Ingrid Wehr

@wehri.bsky.social

works at Heinrich Böll Foundation, Latin American Division

recommended lecture for the week-end: Ezra Klein´s essay on Mark Carney´s speech in Davos "It was a bracing speech, but more than that, it was a brave act. It was the kind of act that Trumpism suggests does not exist, the kind of act that rebuts Trumpism by simply existing" bit.ly/3NEDgHl

President Trump threatened to impose 100 percent tariffs on all Canadian goods if the country “makes a deal with China,” a week after he said Prime Minister Mark Carney striking a trade deal with Beijing was “good” and what he “should be doing.”

Trump threatens 100% tariffs on Canada over China deal

Canada’s Mark Carney drew a standing ovation — and Trump’s ire — in Davos this week for an address in which he said the U.S.-led international order was “over.”

washingtonpost.com

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials

Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

theguardian.com