Valeria Reglá

Brand Director para THP | Directora de estrategia global en Publicis UK | #Storytelling | Comunicación estratégica | Marketing | Análisis Político

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

The universe took one look at 2026 and said, “Things are getting out of hand. Deploy a tiny new cat that lives in a cloud forest.”

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

One NHS, many nationalities.

Huge thanks to every single person who helps keep the NHS going ❤️

[thomas @nnepenthes]

she really chopped it up with everyone

[David Alandete @alandete]

Marruecos solo hace esto si está seguro de que Estados Unidos va a obrar como ha obrado: culpando al Gobierno español y sus políticas migratorias. Desde la Casa Blanca, os cuento cómo varios republicanos tratan de reabrir el debate de la soberanía marroquí de Ceuta y Melilla.

[Embassy of Spain UK @EmbSpainUK]

Almost everyone who entered Ceuta yesterday has now returned to Morocco.

It is not possible to travel from Ceuta or Melilla to mainland Spain without presenting identification at a police checkpoint. The integrity of the Schengen area is fully guaranteed.

[Nicolas Colin @Nicolas_Colin]

🇪🇸 Since Spain won the World Cup, I’ve been obsessing over a thesis that I call “Latino Rising”, or the “Shakira Moment.” Hear me out.

There was a great article in the @nytimes about everything that’s going well in Spain, in addition to winning the World Cup. One of the points it made was that Spain is also experiencing a cultural renaissance, with Spanish cinema gaining international recognition and artists like Rosalía helping drive a shift away from English language songs on Spotify.

It immediately made me think about Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl and all the conversations it inspired about Latino culture slowly replacing Black culture as the mainstream avant-garde of American culture.

Hip hop has arguably been the biggest cultural force to emerge in the music industry over the past forty years. It reshaped music, fashion and youth culture around the world. But now, slowly and unmistakably, Latino artists and Spanish language music seem to be starting to occupy that same space.

And then here’s a third data point. On a recent episode of the "Geopolitical Cousins" podcast, geopolitical analyst Marko Papic made the point that although every European country, like most of the rest of the world, faces demographic decline, Spain is much better positioned because it has access to a vast pool of immigration: Spanish-speaking Latin America. These immigrants arrive with a shared language, cultural familiarity and historical ties, giving Spain a unique advantage in integrating new arrivals.

And so you see, there’s this triangle:

1️⃣ Spain as the Old World anchor, winner of the World Cup and going through an energy and manufacturing renaissance.

(Not even mentioning its PM Pedro @sanchezcastejon standing up to Trump and Trump declaring Spain a “lost cause”, which might be the best endorsement ever.)

2️⃣ Latin America as the deep demographic pool, providing sheer scale and cultural diversity across so many different countries, from Chile to Argentina to Colombia to El Salvador to Mexico.

3️⃣ The US as the financial and soft power amplifier, with the world’s largest entertainment industry, the dominant global media platforms, and a rapidly growing Hispanic population that acts as a cultural bridge between Latin America and the wider world.

Once those three get in sync, Spain’s economic and geopolitical resurgence, Latin America’s demographic and cultural depth, and America’s financial and media power could combine to make Latino culture, and Spanish as a language, even more dominant globally, offering a Western cultural and soft power alternative to the Anglosphere.

Who symbolizes this new world better than @shakira? Born in Colombia, obviously popular in Spain as well as in the US, she has been a global icon since at least the 2010 World Cup. Everyone knows her and knows her songs, just like with Madonna in the 1980s.

Latino Rising: what we’re witnessing is a power shift in the West from the Anglosphere towards the Latinosphere, symbolized by the passing of the baton between Madonna and Shakira.

The Latinosphere, being distributed across three powerful nodes, and then splitting down further in a fractal manner across South America and within Spain itself, is also much more representative of a multipolar world than the US dominated Anglosphere.

As for me, as suggested by my wife, I’ll start taking Spanish lessons on Duolingo. Being French, it should be easy, or at least easier than Mandarin.

What do you think?

[Christopher Sabatini @ChrisSabatini]

"In a recent assessment…DEA analysts found the strikes had failed to affect the supply or price of cocaine in the United States and had led traffickers to diversify beyond go-fast boats and to avoid international waters…" https://t.co/LEJ11GWG9j

[Valeria Reglá @ValeriaRegla]

Que MCM pasara en dos años de defender la victoria de Edmundo González a decir “I was elected” es esquizofrénico. Estoy de acuerdo en que hoy la mayoría votaría por ella, pero eso no le da un mandato electoral ni hace verdad que fue elegida por voto popular. Nos volvimos locos?

