Grace Livingstone
@graceliv.bsky.social
Journalist and affiliated lecturer at Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge. US/UK policy in Latin America. Now researching: Environmental social movements, corporations, greenwash, water. https://www.grace-livingstone.com/
There's growing denialism in Chile about the crimes of Pinochet's dictatorship I interviewed Alejandra Holzapfel, a former political prisoner who - with other survivors - turned a former torture centre into a site of memory & hope bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Outlook - Could a fig tree reveal a secret prison? - BBC Sounds
Chilean Alejandra Holzapfel’s long fight to reclaim the hidden torture site she survived
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En Chile crece la negación de los crímenes de la dictadura de Pinochet Entrevisté a Alejandra Holzapfel, ex prisionera política, que - con otros sobrevivientes - transformó un antiguo centro de tortura en un sitio de memoria y esperanza www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Outlook - Could a fig tree reveal a secret prison? - BBC Sounds
Chilean Alejandra Holzapfel’s long fight to reclaim the hidden torture site she survived
bbc.co.uk
There's growing denialism in Chile about the crimes of Pinochet's dictatorship I interviewed Alejandra Holzapfel, a former political prisoner who - with other survivors - turned a former torture centre into a site of memory & hope bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Outlook - Could a fig tree reveal a secret prison? - BBC Sounds
Chilean Alejandra Holzapfel’s long fight to reclaim the hidden torture site she survived
bbc.co.uk
Chile's new rightwing president has halted plans to turn Colonia Dignidad - a notorious toture centre under the Pinochet dictatorship - into a site of memory Victims' families say president Kast has a policy of denying the crimes of the dictatorship www.elmostrador.cl/noticias/opi...
Colonia Dignidad: lo que se intenta borrar y lo que no se puede destruir
Los intentos más significativos –desde el Gobierno del expresidente Aylwin hasta la reciente iniciativa del expresidente Boric– han fracasado. Y ese fracaso no es casual: demuestra que el poder de Col...
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So dreadful to hear of the stabbings of two Jewish men in Golders Green. This follows an arson attack on Jewish ambulances in the same area. We must stand together against antisemitism and hate
Today's vigil @stbrides.com honouring our fallen colleagues - killed in Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Israel. Marking #IWMD Go see the memorial inside - very moving and gives you a sense of the scale. Huge thanks to everyone who came along. 🙏
New time: 15:30 bsky.app/profile/nujl...
NUJ London Freelance@nujlfb.bsky.social · 3mo agoA vigil for fallen colleagues🕯️ 28 Apr, 3.30 pm @stbrideschurch (new time) To mark #IWMD - we're holding a vigil to honour journalists killed while reporting. A minute's silence then we'll read out their names. All welcome. 🙏 www.londonfreelance.org/fl/2604iwmd....
The start time of this vigil has been changed to 15:30
Grace Livingstone@graceliv.bsky.social · 3mo agoOn Tue 28 April 2.30pm the National Union of Journalists will hold a vigil at @stbrides.com for journalists killed while reporting . We'll remember those killed in Gaza & Lebanon, like Amal Khalil who was killed in an Israeli airstrike yesterday @nujlfb.bsky.social www.ifj.org/media-centre...
Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil found dead after being trapped in rubble following Israeli strike, obstruction of rescue: cpj.org?p=583367
CPJ calls for immediate rescue of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil, trapped under rubble in southern Lebanon - Committee to Protect Journalists
UPDATE: On April 22, the Red Cross reported that they had found the body of Amal Khalil under the rubble. Beirut, April 22, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists is outraged that the Israeli Defen...
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On Tue 28 April 2.30pm the National Union of Journalists will hold a vigil at @stbrides.com for journalists killed while reporting . We'll remember those killed in Gaza & Lebanon, like Amal Khalil who was killed in an Israeli airstrike yesterday @nujlfb.bsky.social www.ifj.org/media-centre...
Lebanon: Journalist targeted and killed by Israeli airstrikes while reporting on the war in southern Lebanon / IFJ
On 22 April, Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was targeted and killed in a building where she had taken cover from Israeli airstrikes. Rescue teams were prevented from reaching her for hours. Khalil wa...
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Jose Kast - a supporter of Gen Pinochet - becomes president of Chile today I visited this former Pinochet torture centre - now turned into a site of memory - and met survivor Alejandra Holzapfel Kast denies the abuses of the dictatorship & is withdrawing funding from this site of memory
protests in Uruguay against off-shore oil exploration Chevron has contracted prospecting ships...Shell and other majors interested lab.org.uk/uruguay-camp...
Uruguay: campaign against offshore oil | Latin America Bureau
As an offshore oil prospecting ship arrives in Montevideo, Mike Gatehouse interviewed Vito Mata who has been closely involved in campaigns of protest that aim to halt seismic exploration and subsequen...
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A govt file relating to UK military support for the Pinochet regime 1983-84 during Thatcher years is closed - and my Freedom of Information request has just been rejected We already know a lot about this (see my thread below), so I wonder what else they have to hide?
