Jonny Wrate

@evodzoni.bsky.social

Investigative journalist in Latin America at OCCRP. Organised crime, corruption, environment, illicit finance

💥Trying to lift falling poll numbers, Viktor Orbán is staging a confrontation with Ukraine, sending a video message to Zelensky hoping Kyiv escalates. Note: Russia—not Ukraine—bombed the Druzhba oil pipeline and Orbán sent no similar warning to Moscow.

NEW INVESTIGATION: While the Trump Administration threatens military action in Venezuela and Mexico over drug trafficking, the US has left loopholes wide open allowing traffickers to obtain private jets in the US, completely anonymously, for flying cocaine across LatAm www.occrp.org/en/project/n...

Trail of Drug-Linked Planes Leads Back to California Seller – and U.S. Aviation Regulatory ‘Blind Spot’

OCCRP reviewed the sales of 30 planes by Lance Zane Ricotta’s companies since 2014, and found evidence that 11 of them were seized, investigated, or found abroad in suspected or confirmed drug cases. ...

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Truly a remarkable piece here in Bidoun by Ismail Ibrahim on his time as the sole Arabic-speaking fact-checker at The New Yorker. It's very well-written and ...the exceptions to standards editor David Remnick makes to protect Israeli interests in that mag is really quite something.

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I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it s...

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NEW: Chihuahua, Mexico's most sprawling state, is building a surveillance system. Once complete, it'll have almost 10K cameras, including some w/ facial recognition capabilities. Authorities offered to share access with US police—including Texas DPS. 🧵 www.texasobserver.org/texas-chihua...

Just Beyond the Texas Border, Chihuahua Is Launching a Burgeoning State Surveillance System

The 20-story Torre Centinela looming over Juárez is part of a much larger AI-powered network that won’t stop at the U.S.-Mexico divide.

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My first report for ‪@al-jazeera-english.bsky.social ‬in a while- on the death of Jesús Alaín Vásquez, a student of the Mactumatzá Normal here in Chiapas & the demands of his classmates for justice. www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...

How a student’s death in Mexico raises questions about police violence

A 22-year-old’s death has highlighted the tensions between police and student teachers with a tradition of protest.

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Hace unas semanas, la Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores de México intervino tres bancos mexicanos acusados por el Departamento del Tesoro de EE. UU. de presuntos vínculos con el crimen organizado. Hoy te presentamos otros hallazgos:

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On Tuesday night I was barred from entering Georgia, my home for the last three years. Official reasons were given as “other,” but from the circumstances of my departure in April it’s clear the refusal is directly tied to my work covering the country as a journalist. 1/ rsf.org/en/between-h...

Between harassment and expulsion, Georgia is bent on silencing British journalist Will Neal

Independent British journalist Will Neal was arbitrarily denied entry into Georgia, where he has lived since 2022, upon returning from a trip to the United Kingdom (UK) and European Union (EU). Report...

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