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Tom Phillips

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Latin America correspondent for the @guardian 🇧🇷 via 🇬🇧🇨🇳&🇲🇽 Email: [email protected]

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linkhttps://www.theguardian.com/profile/tomphillips calendar_today04-11-2010 18:34:18

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Trump's TV-ad telling migrants in the US to self-deport is airing during Mexico's top TV network special broadcast on the occasion of Pope Francis' death. 👇

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“The idea that there would be a [prisoner] trade should be loathsome to anyone who actually cares about human rights,” said Christopher Sabatini theguardian.com/world/2025/apr…

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"The reality is that the Venezuelan opposition needs good relationship w/ White House & understand they can’t be perceived as criticizing Trump,” said Geoff Ramsey “On other hand, general public in Venezuela is outraged at El Salvador deportations" theguardian.com/world/2025/apr…

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“What he’s trying to do – to negotiate innocent Venezuelans back and forth with the Maduro dictatorship – is despicable,” said ⁦Ade Ferro 🟧 🌻⁩ “We cannot celebrate two authoritarians negotiating back and forth with Venezuelan lives.” theguardian.com/world/2025/apr…

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Our latest story on the Venezuelan migrants slipping off the map in the US. "It’s unbelievable that they just grabbed them and sent them to a concentration camp" (with Clavel Rangel J.) theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a…

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In Latin America’s democratic transition, the outcome for the perpetrators of these disappearances was initial immunity, followed by truth commissions and eventual prosecutions

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“The Venezuelan community lives in uncertainty & in terror,” said ⁦Ade Ferro 🟧 🌻⁩ “People are petrified. They are thinking: ‘What if I am next? What if they stop me? What is going to happen?’” theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a…

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INCREDIBLE image: Venezuelan men who narrowly avoided being imprisoned by Trump in El Salvador without trial (saved by the Supreme Court) spelled out an SOS to a Reuters camera drone which was observing the facility. Buses to the airport were turned around at the last second.

INCREDIBLE image: Venezuelan men who narrowly avoided being imprisoned by Trump in El Salvador without trial (saved by the Supreme Court) spelled out an SOS to a <a href="/Reuters/">Reuters</a> camera drone which was observing the facility. 

Buses to the airport were turned around at the last second.
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For the CBF, the hoo-ha was a helpful diversion as it sought to shift attention away from its failure to recruit Carlo Ancelotti & a compromising exposé in ⁦revista piauí⁩ “It distracts from the things that really matter,” said ⁦Juca Kfouri⁩ theguardian.com/world/2025/apr…

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Thanks to everyone sharing this piece. Don't let up on the gas. The majority of these men had no criminal ties, and a tattoo alone doesn't mean you're part of a gang. In the case of Ángel Blanco Marin, he had a few — like a Donald Duck tattoo — and is now in CECOT.

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‘The pope is Peruvian’: elation in country where pontiff served as bishop. “I think this is a good thing for Peru. It’s like winning the World Cup!” theguardian.com/world/2025/may…

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“If the US doesn’t come back to its senses soon, Trump’s binge of self-destructiveness could enhance China’s rise without Xi having to lift a finger. You could think of it as America’s Great Leap Backward.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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Is this Beijing courting the many Latin American tourists no longer keen to travel to the US? "CHINA FOREIGN MINISTRY, ON VISA-FREE ARRANGEMENT: GRANTS VISA-FREE POLICY TO BRAZIL, ARGENTINA, CHILE, PERU AND URUGUAY NATIONALS FROM JUNE 1 2025 TO MAY 31 2026"