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Joshua Collins
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Apr 25, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Yesterday morning, Juan Guaidó arrived to Bogotá uninvited, ahead of a Venezuelan opposition conference organized by 🇨🇴 President Gustavo Petro

Now he is in Miami after being "expelled" according to Colombia's Foreign Ministry

What happened in between is a little confusing:🧵 Image Yesterday morning, Guaidó announced his presence in Colombia. He crossed the border informally "arriving the way millions have, on foot" according to his statement

Bloomberg reported Petro has known about the trip for 2 weeks according to admin sources
Feb 23, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
New "The US military should invade México because Fentanyl" take just dropped in the Republican primaries

I dont even know where to start with the millions of problems with this idea. I doubt Mr Ramaswamy has thought this through

Lets start tho: 🧵 1) So....declare war on México?

Yeah dude. No. Just no

Problem #2

The Colombian governnent tried this for decades. Cocaine production continúes to hit record highs still every year

You cant bomb your way out of production
May 7, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
🧵 on the "armed strike" happening in Colombia. I wanted to do an explainer for those abroad to explain the context

Right wing narco group AGC (Gaitan Self Defense forces of Colombia) have prohibited movement and economic activity in most of the northwest of the country (1) First, "armed strikes" by armed groups here happen a lot, as do "social cleansings" where AGs exile or murder "undesirables": usually that means homeless people, LGBT, street criminals etc etc

Usually the larger Colombian populace doesnt care much cause those zones are poor (2)
May 6, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Gunmen opened fire in the main plaza of San Roque, Antioquia to announce the begining of the 'Paro Armado'

Police, reportedly have orders to stay in their bunkers Town under lockdown and steeets deserted as AGC imposes the armed strike
Apr 26, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
It's time again for my quarterly reminder:

Anyone who thinks forced authentification is a good idea, or that shadow banning anonymous accounts will improve the quality of our information sphere, has never lived, worked, stepped outside the hotel lobby of an authoritarian state In Colombia for example, which prob isnt high on the list of authoritarian countries most English speakers immediately think of, data harvested from social media led directly to arrrests of protesters, many *months* later, some of whom now face "terrorism" charges
Feb 19, 2022 • 22 tweets • 6 min read
Alright! Let's get nerdy about the economic effects migrants have on their destination countries! And address some common misunderstandings with data from recent real world examples

THREAD: Let's start with one of the most common false claims globally- "Immigrants will take our jobs, lower our wages and especially hurt the poor"

To explain why this claim is false, we need to first explain a bit what immigrants do when they arrive to destination countries
Feb 17, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Well, Colombia's VP is lying publicly again, this time claiming that Colombia has suffered because of the Venezuelan migration

This claim is belied by a huge number of studies. The influx has been a net economic and social gain by virtually every measurable metric Xenophobia is omni-partisan, sadly
Jun 10, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
It's as if Elon Musk and Pinochet had a love child together Some people don't seem to realize this a joke. Mostly

Breathe guys
Jun 10, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Estos fachos, y lo digo 100% literalmente, borraron a su página de Facebook anoche. Pero tengo screenshots. Esta gente está locaaaaaaaaaaa #YoNoParoYoCruzado
Jun 10, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Yeah man. Shit. So this group of neo-facists went to the Misak protests today to yell at them. This would have been just after I left

All I can say is that 99% of the time in Latam people that use templar imagery are ultra fash. No idea why they love that stuff so much A shame i missed this. I would love to have asked them a few pointed questions on camera
Jun 9, 2021 • 36 tweets • 11 min read
Live Thread🧵 of today's protests in Bogota #ParoNacional9J I'm near the airport at the scene where the Misak were gassed this morning near a statue of Christopher Columbus. Rain continues

ESMAD looks cute cuddling Image Tactical community aesthetic enhancement on the two statues in the square, which have been splattered w red paint

Left: Colombia, "the origin of genocide"

Right: Spanish queen Isabella "No to colonialism" ImageImage
Jun 9, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Big marches planned in Bogotá tomorrow in what the Strike Committee is calling the "Taking of Bogotá"

I will be trying to make it. I might have to schedule some emergency dental surgery first tho. Outta nowhere I'm suddenly completely laid up w some serious pain
Jun 3, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Matt Taibbi achieves his final form It is absolutely hilarious to me that this guy pushes Grayzone. "We have to work with fascists because the US left is mean" may be one of the funniest (and darkest) arguments I've read in a long time
May 11, 2021 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
THREAD: I've been covering big protests movements in Latin America a little over three years, and there are a few things that ALWAYS happen in regards to State claims about what's going on. I'd like to break down a few because it's timely to current Colombian protests: 1) THIS IS FUNDED BY [insert external enemy]!!!

States do not like the idea that movements against them can arise organically or ppl have agency. Even more than just PR (though it's that too) those in power prefer to blame their failings on invisible nefarious outsiders
May 10, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Indepaz publishes witness testimony that supports claims by indigenous protesters that police chose not to intervene during attack on Minga protesters in Cali Details still emerging, but if counter protesters take away from this incident the idea that shooting Minga members has the tacit support of police, this could get very ugly very fast
May 8, 2021 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
THREAD: On ongoing protests in Colombia. After a some confusion on my part and a bit of a late start , I'm in Plaza Bolívar, where marchers are now rolling in

Much bigger crowd than I thought this morning, tho far from biggest so far. A walkthrough👇 #ParoNacional8M Some updates while we wait to see how crowds look. Cali continues in strike, with many highways partially blocked and marches near the main point of protests Puerto resistencia
Feb 1, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
A woman gave her live aerobics class in Myanmar without knowing about the ongoing coupe. Behind her, military vehicles arrive to seize the Parliament building

2021 off to a great optic start Also the music is amazing. I like about halfway thru as she dances to a swarm of military vehicles driving off to overthrow the gov into the background
Jan 29, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Speaking of people not reading the article before they tweet 🤭 All the politicos jockeying while loosely playing w the truth ahead of an upcoming election is normal- but when the carelessness involves COVID it's a lot less harmless
Jan 28, 2021 • 21 tweets • 6 min read
With everyone talking about Wall Street, it seems like a good moment to talk about the Occupy Wall Street movement, which happened 10 years ago this year! I spent weeks there, and it was incredibly instructive both in State violence in the US and how movements fall apart 🧵 First, quick refresher. In 2011, securities traders nearly burned down the global economy. The response of the US gov to the crisis was the "too big to fail" bailouts. This pissed off a lot of ppl who felt they were being rewarded for predatory behavior while the poor suffered
Jan 27, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Was curious so I made a map of every place I've gone for work in Colombia- the rule was I had to have slept there overnight, not just passed through

Gotta get to the Southeast!!

google.com/mymaps/?cid=mp… Also gotta get to Arauca
Oct 22, 2020 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Quick photo thread on Colombian protests over the last week with some fun details that didn't make it into the articles

Did I mention there was a protest dog? There was also

Left: an angel

and right: a Giant Iguana