NPR turning off Twitter:
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LUZ DEL CARMEN Flores was just one of dozens of Mexican women who showed up to share her compassion w #migrants traveling through #Juarez39 to get to USA. In city tha knows all too well about pain, she has message @ dallasnews⁩

In Mexico they treat you worse than prisoners …. ⁦Dallas Morning News⁩ w ⁦ImeldaGarcía🌟⁩ ⁦Luis Torres⁩

NEW: outside the immigration office migrants held a peaceful protests, pushing back against government narrative that it was migrants who started the fire. They asked for government accountability, saying “we’re human beings, not animals. Treat us with dignity”

JUST NOW: Carlos Enrique, 25, stood outside immigration office and called the tragedy “a catastrophe. We want to do things right. But they make it impossible.”

This was the cover of @reforma, one of the main dailies in Mexico, today. It included a huge, uncensored picture of the bodies of the migrants who died in a fire at an immigration detention center in Juarez. I think it speaks to how migrants are dehumanized in this hemisphere.

This has been a hard week at @npr not least because it is losing legendary international reporters. Sylvia Poggioli and deborah amos who paved the way for those of us who followed in their intrepid and knowledgeable footsteps. 🫡 I will miss your voices on air.

The longest-serving correspondent on @npr's international desk hangs up her headphones. Sylvia Poggioli represents everything great in broadcast journalism. What a career, what an inspiration. @npr will not be the same without her

#Nicaragua es lo que soy y todo lo que tengo, y que nunca voy a dejar de ser, ni dejar de tener, mi memoria y mis recuerdos, mi lengua y mi escritura, mi lucha por su libertad por la que he empeñado mi palabra. Mientras más Nicaragua me quitan, más Nicaragua tengo.

y te amo patria de mis sueños y mis penas
y te llevo conmigo para lavarte las manchas en secreto
susurrarte esperanzas
y prometerte curas y encantos que te salven.

A nephew of the late Pablo Neruda tells NPR that scientists found high levels of poison in the poet's remains, Carrie Kahn reports npr.org/2023/02/15/115…

SPOTTED: Mexican spy balloon

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Headline: Last meal as President

2022 was a big year for @npr international desk. We opened three new bureaus: Emmanuel Akinwotu in Lagos. Aya Batrawy in Dubai (Thread below)
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and our long-time Athens correspondent Joanna Kakissis moved to Kyiv. 1/10
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What A Year! In 2022, @npr international desk covered the world, from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, China’s threats to Taiwan, the rise of a funk & pop singer in Brazil to a chef cooking Christmas meals in Bethlehem. Here are just seven of our favorite stories (more to come). 1/9

Check out the third book reviewed. By friend Kathy Corcoran. Highly recommend it. The best book I've read all year.
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Check out my three in one (audio, print and video) story about Brazilians conflicted over their world famous soccer jerseys!
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Brasil listos a jugar! Pronto para jogar! Photo on front page hoje of OGlobo. First game today at 4 pm local. Go Amarelinha!