Joshua Collins

Bogota D.C.

Journalist and Photographer at Freelance

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Indigenous lawyer who advised Zapatistas will be president of Mexico’s Supreme Court

3 weeks ago | piratewireservices.com | Joshua Collins

This is our “LATAM Wires” daily newsletter, freshly launched. Signing up will get you flash updates on breaking stories and snapshots of development on big headlines. And it’s free!Judicial elections in Mexico on Sunday yielded mixed results and a low turnout, but they have also resulted in the election of Hugo Aguilar Ortiz, an indigenous human rights lawyer with a long history of representing indigenous and Afro-Mexican communities.
The biggest migration crackdown in the Americas no one is talking about

3 weeks ago | piratewireservices.com | Joshua Collins

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Corrupt Guatemalan Prosecutor levels corruption charges against Colombian corruption investigators

3 weeks ago | piratewireservices.com | Joshua Collins

Guatemala’s Prosecutor’s Office, in a message complete with flexing arm emojis and with an attached video of a prosecutor who has been sanctioned by the European Union and the United States, on Monday demanded the arrest and extradition of two members of Colombia’s government. Curruchiche announced arrest warrants against Colombia's former Defense Minister, and current ambassador to the Vatican, Iván Velásquez Gómez, and Luz Adriana Camargo, the current Attorney General.
Bukele "I don't care if they call me a dictator"

3 weeks ago | piratewireservices.com | Joshua Collins

This is our “LATAM Wires” daily newsletter, freshly launched. Signing up will get you flash updates on breaking stories and snapshots of development on big headlines. And it’s free!Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on Sunday night gave his annual address to the nation surrounded by soldiers. The speech, which occurred amidst rising international criticism of crackdowns on protesters and the press in the country, emphasized the country’s security gains in recent years.
With Trump back in office: Erik Prince is cashing in

3 weeks ago | piratewireservices.com | Joshua Collins

Erik Prince was born to money. He was the air to an auto supply company’s fortune. He used that fortune to build a private mercenary and logistical empire whose primary clients have always been somewhat gullible right-wing politicians. Now with longtime ally Donald Trump back in the White House, Prince has emerged from political exile to re-engage in a long and storied career pitching ideas that allow his various companies to devour large piles of state money, particularly in the Americas.
You’ve been lied to about borders your whole life

1 month ago | 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.
Colombia announces rebel disarmament camps in two separate borderlands

1 month ago | 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.
Maduro celebrates sweeping victory in Venezuela: but few people likely voted

1 month ago | 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.
Chiquita fires thousands in Panama in bid to crush ongoing labor strikes

1 month ago | 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.
Trump’s Budget Bill Just Passed Congress: It's a massive pay-off to ICE

1 month 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.