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Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean studies professor @jorgecuellar.bsky.social discusses how Salvadorans regard Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, via the @bostonglobe.com.
Is Bukele still El Salvador’s savior? Not for all abroad - The Boston Globe
An über popular president once hailed as a bold reformer by Salvadorans in the United States is now facing backlash for aligning himself too closely with Trump.
www.bostonglobe.com
April 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean studies professor @jorgecuellar.bsky.social discusses how Salvadorans regard Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, via the @bostonglobe.com.
Isthmic Solidarity Project is a popular educational project geared towards the Central American diaspora in the imperial core with the goal of building solidarity with communities in Central America.
Learn more and apply to become a member of the project: isthmic.org/member-appli...
[español 👇]
Learn more and apply to become a member of the project: isthmic.org/member-appli...
[español 👇]
July 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Isthmic Solidarity Project is a popular educational project geared towards the Central American diaspora in the imperial core with the goal of building solidarity with communities in Central America.
Learn more and apply to become a member of the project: isthmic.org/member-appli...
[español 👇]
Learn more and apply to become a member of the project: isthmic.org/member-appli...
[español 👇]
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BREAKING: Israeli settlers have killed a young Palestinian-American.
He was visiting from Florida, where he helped run his family ice cream shop.
Comes days after we asked senators if they knew how many Americans have been killed in Palestine & Lebanon since 10/7.
None did.
He is now the 7th.
He was visiting from Florida, where he helped run his family ice cream shop.
Comes days after we asked senators if they knew how many Americans have been killed in Palestine & Lebanon since 10/7.
None did.
He is now the 7th.
BREAKING: Israeli Settlers Kill American Citizen in Occupied West Bank, Family Says
Sayfollah Musallet was visiting his family in the village of Al-Mazra'a ash-Sharqiya when settlers allegedly beat him unconscious and blocked an ambulance from reaching him for hours.
zeteo.com
July 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
BREAKING: Israeli settlers have killed a young Palestinian-American.
He was visiting from Florida, where he helped run his family ice cream shop.
Comes days after we asked senators if they knew how many Americans have been killed in Palestine & Lebanon since 10/7.
None did.
He is now the 7th.
He was visiting from Florida, where he helped run his family ice cream shop.
Comes days after we asked senators if they knew how many Americans have been killed in Palestine & Lebanon since 10/7.
None did.
He is now the 7th.
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November 7, 2023 — Kids in Gaza host a press conference, in English, to beg the world for life.
“We come now to shout and invite you to protect us; we want to live, we want peace…we want to live as the other children live.”
At the time, Israel forces had killed over 4,200 kids like these.
“We come now to shout and invite you to protect us; we want to live, we want peace…we want to live as the other children live.”
At the time, Israel forces had killed over 4,200 kids like these.
July 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
November 7, 2023 — Kids in Gaza host a press conference, in English, to beg the world for life.
“We come now to shout and invite you to protect us; we want to live, we want peace…we want to live as the other children live.”
At the time, Israel forces had killed over 4,200 kids like these.
“We come now to shout and invite you to protect us; we want to live, we want peace…we want to live as the other children live.”
At the time, Israel forces had killed over 4,200 kids like these.
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Israel has just killed my neighbor Bilal Abul-Louz in Beit Lahia.
July 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Israel has just killed my neighbor Bilal Abul-Louz in Beit Lahia.
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BREAKING: Documents filed in court today assert that officials from El Salvador told the United Nations that it "facilitated the use of the Salvadoran prison infrastructure" by the U.S. but that "the jurisdiction and legal responsibility for these persons lie exclusively with the" U.S.
July 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
BREAKING: Documents filed in court today assert that officials from El Salvador told the United Nations that it "facilitated the use of the Salvadoran prison infrastructure" by the U.S. but that "the jurisdiction and legal responsibility for these persons lie exclusively with the" U.S.
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This feels like a ✨prime✨ week to close the book on Amazon.
July 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
This feels like a ✨prime✨ week to close the book on Amazon.
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Today DHS terminated TPS for Honduras and Nicaragua. Late last month, the agency terminated TPS for Haiti and before that, Venezuela. I hope y'all never, ever forget that Kristi Noem deported people to their deaths.
July 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Today DHS terminated TPS for Honduras and Nicaragua. Late last month, the agency terminated TPS for Haiti and before that, Venezuela. I hope y'all never, ever forget that Kristi Noem deported people to their deaths.
