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The attack on Colombia’s Palace of Justice resulted in one of the country’s most famous massacres. For decades, the public largely believed government claims that it was M-19 Guerillas who killed hostages and nearly half
This week’s news feature is a preview of our upcoming podcast season with Adriaan Alsema from Colombia Reports. Colombian police intelligence likely purchased Israeli software Pegasus during the country’s national strike
Protests over U.S. funding of the Israeli war in Gaza, originally organized at Columbia University in New York City, have spread to more than 40 campuses. Police crackdowns, including the deployment of the National Guard
Welcome back Piratas! Yesterday the Venezuelan government banned presidential primary opposition candidate María Corina Machado from office for 15 years, sparking international condemnation. Recent polls show right-wing
Last week a German tourism company that offers $4000 USD tours of the Darien Gap —the most dangerous migration corridor in the Americas— elicited a firestorm of criticism. Some journalists erroneously claimed that the co
Avast, me hearties! I don’t know about you but we’re greeting the weekend like a marooned man greets a passing ship. Before we get onto the news, there’s a brief update. For the past three months, we’ve been sending you
News ahoy! It’s Saturday, (yeah, we're a little late, sorry, Piratas) and even though most stories reach the Good Ship Capybara via a message in a bottle, we’ve got plenty of updates for you today. Last Sunday, Colombian
Como siempre, deslizáte para abajo para leer todo en castellano. Hola Piratas! This week was an especially chaotic one in Latin America. Joshua and Daniela are buried under a mountain of electioneering pamphlets and dead
Shiver me timbers, it’s Friday! Today, we’re marooned. Spiritually, professionally, and piratically. It’s been one of those weeks. Our podcast this week is a deep dive into who the next possible president of Colombia may
Ahoy! It’s been a labor intensive week for the PWS crew as presidential elections near in Colombia, which is what we’re talking about in this week's podcast! Amy and Paulo are well on the road to recovery after involunta
Avast ye! It’s Friday. This week, Amy and Paulo are shivering their timbers with scurvid, the most briny of omicron subvariants. Josh is setting sail for Bogotá and Dani is writing a lot and crying in a fetal position. D
Ahoy there! We hope you’ve all weighed anchor for the weekend by now, because we’re sending this super late. Soz. The podcaster responsible *ahem* will be duly keelhauled once we can find a vessel bound for Buenos Aires.
Ahoy Piratas! We hope this May Day week found you well. It’s been a chaotic news week for the Americas in general with an uncommon number of major stories! We’ve written up the bits important to the regions we report on
Ahoy there! We hope this week has been more plain sailing than stormy seas wherever you are. Amy is confined to hard labour in the galley after trying to pick up a pan and finding it stuck to the stovetop. Dani is fendin
Avast, me hearties! We hope your week has been more rum punch than rum deal. In this week’s podcast, Josh looks at how the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has responded to a spate of murders with a brutal authori
**Deslízate hacia abajo para leer en castellano*** Ahoy! It’s Holy Week (Semana Santa) and we hope you’ve all weighed anchor somewhere nice for Easter: irrespective of our faith, most of us have a long weekend. Colombia’
Ahoy! Welcome to this week’s Pirate Wire Services, we hope you’ve successfully navigated the seas of April so far. In this podcast episode, Paulo Rosas is looking at a wave of protests in Peru this week. These were initi
*Update: On April 1st, just after this podcast was published, the CDC announced an end to Title 42 beginning the end of May. You can find details on the process here.* ***Castellano más abajo*** Ahoy there! We hope you’v
Buenas tardes! When we started Pirate Wire Services, we were always hoping to turn it into a podcast one day. So instead of the usual Friday newsletter, this week we’ve recorded a podcast episode. The war in Ukraine has
Is Bitcoin a good move for El Salvador? The country is courting a boom with BTC set to become legal tender this week. We speak with an activist/journalist John Dennehy and skeptic Mat Youkee, journalist for the Guardian,
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