
#Cambodia #AngkorPhotoFestival #photojournalism
February 15, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Don’t Look Away:
Cambodia’s growing environmental crisis 🍃🇰🇭
If you find yourself in Siem Reap, check out the Angkor Photo Festival. Swing by the The Bean Embassy to see this collection of photographs by independent media professionals in Cambodia.
#Cambodia #AngkorPhotoFestival #photojournalism
Cambodia’s growing environmental crisis 🍃🇰🇭
If you find yourself in Siem Reap, check out the Angkor Photo Festival. Swing by the The Bean Embassy to see this collection of photographs by independent media professionals in Cambodia.
#Cambodia #AngkorPhotoFestival #photojournalism
Reposted by Erika Piñeros
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court.
This order effectively puts the US on the side of war criminals at the expense of victims of grave crimes seeking justice.
Read more: bit.ly/4gxSvuD
This order effectively puts the US on the side of war criminals at the expense of victims of grave crimes seeking justice.
Read more: bit.ly/4gxSvuD
February 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court.
This order effectively puts the US on the side of war criminals at the expense of victims of grave crimes seeking justice.
Read more: bit.ly/4gxSvuD
This order effectively puts the US on the side of war criminals at the expense of victims of grave crimes seeking justice.
Read more: bit.ly/4gxSvuD
Reposted by Erika Piñeros
Wrote this in 2020, about the Chinese plan to take over UN institutions, starting with WHO
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
How China Outsmarted the Trump Administration
While the U.S. is distracted, China is rewriting the rules of the global order.
www.theatlantic.com
January 22, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Wrote this in 2020, about the Chinese plan to take over UN institutions, starting with WHO
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
January 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Reposted by Erika Piñeros
Meta donated $1 million to the inauguration committee of President-elect Donald Trump, the company confirmed.
The donation comes weeks after chief executive Mark Zuckerberg visited his Mar-a-Lago resort as the tech giant seeks to mend fences with the political right.
The donation comes weeks after chief executive Mark Zuckerberg visited his Mar-a-Lago resort as the tech giant seeks to mend fences with the political right.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta donates $1M to Trump inauguration fund
Meta’s donation comes weeks after Mark Zuckerberg met President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, as the Facebook founder seeks to mend ties with the right.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 12, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Meta donated $1 million to the inauguration committee of President-elect Donald Trump, the company confirmed.
The donation comes weeks after chief executive Mark Zuckerberg visited his Mar-a-Lago resort as the tech giant seeks to mend fences with the political right.
The donation comes weeks after chief executive Mark Zuckerberg visited his Mar-a-Lago resort as the tech giant seeks to mend fences with the political right.
December 4, 2024 at 1:37 AM