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the thing i’m most proud of in this world is being the daughter of a woman who came to this country on foot from Central America, at the age of 21 and all on her own. she suffered homelessness and cruelty and pain to give me a better life whenever i’d come to exist. they will never take this from me
July 4, 2025 at 12:26 AM
the thing i’m most proud of in this world is being the daughter of a woman who came to this country on foot from Central America, at the age of 21 and all on her own. she suffered homelessness and cruelty and pain to give me a better life whenever i’d come to exist. they will never take this from me
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Gaza has become a funeral home
but there are no seats, no mourners,
no bodies. In the caskets are nothing
but what remained of the
dead’s clothes,
and on the wall is a clock
that has not moved for twenty-one months.
but there are no seats, no mourners,
no bodies. In the caskets are nothing
but what remained of the
dead’s clothes,
and on the wall is a clock
that has not moved for twenty-one months.
July 7, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Gaza has become a funeral home
but there are no seats, no mourners,
no bodies. In the caskets are nothing
but what remained of the
dead’s clothes,
and on the wall is a clock
that has not moved for twenty-one months.
but there are no seats, no mourners,
no bodies. In the caskets are nothing
but what remained of the
dead’s clothes,
and on the wall is a clock
that has not moved for twenty-one months.
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July 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Aplica para volverte miembr@ del Proyecto Solidario Ístmico antes del 29 de julio!
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#centroamerica #centralamerica
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Are you from the Central American isthmus interested in popular histories, research, and knowledge?
Apply to become a member of the Isthmic Solidarity Project by July 29!
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#centralamerica #centroamerica
Apply to become a member of the Isthmic Solidarity Project by July 29!
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#centralamerica #centroamerica
Join ISP! — Isthmic Solidarity Project
isthmic.org
July 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Are you from the Central American isthmus interested in popular histories, research, and knowledge?
Apply to become a member of the Isthmic Solidarity Project by July 29!
Learn more about the application and ISP: isthmic.org/member-appli...
#centralamerica #centroamerica
Apply to become a member of the Isthmic Solidarity Project by July 29!
Learn more about the application and ISP: isthmic.org/member-appli...
#centralamerica #centroamerica
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Robbing millions of low-income Americans of health care and massively increasing the funding of ICE so the agency can better operate as a militia that kidnaps immigrants off the streets of Los Angeles is a very American story.
June 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Robbing millions of low-income Americans of health care and massively increasing the funding of ICE so the agency can better operate as a militia that kidnaps immigrants off the streets of Los Angeles is a very American story.
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Salvadoran prisons are black boxes where reports of systematic torture have emerged, disease proliferates, and 375 people have died in three years. They are a focal point of corruption and were the stage of Bukele’s 2019-2022 pact with gangs. #CentralAmericaInMinutes elfaro.net/en/202505/ef...
Podcast: For a Portrait of Bukele, Look to His Prisons
<p>Salvadoran prisons are black boxes where reports of systematic torture have emerged, disease proliferates and medical care is denied, and at least 375 people have died in custody. They are a focal ...
elfaro.net
April 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Salvadoran prisons are black boxes where reports of systematic torture have emerged, disease proliferates, and 375 people have died in three years. They are a focal point of corruption and were the stage of Bukele’s 2019-2022 pact with gangs. #CentralAmericaInMinutes elfaro.net/en/202505/ef...
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"Nuestra herencia es luchando"
Excerpt from my piece in Provecho Magazine, Issue 2.
Excerpt from my piece in Provecho Magazine, Issue 2.
February 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
"Nuestra herencia es luchando"
Excerpt from my piece in Provecho Magazine, Issue 2.
Excerpt from my piece in Provecho Magazine, Issue 2.
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With each new piece of writing I am testing my vulnerability. My thanks to @cetracey.bsky.social for being a wonderful editor.
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2023/10/16/s...
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2023/10/16/s...
October 16, 2023 at 4:47 PM
With each new piece of writing I am testing my vulnerability. My thanks to @cetracey.bsky.social for being a wonderful editor.
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2023/10/16/s...
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2023/10/16/s...
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Excited to share this CFP for a Black Central Américas edited volume. Please send along your abstracts.
Emocionada por compartir esta convocatoria para el volumen editado, Black Central Américas. Por favor envíen sus propuestas.
kayshacorinealdi.com/black-centra...
Emocionada por compartir esta convocatoria para el volumen editado, Black Central Américas. Por favor envíen sus propuestas.
kayshacorinealdi.com/black-centra...
