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Michael Reid

@michaelreid52

Writer-at-large @TheEconomist; columnista @Letras_Libres; speaker; visiting prof @LSEPublicPolicy. Books "Spain", "Forgotten Continent" (on Lat Am) and "Brazil"

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Enchentes alagam 91% das indústrias do RS e afetam toda a cadeia de produção do estado www1.folha.uol.com.br/mercado/2024/0…

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A Statement From the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes Board | Columbia Journalism School journalism.columbia.edu/news/statement…

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The Yale Press is having a 50% off sitewide sale of all its books, which ends on May 17th, for all buyers living in the US or Canada. Better yet, the Press will provide free shipping. Since The Postmodern Predicament was published during late April,

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Catalonia: with 25% counted looks like a good result for the Catalan Socialists (up 10 seats) and for Pedro Sánchez. Seemingly no parliamentary majority for the pro-independence parties for the first time since 2010; the right has done better than 2021 and the hard left worse.

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Spain: turnout in today's regional election in Catalonia seems to have been nearly as low as in the pandemic election of 2021. A factor may be problems with the railways; a bigger one may be a sense of disillusionment with politics after a decade of division over independence

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If one Tory MP defected each week - the current rate of attrition - the Conservatives would lose their majority by the 2nd October (in 21 weeks time).

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PSG will say they were unlucky after hitting the woodwork five times tonight. But they only got out of the group stage because of a late and highly dodgy penalty against
Newcastle United FC
Congratulations Dortmund, a proper club rather than an assortment of mercenaries

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Colombia: there is no possible justification for the ELN to say that they will return to kidnapping for money. With this, they show themselves to be just another branch of organised crime.
elpais.com/america-colomb… via @elpaisamericaco

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Panamá: the candidate of Ricardo Martinelli, a former president convicted of corruption, appears to have won the presidential election. He will have to govern with a fragmented Congress. After years of progress, the outlook is sombre elpais.com/america/2024-0… via EL PAÍS América

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'The hole to dig us out is the PM’s, and it’s time for him to start shovelling.' Really? The metaphor is: to get out of a hole, stop digging. But you keep digging, presumably because you want a deeper hole for your own presumed benefit, though the country has stopped listening...

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⚠️ En Instagram hay más de 40 cuentas falsas que suplantan la identidad de Edmundo González Edmundo González. Algunas están compartiendo tweets fabricados, nunca escritos por el candidato de la PUD.

Usuarios de Instagram han leido tweets falsos en los que pareciera que González ha…

⚠️ En Instagram hay más de 40 cuentas falsas que suplantan la identidad de Edmundo González @EdmundoGU. Algunas están compartiendo tweets fabricados, nunca escritos por el candidato de la PUD. Usuarios de Instagram han leido tweets falsos en los que pareciera que González ha…
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'El ánimo constructivo, tradicionalmente presente en las relaciones latinoamericanas, está faltando en la CELAC. '

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Conservative MPs are again out making insane calls for the UK to join Russia & Belarus as the only European countries outside the Human Rights convention & attacking the Civil Service for upholding the rule of law

If UK News Shows won’t call this boll**** out I WILL

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