Roberto Lovato
@robvato.bsky.social
Author of Unforgetting http://bit.ly/2W1XFc3, called a "groundbreaking" memoir by the NY Times. Creative Writing Professor @UNLV. He/him. rlovatoauthor@gmail
PREDICTION: Maria Corina Machado will intensify her role as spearhead of a US invasion of Venezuela, in a deranged mix of domestic politics & the other excuse for war: the "narco" threat. Her violent extremist ally, Juan Guaido, actually has selfies w narco-murderers
October 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
PREDICTION: Maria Corina Machado will intensify her role as spearhead of a US invasion of Venezuela, in a deranged mix of domestic politics & the other excuse for war: the "narco" threat. Her violent extremist ally, Juan Guaido, actually has selfies w narco-murderers
More proof Nobel Peace Prize is simply an instrument of empire: awarding extreme right wing Venezuelan Maria Corina Machado th Nobel Piece Prize. She makes an appearance in this investigative story i wrote about her violent extremist ally, Leopold Lopez foreignpolicy.com/2015/07/27/t...
The Making of Leopoldo López
A closer look at the democratic bona fides of the rock star of Venezuela’s opposition.
foreignpolicy.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
More proof Nobel Peace Prize is simply an instrument of empire: awarding extreme right wing Venezuelan Maria Corina Machado th Nobel Piece Prize. She makes an appearance in this investigative story i wrote about her violent extremist ally, Leopold Lopez foreignpolicy.com/2015/07/27/t...
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"The policies of this administration reinstate an era in which the rights conferred to all people in the United States by the Constitution are subject to a sliding scale of extralegal violability depending on one’s race, ethnicity or assumed immigration status."
Call this fascism Juan Crow.
Call this fascism Juan Crow.
Opinion | Juan Crow Is Back With a Vengeance
www.nytimes.com
July 29, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"The policies of this administration reinstate an era in which the rights conferred to all people in the United States by the Constitution are subject to a sliding scale of extralegal violability depending on one’s race, ethnicity or assumed immigration status."
Call this fascism Juan Crow.
Call this fascism Juan Crow.
Fearlessness is the point.
My latest for @thenation.com: An Urgent Message From the Streets of Los Angeles: “Nos tienen miedo porque no tenemos miedo” (They fear us because we do not fear them).
bit.ly/4jY2j2K
My latest for @thenation.com: An Urgent Message From the Streets of Los Angeles: “Nos tienen miedo porque no tenemos miedo” (They fear us because we do not fear them).
bit.ly/4jY2j2K
An Urgent Message From the Streets of Los Angeles
“Nos tienen miedo porque no tenemos miedo” (They fear us because we do not fear them).
bit.ly
June 18, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Fearlessness is the point.
My latest for @thenation.com: An Urgent Message From the Streets of Los Angeles: “Nos tienen miedo porque no tenemos miedo” (They fear us because we do not fear them).
bit.ly/4jY2j2K
My latest for @thenation.com: An Urgent Message From the Streets of Los Angeles: “Nos tienen miedo porque no tenemos miedo” (They fear us because we do not fear them).
bit.ly/4jY2j2K
BREAKING:Nayib Bukele's Atty General’s may b preparing to arrest members of @_elfaro_,El Salvador's leading news org, for exposing Bukele's negotiations w gangs. Editor-in-chief Óscar Martínez: “Any capture or raid on our homes will be for having done journalism,”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQSp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQSp...
El Faro bajo ataque tras las revelaciones de Charli
YouTube video by El Faro
www.youtube.com
May 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
BREAKING:Nayib Bukele's Atty General’s may b preparing to arrest members of @_elfaro_,El Salvador's leading news org, for exposing Bukele's negotiations w gangs. Editor-in-chief Óscar Martínez: “Any capture or raid on our homes will be for having done journalism,”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQSp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQSp...
Local student (@UNLV English, perhaps?) using using their poetic powers to deliver one of the more original placards at the massive, loud, animadidisimo #MayDay2025 protest in downtown as Vegas.
May 2, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Local student (@UNLV English, perhaps?) using using their poetic powers to deliver one of the more original placards at the massive, loud, animadidisimo #MayDay2025 protest in downtown as Vegas.