Black Central Américas
Black Central América(s): Ebbs and Flows of Hemispheric Blackness Editors: Kaysha Corinealdi, Natasha Gordon-Chipembere, Paul Joseph López Oro, and Nicole D. Ramsey Image of mural at Univer…
kayshacorinealdi.com
February 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Excited to share this CFP for a Black Central Américas edited volume. Please send along your abstracts.
Emocionada por compartir esta convocatoria para el volumen editado, Black Central Américas. Por favor envíen sus propuestas.
kayshacorinealdi.com/black-centra...
Emocionada por compartir esta convocatoria para el volumen editado, Black Central Américas. Por favor envíen sus propuestas.
kayshacorinealdi.com/black-centra...
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Central Americans when they enter the group chat.
November 18, 2023 at 5:37 PM
Central Americans when they enter the group chat.
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•berta cáceres•2021•
" Eles acreditaram que a impunidade é eterna, eles estão errados. Os povos sabem fazer justiça. "
" Eles acreditaram que a impunidade é eterna, eles estão errados. Os povos sabem fazer justiça. "
November 29, 2024 at 11:26 PM
•berta cáceres•2021•
" Eles acreditaram que a impunidade é eterna, eles estão errados. Os povos sabem fazer justiça. "
" Eles acreditaram que a impunidade é eterna, eles estão errados. Os povos sabem fazer justiça. "
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For the past year, @propublica.org has been reporting on the toll when a city "sweeps" an encampment. We handed out cards so folks could write in their own words what it meant to have their belongings trashed.
We're publishing dozens of those stories here:
projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...
We're publishing dozens of those stories here:
projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...
“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps
Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...
projects.propublica.org
December 27, 2024 at 1:39 PM
For the past year, @propublica.org has been reporting on the toll when a city "sweeps" an encampment. We handed out cards so folks could write in their own words what it meant to have their belongings trashed.
We're publishing dozens of those stories here:
projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...
We're publishing dozens of those stories here:
projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...
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For those not paying attention to El Salvador now might be a good time to start. What has Bukele done that Musk says "needs to happen" in the US: Suspension of due process, total militarization of the country, mass arbitrary imprisonment, mass torture and death in custody...
January 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
For those not paying attention to El Salvador now might be a good time to start. What has Bukele done that Musk says "needs to happen" in the US: Suspension of due process, total militarization of the country, mass arbitrary imprisonment, mass torture and death in custody...
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Historic Salvadoran environmentalist Vidalina Morales speaks plainly about the Bukele administration’s plans to revoke the country’s ban on metallic mining: “What does that lead to? To more criminalization and more death,” she says. elfaro.net/en/202412/el...
“If mining returns to El Salvador, we will face more criminalization and death”
elfaro.net
December 4, 2024 at 11:39 PM
Historic Salvadoran environmentalist Vidalina Morales speaks plainly about the Bukele administration’s plans to revoke the country’s ban on metallic mining: “What does that lead to? To more criminalization and more death,” she says. elfaro.net/en/202412/el...
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“Bukele’s announcement that El Salvador would incarcerate U.S. citizens illustrates how anti-immigrant rhetoric serves to expand state violence to non-migrants…[confirming] that defending immigrants’ rights is a fight for everyone’s rights.” Strong message by CISPES et al. cispes.org/article/reli...
Religious, Human Rights Defense, and International Solidarity Groups Reject Trump-Bukele Alliance to Criminalize Migrants & Offshore U.S. Prisons | CISPES: Committee in Solidarity with the People of E...
Read the full statement here
cispes.org
February 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
“Bukele’s announcement that El Salvador would incarcerate U.S. citizens illustrates how anti-immigrant rhetoric serves to expand state violence to non-migrants…[confirming] that defending immigrants’ rights is a fight for everyone’s rights.” Strong message by CISPES et al. cispes.org/article/reli...
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So, back in the 70's and 80's there were a number of campus activist groups: CISPES, CUSLAR, Amnesty International -- trying to get the US to stop backing fascist regimes in South & Central America by writing letters to congresspeople, educating fellow students, holding peaceful demonstrations. 1/N🧵
November 30, 2024 at 9:31 PM
So, back in the 70's and 80's there were a number of campus activist groups: CISPES, CUSLAR, Amnesty International -- trying to get the US to stop backing fascist regimes in South & Central America by writing letters to congresspeople, educating fellow students, holding peaceful demonstrations. 1/N🧵