Joshua Collins
Journalist and Photographer at Freelance
Editor at Pirate Wire Services
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piratewireservices.com | Joshua Collins
This feature is an installation of The Ship’s Log, for paid PWS subscribers. The Logs are behind-the-scenes notes from our crew’s work as freelance journalists in an unpredictable region. If you’re a subscriber, thank you, and read on! If not, please consider supporting our work for just $5/monthThis article was originally published at Vox Ummah, a Muslim publication focused on perspectives from the Global South. They have been kind enough to allow PWS to reprint it here.
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piratewireservices.com | Joshua Collins
Today’s edition of LATAM Daily Wires includes reporting by Adriaan Alsema of our sister org Colombia Reports. Colombia’s government and two FARC dissident groups have agreed to create at three temporary locations for rebel fighters who wish to take part in demobilization, disarmament, and reintegration programs.
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piratewireservices.com | Joshua Collins
Venezuela held parliamentary and local elections on Sunday. Nicolás Maduro's United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) announced that it had achieved a supermajority in the National Assembly and 23 out of 24 governorships. The country’s National Electoral Council (CNE), which is controlled and staffed by PSUV, also announced the creation of a new state in Guayana Esequiba, a territory Maduro falsely claims belongs to Venezuela.
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piratewireservices.com | Joshua Collins
U.S. firm Chiquita has a checkered history in Latin America. On Thursday, it added to a long legacy of anti-labor actions in Latin America by firing more than 5,000 banana plantation workers as part of attempts to crush a nearly month-long strike that has encompassed multiple labor sectors in Panama.
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2 weeks ago |
piratewireservices.com | Joshua Collins
When Donald Trump returned to office he inherited the most powerful domestic surveillance capabilities on the planet, a U.S. presidency with more than it has ever possessed, and over a quarter of million employees at the — which includes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He is using all of those tools, as well as new powers he invents or seizes along the way, to fulfill his campaign promises to deport millions of migrants.
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