Yours truly dispelling Trump"s myths about MS13 & Kilmar Abrego Garcia's alleged gang tattoos in today's @washingtonpost
Kilmar Abrego García’s tattoos alone do not prove MS-13 membership, experts say
Experts are divided over whether knuckle tattoos highlighted by President Trump suggest the wrongly deported man may be associated with MS-13.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Yours truly dispelling Trump"s myths about MS13 & Kilmar Abrego Garcia's alleged gang tattoos in today's @washingtonpost
This marks an major escalation of the fascist turn: FBI arresting immigration judge.
Breaking news: FBI Director Kash Patel said that the bureau arrested a Milwaukee judge and charged her with obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week.
FBI arrests Wisconsin judge on charges of obstructing immigrant arrest
Judge Hannah Dugan’s arrest is the first known instance of the Trump administration charging a local official with interfering on immigration enforcement.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This marks an major escalation of the fascist turn: FBI arresting immigration judge.
Historically-proven antidote to fascism and other authoritarian monstrosities: the general strike:
newrepublic.com/article/1933...
newrepublic.com/article/1933...
Is America Pissed Off Enough at Trump and Musk for a General Strike?
The United States hasn’t seen such a massive labor action in 78 years. But the oligarchic wreckage of this administration is fueling multiple movements toward that goal.
newrepublic.com
April 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Historically-proven antidote to fascism and other authoritarian monstrosities: the general strike:
newrepublic.com/article/1933...
newrepublic.com/article/1933...
I am one of the experts interviewed by @CBSNews for this story dispelling President Trump's unfounded claims as it Kilmar Abrego Garcia's tattoos👇
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-c...
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-c...
Experts cast doubt on Trump's claim that Abrego Garcia's finger tattoos prove MS-13 membership
Gang experts and researchers said that while tattoos could carry gang-related meaning, they aren't enough to prove gang membership.
www.cbsnews.com
April 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I am one of the experts interviewed by @CBSNews for this story dispelling President Trump's unfounded claims as it Kilmar Abrego Garcia's tattoos👇
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-c...
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-c...
Reposted by Roberto Lovato
Salvadoran President Claims He Lacks Humanity To Return Wrongly Deported Man
Salvadoran President Claims He Lacks Humanity To Return Wrongly Deported Man
WASHINGTON—During a visit with President Donald Trump at the White House, El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele claimed Monday that he “lacks the humanity” to return wrongly deported legal U.S. residen...
theonion.com
April 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Salvadoran President Claims He Lacks Humanity To Return Wrongly Deported Man
Read Atty Gen Bondi's release of information & ask yourself, "What proof is there of Kilmar's "gang affiliation?" I've been an expert witness in over 70 gang immigration & murder cases,& have never seen even the most desperate & sloppy lawyers offer such shoddy evidence.
April 17, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Read Atty Gen Bondi's release of information & ask yourself, "What proof is there of Kilmar's "gang affiliation?" I've been an expert witness in over 70 gang immigration & murder cases,& have never seen even the most desperate & sloppy lawyers offer such shoddy evidence.
Online fascist farm 4Chan may soon see its death by a few strategically-placed hacks. And some of its users may be exposed
4Chan was hacked, its source code was leaked, admin emails were leaked, AND a lot of registered users used their real names and .edu email addresses. Lotta CHUDs getting exposed to sunlight today.
April 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Online fascist farm 4Chan may soon see its death by a few strategically-placed hacks. And some of its users may be exposed
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It's not just Trump learning from Bukele. Salvadorans and their history of struggle should reveal to US leftists the outlines of the broad antifascist front that will always be the best antidote to the reactionary right, writes @robvato.bsky.social.
The Deadly Seriousness Behind Trump and Bukele’s “Joke”
The Trump administration is learning dangerous lessons from El Salvador’s president, but there’s also much that the US left can learn from Salvadoran antifascists.
www.thenation.com
April 14, 2025 at 10:05 PM
It's not just Trump learning from Bukele. Salvadorans and their history of struggle should reveal to US leftists the outlines of the broad antifascist front that will always be the best antidote to the reactionary right, writes @robvato.bsky.social.
