Benjamin T. Smith
@benjamintsmith7.bsky.social
History Content Provider at University of Warwick. "If Raymond Chandler had written a history of the drug trade, it would read like the Dope"
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Donde estan todos los mexicanos?
👇This
Mexico is the wall.
So, the Southern border of the U.S. is now the (old) border between #Mexico and #Guatemala, or what?
"Mexico will put an extra 10,000 troops on its border"
#thereisNOmilitarization
"Mexico will put an extra 10,000 troops on its border"
#thereisNOmilitarization
February 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
👇This
Immensely enjoyable.
Good morning to everyone who likes seeing Peter Thiel so so so scared ONLY
December 14, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Immensely enjoyable.
RIP MKV. Brilliant historian of modern Mexico. uapress.arizona.edu/book/cultura...
Cultural Politics in Revolution | UAPress
uapress.arizona.edu
December 14, 2024 at 7:23 PM
RIP MKV. Brilliant historian of modern Mexico. uapress.arizona.edu/book/cultura...
Here's a cute cat.
December 13, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Here's a cute cat.
Reposted by Benjamin T. Smith
Three months of war in the Sinaloa Cartel have left 1000+ dead or disappeared, and a city in a kind of humanitarian crisis.
Culiacán is trying to return to normality – but is frequently reminded it lives at the whim of organised crime.
📸 by Jesús Verdugo
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Culiacán is trying to return to normality – but is frequently reminded it lives at the whim of organised crime.
📸 by Jesús Verdugo
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘Mother of all battles’: terror for Mexicans as war rages inside Sinaloa cartel
Violence shows few signs of ending after three months of war between rival factions that have left more than a thousand dead or disappeared
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Three months of war in the Sinaloa Cartel have left 1000+ dead or disappeared, and a city in a kind of humanitarian crisis.
Culiacán is trying to return to normality – but is frequently reminded it lives at the whim of organised crime.
📸 by Jesús Verdugo
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Culiacán is trying to return to normality – but is frequently reminded it lives at the whim of organised crime.
📸 by Jesús Verdugo
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Loved appearing on Vincent Vargas' Borderland Show. Genuinely good fun. great host and great show. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gNN...
The Secret Deals Between Governments and Cartels: Kingpins, Migrants and Cocaine | Borderland #43
YouTube video by IRONCLAD
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December 10, 2024 at 10:33 AM
Loved appearing on Vincent Vargas' Borderland Show. Genuinely good fun. great host and great show. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gNN...
Just finished Jason de León's extraordinary Soldiers and Kings www.amazon.co.uk/Soldiers-Kin.... It is beautifully written, moving, defiant and like Levi Vonk's Border Hacker strangely hopeful.
Amazon.co.uk
www.amazon.co.uk
December 6, 2024 at 11:41 AM
Just finished Jason de León's extraordinary Soldiers and Kings www.amazon.co.uk/Soldiers-Kin.... It is beautifully written, moving, defiant and like Levi Vonk's Border Hacker strangely hopeful.
I, for one, do hope this doesn't start a bout of copycat targeted assassinations of the superwealthy.
UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot in New York City – reports
UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot in New York City – reports
A man wearing a mask reportedly shot Brian Thompson, 50, outside a Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan
The CEO of UnitedHealthcare, one of the the US’s largest health insurers, was reportedly fatally shot in the chest on Wednesday in midtown Manhattan,…
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2024 at 7:24 PM
I, for one, do hope this doesn't start a bout of copycat targeted assassinations of the superwealthy.
Acabo de terminar el libro extraordinario de @dahliabat.bsky.social , Perras de Reserva www.amazon.co.uk/Perras-reser...
Perras de reserva
Buy Perras de reserva by Cerda, Dahlia de la from Amazon's Fiction Books Store. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction.
www.amazon.co.uk
November 25, 2024 at 10:52 AM
Acabo de terminar el libro extraordinario de @dahliabat.bsky.social , Perras de Reserva www.amazon.co.uk/Perras-reser...
Just finished @dahliabat.bsky.social extraordinary Perras de Reserva www.amazon.co.uk/Perras-reser...
Perras de reserva
Buy Perras de reserva by Cerda, Dahlia de la from Amazon's Fiction Books Store. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction.
www.amazon.co.uk
November 25, 2024 at 10:45 AM
Just finished @dahliabat.bsky.social extraordinary Perras de Reserva www.amazon.co.uk/Perras-reser...
Just started Dahlia de la Cerda podcast. Fucking hell, it's really, really good.
November 21, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Just started Dahlia de la Cerda podcast. Fucking hell, it's really, really good.
Donde estan todos los mexicanos?
November 16, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Donde estan todos los mexicanos?