"This is Italy's Apollo project" For longer than anyone can remember, Italian governments have promised a bridge to Sicily and failed to build it. This story is about the beguilement of great infrastructure--and about power as an optical illusion: https://t.co/y6be6CtdeQ

Gustavo Petro seems to think that he’s better off being the American president’s victim than his friend, @giselasalimp writes. Read her reporting here: https://t.co/wsBA39jp54

Colombia's president seems to enjoy provoking Trump, @giselasalimp argues. But their spat is straining an alliance on which much of Colombia's economy and America's anti-drug efforts depend:

The exchange of insults between Trump and Petro has already strained an alliance that is more than two centuries old—one on which much of Colombia’s economy and America’s anti-drug efforts depend. By @giselasalimp

"People often say here that a cease-fire marks another kind of war—not of weapons, but of suffering. The war of the mind ... A cease-fire means entering a fragile limbo between survival and recovery" : https://t.co/mfJaUJZySM

Thinking about this paragraph from @giselasalimp right now.

The Nobel Committee just rewarded the Venezuelan opposition for choosing “ballots over bullets.” My piece on last year’s historic election:

NEW: The Trump administration is portraying its boat-bombing campaign in the Caribbean as an anti-drug mission. The evidence suggests it's about a lot more, report @nancyayoussef, @giselasalimp and @JonLemire https://t.co/FyDeKJZ3Ng

this is a beautiful essay: https://t.co/NDam015pm0

Felicitaciones, Gisela, por ese texto imperdible. También nosotros dejamos atrás un mango cuyos frutos, tan cerca de la acera y tan lejos por la cerca del edificio, eran un suplicio de Tántalo para los peatones que pasaban por aquella lejana Avenida Principal de La Tahona.

To certain members of Venezuela’s opposition party, the United States’s Caribbean anticartel operation seems to promise long-awaited salvation, @giselasalimp writes.

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Dictatorships can feel very normal at first https://t.co/XMQYjGGqmT

For some, ICE detentions are profitable business. A snippet from @itscaitlinhd's latest: https://t.co/jZIvRa50ub

What the Trump administration and the government of El Salvador did to 252 people:

NEW: Venezuelans deported by the Trump administration tell @giselasalimp that they were tortured during their months inside El Salvador’s megaprison. https://t.co/2dyie3Bino

NEW: Venezuelans deported by the Trump administration tell @giselasalimp that they were tortured during their months inside El Salvador’s megaprison. https://t.co/R0ND9FgFer

In case anyone is wondering what Venezuelan opposition leaders have been up to: https://t.co/9WsIKGhSHY

Venezuelan opposition leaders have a new message, @giselasalimp writes. "Helping Venezuela’s democratic cause is not just about doing the right thing, they imply. It’s also a chance to make bank":

In February, the Trump administration deported 299 migrants from all over the world to Panama. Many of them are still there, @giselasalimp writes. Panama says they are in transit. Many of the migrants say they have nowhere to go:

Thank you @ianmkysel, Silvia Serna, @yatescait, and Victor Atencio for talking to me! Thanks also @taryrodriguez for the wonderful pictures!