Juan Forero
@WSJForero
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South America bureau chief, The Wall Street Journal. Before: journeyman journalist with NYT, Washington Post, Newark Star-Ledger and the late, great NY Newsday
Bogota, Colombia
Joined January 2014
A debt of gratitude to @charlescwcooke and others who stand at the ready to debunk charlatans.
Where to start? The leaflet referred to here—“A Last Appeal to Reason,” by Adolf Hitler—was dropped en masse on August 1, 1940. By that date: . 1) Nazi Germany’s attempt to destroy the Royal Air Force ahead of an invasion of Britain was already in its fourth week (on July 10,
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RT @nut_history: Let’s not forget that July 4th is also the anniversary of Lou Gehrig’s epic speech (1939) at Yankee Stadium .
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Marco Rubio retira al principal diplomático en Bogotá por "declaraciones infundadas y reprobables". Quizás se refiere a las de Petro: culpando a los países ricos por muertes gratuitas durante la pandemia y al racismo detrás de las políticas migratorias.
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Now open for tourism: Jonestown, Guyana, where 900 people drank the Kool Aid and died in 1978 in one of the 20th Century's most bizarre cult tragedies.
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Tragic, any way you cut it: Isidro Perez escaped Cuba's brutal Communist regime and lived in the US nearly 60 years. Convicted in the '80s of drug charges, the 75-year-old was nabbed by ICE and died in custody. He'd complained of chest pains. @CBSMiami.
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Left-wing populists are often a mirror image of right-wing populists (just ask us here in Latin America). Essential reading by former Clinton and Obama official, William M. Daley, as the utopia candidate gets closer to becoming New York’s next mayor.
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“Just when the conventional wisdom that America was in terminal decline had congealed into place,” Walter Russell Mead says, “the airstrikes suggest that American power remains unique in world affairs.”. The big picture from @WSJOpinion
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Trump’s policy would deny citizenship at birth to an average of 255,000 babies born annually in the U.S. to unauthorized immigrants or temporary visa holders, according to the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan Washington think tank.
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Big win for Trump: The Supreme Court limited the authority of federal judges to issue nationwide injunctions, though it left uncertain the fate of his push to curtail birthright citizenship
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The irony of Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York: His defeated rival, Andrew Cuomo, is largely responsible because his policies as governor drove up the cost of housing, @WSJOpinion argues. That handed Mamdami an issue he drove to victory.
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RT @billybinion: This is cartoonishly ignorant. New York City has *always* been a city of immigrants—hello, Ellis Island. It’s the poster c….
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Dems say Harris woulda won with better turnout. But new voter turnout data suggests that, if anything, Trump would have done even better if everyone had voted. Particularly dispiriting for Dems: Young & nonwhite voters defected by the millions to Trump.
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Big news: Centrifuges at the Fordo uranium enrichment plant in Iran are “no longer operational” after the United States attacked the facility with bunker-busting bombs, says Rafael Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency
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RT @JonahDispatch: Hear me out. How about we globalize empanadas instead? They’re really good.
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“Por el comunismo estoy yo aquí”, Cubana le dice a Ayuso. “Soy Cubana”.
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“To put it simply: Mamdani won because of October 7, by which I mean, he is the encampment candidate,” writes @jpodhoretz “He is the ‘Free Palestine’ candidate. He is the ‘globalize the intifada’ candidate. He emerged from the pack because this was his secret sauce”.
A terrifying prospect in the Big Apple.
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