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Maria I. Puerta Riera 🌻 @maripuerta.com · Jul 17

Coming soon: Public Diplomacy in Authoritarian Regimes by Carola Richter & Vedat Demir (Editors):

Chapter 9: Venezuela: From Oil Diplomacy to Disinformation Pawn by Maria Puerta Riera
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Public Diplomacy in Authoritarian Regimes|Hardcover

This book offers a timely exploration of how authoritarian states communicate with foreign publics, blending strategies of attraction, persuasion, manipulation, and control. As authoritarian regimes g...

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Maria I. Puerta Riera 🌻 @maripuerta.com · 7h

These are the people punishing universities and denying their academic freedom, by accusing them of 'anti-semitism'
politi.co/4onLnFu via @politico

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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Maria I. Puerta Riera 🌻 @maripuerta.com · 7h

apnews.com/article/trum... revokes visas for 6 foreigners over Charlie Kirk-related speech

US revokes visas for 6 foreigners over Charlie Kirk-related speech

The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners deemed by U.S. officials to have made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last m...

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Maria I. Puerta Riera 🌻 @maripuerta.com · 13h

Trump welcomes Argentina's Javier Milei as US extends $20 billion lifeline

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Trump welcomes Argentina's Javier Milei as US extends $20 billion lifeline

Argentina’s libertarian leader is sparing no praise for the U.S. president ahead of his first White House meeting with Donald Trump.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 15h

I seem to recall that it was the biggest 1st Amendment attack in American history when the Biden admin alerted social media companies to some content and said "hey does this violate your policies?" Will Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and (lol) CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss call this out?

Tweet from Pam Bondi:

Today following outreach from
@thejusticedept
, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target
@ICEgov
agents in Chicago.

The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Maria I. Puerta Riera 🌻 @maripuerta.com · 13h

Supreme Court takes up Republican attack on Voting Rights Act in case over Black representation

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Supreme Court takes up Republican attack on Voting Rights Act in case over Black representation

A Republican attack on a core provision of the Voting Rights Act that's designed to protect racial minorities comes to the Supreme Court this week, more than a decade after the justices knocked out an...

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Latinoamérica21 @latinoamerica21.bsky.social · 13h

🇵🇪 ¿Qué pasó en #Perú con Dina Boluarte ? ¿En qué contexto político el Congreso aprobó su "incapacidad moral permanente"?

🎙️ En #MiradaSemanal analizamos esta nueva destitución presidencial con Manuel Alcántara, @maripuerta.com y la conducción de Xavier Rodríguez Franco.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
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Maria I. Puerta Riera 🌻 @maripuerta.com · 13h

Israel to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for fragile ceasefire

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Israel to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for fragile ceasefire

U.S. President Donald Trump says wants back dead hostages held in Gaza. The tenuous ceasefire in the two-year Israel-Hamas war is being tested as complex issues remain a day after widespread jubilatio...

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Maria I. Puerta Riera 🌻 @maripuerta.com · 13h

US strikes another boat accused of carrying drugs in waters off Venezuela, killing 6, Trump says

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US strikes another boat accused of carrying drugs in waters off Venezuela, killing 6, Trump says

President Donald Trump says the U.S. has struck another small boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela.

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Latinoamérica21 @latinoamerica21.bsky.social · 18h

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La intrincada ruta hacia la democracia en Venezuela: el Nobel de la Paz de Maria Corina Machado - Latinoamérica 21

Análisis L21 | La intrincada ruta hacia la democracia en Venezuela: el Nobel de la Paz de Maria Corina Machado.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll miss @marcmaron.bsky.social’s voice, but I hope his legacy of deep conversation and connection will continue. Listen to my conversation with Marc on the final episode of the WTF podcast.

Episode 1686 - Barack Obama — WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

For the final episode of WTF, Marc travels to Washington, DC for another conversation with the most significant guest in the show’s history. Former President Barack Obama welcomes Marc into his o...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 1d

Under federal law, registered foreign nationals must carry proof of registration with them at all times. But prior to a second Trump administration, it was rarely enforced.

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 1d

Former President Barack Obama described the current “politicization of the military” in Chicago and elsewhere as “a deliberate end run” around established law, arguing President Donald Trump has intentionally weakened the nation’s institutional guardrails.

Former President Barack Obama decries ‘politicization of the military’ by President Donald Trump

Former President Barack Obama talked about whether America had descended into fascism or authoritarianism on the podcast “WTF,” hosted by standup comedian and actor Marc Maron.

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 1d

Sandy Alomar Sr., an All-Star infielder during his playing days in the 1960s and ’70s who went on to coach in the majors and manage in his native Puerto Rico, has died. He was 81.

Sandy Alomar Sr., the former White Sox infielder and Cubs coach, dies at 81

Sandy Alomar Sr. managed both of his sons, All-Star catcher Sandy Alomar Jr. and Hall of Fame second baseman Roberto Alomar, in winter ball and the minors.

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el Nuevo Herald @elnuevoherald.com · 1d

Universidades y lideres políticos de Miami festejan el premio Nobel a la opositora venezolana.

Líderes de Miami celebran Premio Nobel de Machado como ‘victoria para el hemisferio’

Universidades y lideres políticos de Miami festejan el premio Nobel a la opositora venezolana.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Latinoamérica21 @latinoamerica21.bsky.social · 1d

🏅 El #Nobel a Corina Machado reconoce una década de resistencia democrática frente al #autoritarismo de #Maduro.

🤔 ¿Podrá este reconocimiento traducirse en presión efectiva para una transición democrática en #Venezuela 🇻🇪?

✍️ @maripuerta.com

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https://latinoamerica21.com/es/la-intrincada-ruta-hacia-la-democracia-en-venezuela-el-nobel-de-la-paz-de-maria-corina-machado/

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Maria I. Puerta Riera 🌻 @maripuerta.com · 2d

Why Blowing Up Venezuelan Boats Won’t Stop the Flow of Drugs www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Why Blowing Up Venezuelan Boats Won’t Stop the Flow of Drugs

President Trump says striking drug traffickers from Venezuela will prevent deadly drugs from reaching the United States. But the major smuggling routes are elsewhere.

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Maria I. Puerta Riera 🌻 @maripuerta.com · 2d

Viktor Orban’s ‘Propaganda State’ Is Starting to Show Cracks www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/w...

Viktor Orban’s ‘Propaganda State’ Is Starting to Show Cracks

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Maria I. Puerta Riera 🌻 @maripuerta.com · 2d

The president's net approval rating is -16%, down 0.7 points since last week.
39% approve, 56% disapprove, 4% not sure
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Maria I. Puerta Riera 🌻 @maripuerta.com · 3d

Un premio a la resistencia del pueblo venezolano, Camarada.

Maria I. Puerta Riera 🌻 @maripuerta.com · 3d

“These ICE raids are reminiscent of the Fugitive Slave Act, when the U.S. Marshals would hunt down and kidnap Black Americans,”
www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Bynum Demands End to ICE Raids After U.S. Citizen Allegedly Abducted by Masked Agents

Bynum compares ICE’s conduct to U.S. Marshals hunting down Black Americans under the Fugitive Slave Act.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 4d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

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Maria I. Puerta Riera 🌻 @maripuerta.com · 4d

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Unusual Bets on Nobel Peace Prize Winner Prompt Probe Into Leaks

The Norwegian officials in charge of awarding the Nobel Peace Prize are investigating information that online bets on this year’s recipient surged overnight, suggesting a potential leak of information...

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