When Pinochet was arrested in London - Chilean exiles protested wherever he went, bringing the world's attention to his human rights abuses Now one of the organisers of 'El Piquete' is making a film - please help her fund it www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/piquete-503 @latinamericabureau.bsky.social
I made this BBC Witness History programme about the Chilean school students protests of 2006 Hundreds of thousands of students took over their schools against inequality - and won their demands I interviewed protest leader Karina Delfino www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
BBC World Service - Witness History, Chile's 'Penguin Revolution'
In 2006, more than 600,000 school children in Chile began a nationwide protest
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Hice este programa sobre la Revolución Pingüina. Cuando miles de estudiantes ocuparon sus escuelas en protesta contra la desigualdad Entrevisté a Karina Delfino www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
BBC World Service - Witness History, Chile's 'Penguin Revolution'
In 2006, more than 600,000 school children in Chile began a nationwide protest
bbc.co.uk
I made this BBC Witness History programme about the Chilean school students protests of 2006 Hundreds of thousands of students took over their schools against inequality - and won their demands I interviewed protest leader Karina Delfino www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
BBC World Service - Witness History, Chile's 'Penguin Revolution'
In 2006, more than 600,000 school children in Chile began a nationwide protest
bbc.co.uk
Hice este programa sobre la Revolución Pingüina. Cuando miles de estudiantes ocuparon sus escuelas en protesta contra la desigualdad Entrevisté a Karina Delfino www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
BBC World Service - Witness History, Chile's 'Penguin Revolution'
In 2006, more than 600,000 school children in Chile began a nationwide protest
bbc.co.uk
US oil capital Houston buzzes as industry limbers up for Venezuela oil rush - www.reuters.com/business/ene...
US oil capital Houston buzzes as industry limbers up for Venezuela oil rush
In a downtown Houston bar, Matthew Goitia, a director at Pelorus Terminals, lays out his early idea to refurbish and build marine terminals that can blend and export crude and ship chemical products i...
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I've written an explainer on Venezuela: Why did Chavez revolution go wrong? Who are the factions in Venezuela today? History of US involvement in Venezuela Why Trump did not go for regime change lab.org.uk/venezuela-th... @latinamericabureau.bsky.social @clascam.bsky.social @nujlfb.bsky.social
Understanding Venezuela -- an explainer | Latin America Bureau
Grace Livingstone, author of America’s Backyard, analyses the Chavista revolution, what went wrong, the different factions in Venezuela today and the long history of US intervention in the country. ...
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He escrito una guía explicativa sobre Venezuela: ¿Por qué fracasó la revolución de Chávez? ¿Quiénes son las facciones en Venezuela hoy? Historia de la intervención de EE. UU. en Venezuela. ¿Por qué Trump no buscó un cambio de régimen? lab.org.uk/entender-ven... @latinamericabureau.bsky.social
Entender Venezuela: una guía explicativa | Latin America Bureau
Grace Livingstone, autora de America’s Backyard, analiza la revolución Chavista, cómo se equivocó, las distintas facciones políticas en la Venezuela de
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I took part in BBC Radio 4 The Long View - on US interventions in Latin America I talked about Guatemala 1954 - how the US overthrew the elected president He'd wanted to redistribute land in a country dominated by vast plantations owned by United Fruit www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Long View - US Interventions Abroad - BBC Sounds
Jonathan Freedland takes the Long View of US interventions abroad.
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Trump calls Venezuela’s interim president 'a terrific person' after phone call
US President Donald Trump has described a “great” conversation with Venezuela’s interim president Delcy Rodriguez, as Washington signals a willingness to work with the post-Maduro leadership while pre...
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Three of the hunger strikers have ended their strike
I took part in BBC Radio 4 The Long View - on US interventions in Latin America I talked about Guatemala 1954 - how the US overthrew the elected president He'd wanted to redistribute land in a country dominated by vast plantations owned by United Fruit www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Long View - US Interventions Abroad - BBC Sounds
Jonathan Freedland takes the Long View of US interventions abroad.
bbc.co.uk
Falei com a BBC Brasil sobre a Doutrina Monroe e as ambições de Trump na América Latina www.bbc.com/portuguese/a...
Ação contra Maduro é recado de Trump para China, diz autora de livro sobre Doutrina Monroe - BBC News Brasil
Para acadêmica britânica, dentro do próprio governo Trump há visões diferentes sobre como os EUA devem tratar a América Latina e gestão republicana pode apoiar Flavio Bolsonaro na eleição presidencial...
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I spoke to C4 about the Monroe Doctrine and years of interventions in Latin America youtu.be/_JwobRCgiN8?... - channel4news.substack.com/p/trumps-evo...
‘Donroe' Doctrine: Trump’s 200-year old plan for Latin America
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I spoke to BBC Brasil about the Monroe Doctrine and Trump's ambitions in Latin America today www.bbc.com/portuguese/a...
Ação contra Maduro é recado de Trump para China, diz autora de livro sobre Doutrina Monroe - BBC News Brasil
Para acadêmica britânica, dentro do próprio governo Trump há visões diferentes sobre como os EUA devem tratar a América Latina e gestão republicana pode apoiar Flavio Bolsonaro na eleição presidencial...
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