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Juan Pablo Álvarez
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London-based economist working for in financial communications. Left the blue-bird when it went tawdry. Draghierite.

See my blog at www.jpalvarez.co.uk
AP banned from covering the Oval Office for not using “Gulf of America” in its articles.

That’s dictatorship of political correctness. It’s woke.

“We will hold lies accountable” says the Oval Office spokesperson.

They are just nuts.
accountable.ml
February 13, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Trump just revoked the Temporary Protected Status of 600k Venezuelans living in the US.

That is outrageous, miserable, despicable, an insult to the entire Latin American world.

They do not have where to go. Some of them can’t even get a passport!
January 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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January 26, 2025 at 11:22 PM
With a single tweet, Gustavo Petro, the President of Colombia, has done more against imperialism than >20 years of Chavismo.

Maybe Chavistas in Venezuela should take note and get the hell out of Miraflores.
January 27, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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NEW: Why not calling a Nazi salute a Nazi salute puts us in a whole new place of danger. We have to call spades spades or what else is there?
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Seig heil Tesla
Yes, you did see what you think you saw. Here's an idea, let's call a Nazi salute a Nazi salute.
open.substack.com
January 26, 2025 at 9:36 AM
I am currently reading Camus’ articles written while working for La Résistance during WWII.

I highly recommend them to understand what is at stake in Washington, now.
January 27, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I hope Trump’s radicalism scares European voters away.

Let’s see the unraveling of the American democracy from the tranquility of bureaucratic Brussels.

And let’s just get back into business, democratically.
January 27, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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I expect a massive wave of sympathy for Colombia in Latin America, as there is for Denmark in Europe

www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Trump retaliates against Colombia after it refuses deportation flights
Trump announces steep tariffs and immediately revokes visas of Colombian officials after the nation’s president says his country will not accept U.S. deportation flights.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
We need a serious, democratic political elite to address the issues of immigration, rising public debt, and sluggish growth, to prevent populists like Javier Milei from exploiting them.

I can’t bear him leading anything else but a cult —yesterday he openly claimed gays are pedophiles!
January 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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NYT: An unpaid group of billionaires, tech executives and some disciples of Peter Thiel, a powerful Republican donor, are preparing to take up unofficial positions in the U.S. government in the name of cost-cutting. Zero public disclosure so far about the work. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/u...
Inside Elon Musk’s Plan for DOGE to Slash Government Costs
Mr. Musk has turned to Silicon Valley to help recruit executives who will take up unofficial positions across the federal government.
www.nytimes.com
January 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Colombia’s Alvaro Uribe calls for a multinational military force to intervene Venezuela.

The idea isn’t new—Machado herself advocated for it before rising as candidate.

Yet, it would require a level of a cooperation rarely seen among Latin American countries.

At least not since, well, Bolivar.
January 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
This servitude towards Trump is the closest I've seen to a monarchy – and I live in Britain.
January 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
This would be a great news for Canada and the free world: a reliable technocrat offering an alternative to the madness south of the Great Lakes.
January 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The only memorable thing in this Mar-a-Lago-madness is that Ms Meloni secured the liberation of Cecilia Sala ahead of the Italian court decision on the extradition of the Iranian smuggler.

How did she managed? What did she offered in return?

Or was it just a perk of being one of Trump’s cronies?
January 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
My sole motivation to keep blueskying is to stop that idiotic entrepreneur from interfering in European affairs.

Anyway, how’s your day going, you tyrannical liberals?
January 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Cecilia Sala, a young, fearless Italian journalist, has been arrested in Tehran.

Is she a leverage in a broader negotiation?

Tehran is a house of cards—its influence in Lebanon and Syria is gone, and Yemen may follow.

I hope she’s freed soon!
December 27, 2024 at 1:27 PM