Reposted by Roberto Lovato
Salvadoran President Claims He Lacks Humanity To Return Wrongly Deported Man
Salvadoran President Claims He Lacks Humanity To Return Wrongly Deported Man
WASHINGTON—During a visit with President Donald Trump at the White House, El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele claimed Monday that he “lacks the humanity” to return wrongly deported legal U.S. residen...
theonion.com
April 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Salvadoran President Claims He Lacks Humanity To Return Wrongly Deported Man
I just wrote this piece for @thenation.com about today's White House spectacle and what Trump and the U.S. are learning from Bukele and what we can learn from the long history of anti-fascist struggle in El Salvador. bit.ly/4cxgR73
The Deadly Seriousness Behind Trump and Bukele’s “Joke”
The Trump administration is learning dangerous lessons from El Salvador’s president, but there’s also much that the US left can learn from Salvadoran antifascists.
bit.ly
April 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I just wrote this piece for @thenation.com about today's White House spectacle and what Trump and the U.S. are learning from Bukele and what we can learn from the long history of anti-fascist struggle in El Salvador. bit.ly/4cxgR73
In addition to lauding Mario Vargas Llosa's literary accomplishments, a just history of the late writer would at least mention his career as reactionary, virulent Indian- hating racist.
BREAKING: Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters for many decades, has died, his son said Sunday. He was 89.
Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate, dies at 89
Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters for many decades, has died, his son said Sunday. He was 89.
bit.ly
April 14, 2025 at 1:52 AM
In addition to lauding Mario Vargas Llosa's literary accomplishments, a just history of the late writer would at least mention his career as reactionary, virulent Indian- hating racist.
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At The Writers Grotto, we celebrate DIVERSITY!
Join us TONIGHT to celebrate our 30th anniversary as we reflect on three decades of empowering diverse voices.
Tickets are on sale now at writersgrotto.org -- we hope to see you tonight, from 6 to 10 PM, at Verdi Club in San Francisco!
Join us TONIGHT to celebrate our 30th anniversary as we reflect on three decades of empowering diverse voices.
Tickets are on sale now at writersgrotto.org -- we hope to see you tonight, from 6 to 10 PM, at Verdi Club in San Francisco!
March 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
At The Writers Grotto, we celebrate DIVERSITY!
Join us TONIGHT to celebrate our 30th anniversary as we reflect on three decades of empowering diverse voices.
Tickets are on sale now at writersgrotto.org -- we hope to see you tonight, from 6 to 10 PM, at Verdi Club in San Francisco!
Join us TONIGHT to celebrate our 30th anniversary as we reflect on three decades of empowering diverse voices.
Tickets are on sale now at writersgrotto.org -- we hope to see you tonight, from 6 to 10 PM, at Verdi Club in San Francisco!
I just wrote this piece in @thenation about a cache of documents confirming CIA surveillance, infiltration & disruption in Latinx communities. @RussContreras broke the story last week.
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
The CIA Illegally Spied on Puerto Rican and Mexican American Activists for Decades
And is probably still at it. As newly released classified documents confirm activists’ long-held suspicions, the disclosures should also alert us to current dangers.
www.thenation.com
January 16, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I just wrote this piece in @thenation about a cache of documents confirming CIA surveillance, infiltration & disruption in Latinx communities. @RussContreras broke the story last week.
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
Jimmy Carter's "human rights legacy" including his support of the civil war era Salvadoran military responsible for murdering approx 80,000 men, women, children (entire towns of them), nuns & priests like Saint Oscar Romero who asked Carter to stop lethal aid.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Jimmy Carter's Dark Legacy in El Salvador
Carter’s administration rejected Saint Óscar Romero’s pleas not to provide military aid to the Salvadoran junta before he was assassinated.
www.rollingstone.com
January 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Jimmy Carter's "human rights legacy" including his support of the civil war era Salvadoran military responsible for murdering approx 80,000 men, women, children (entire towns of them), nuns & priests like Saint Oscar Romero who asked Carter to stop lethal aid.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...