[Orlando J. Pérez @Perez1oj]

@MariaCorinaYA a @NewYorker, sobre el bloqueo de su regreso al país: "I was, in fact, elected. I have what's most valuable, people's trust." Cada afirmación suya remite a ese mandato electoral como fuente de su poder.

El arreglo que @SecRubio construyó en enero jubiló esa premisa sin anunciarlo. Funciona con acceso al petróleo y un socio dócil en Caracas, y al mandato de 2024 le asigna un solo uso: palanca para mantener a raya a @delcyrodriguezv. Machado aprendió del fracaso de Guaidó asegurar la legitimidad en casa antes de buscar apoyo afuera. Lo logró. Pero el patrón no valora la legitimidad.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

The UK’s Independent hunted down the exact episode of “Golden Girls” in which Blanche wore the same outfit Andrew Tate wore when he was arrested — both events in Florida. If you don’t believe in the special relationship after this, you must be French.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer went straight to the pub after resigning as Prime Minister earlier

📸 The Sun

[César A. Hidalgo @cesifoti]

Argentina’s behavioral crisis in the World Cup final has brought to light traits many of us in Latin America have internalized and that we need to come to terms with.

In many countries, emotional self-control and the ability to admit mistakes are seen as virtues. A behavioral problem in parts of Latin America is that there are social circles where the opposite is often celebrated.

This is the idea that someone who remains in control of their emotions is a coward or, depending on the situation, a traitor.

If someone offends you, your family, your team, the reaction that is celebrated in these circles is not restraint but flipping the table. The more berserk you go, the more you show that you care. That is a harmful value to hold, and also, one that many of us once shared. I certainly had it internalized when I left Chile 20+ years ago. In fact, I’ve spent much of my adult life trying to unlearn what I grew up believing was the socially acceptable behavior.

The second trait is an unwillingness to admit mistakes. You can always find an excuse, move the goalposts, or, once again, start a fight instead of publicly accepting that you’ve made a mistake. Admitting fault is a sign of weakness. Defending a losing position is a symbol of courage or, in sports, a test of loyalty.

Together, these two traits are behavioral dynamite. People explode because they cannot admit fault, and double down. Instead of learning from their mistakes, they become prisoners of them.

I grew up watching football with my father. When I was 10 or so, I was learning what was right and wrong from the way he interpreted the game. This included behavior both on and off the field. Only later in life did I realize that every penalty he called for, or contested, had little to do with the play itself. Whether a call was fair depended entirely on which team benefited. He was happy if his team received a nonexistent penalty or an opposing player got an undeserved red card.

These traits are among the things that pushed me away from the continent. They are certainly not exclusive to Latin America or the Southern Cone. I’ve encountered them in people all over the world. In an important sense, these are behaviors that all of us exhibit as children. What strikes me as unusual from the place I am from is having been part of social circles where these behaviors were not seen as flaws of character but as virtues to be admired, celebrated, and enforced.

These excessive forms of pride are not conducive to learning. They make it psychologically difficult to update one’s beliefs, accept responsibility, or improve. Although they become particularly visible in sports, they are by no means confined to them.

Something I am proud to have learned is to apologize quickly and often. Not because it is too difficult, but because it was like learning a new language at old age. That doesn’t mean becoming a pushover. But I’ve learned that a man who never apologizes cannot be a man of integrity, because we all make mistakes.

Argentina’s behavior on and off the field during the World Cup final was, to me, a particularly blatant expression of values that many people continue to defend. In some circles, these attitudes have become intertwined with ideas of national identity and loyalty. Yet they are shackles that ultimately limit our development, not because they make us lose a football match, but because they make it harder for us to learn from our mistakes.

The right thing to do now is the least likely: offer an honest apology. If my interpretation is even partially correct, we are more likely to see the opposite. Never back down. Never apologize. Never control your emotions. There is such a thing as having the wrong values. I hope that one day we can do better.

[Naky Soto 🍃 @Naky]

¿Por qué lo que dijo Trump no es un escándalo?
Porque es inconsistente.

- Afirmó que los informes de la CIA mostrarían el plan para favorecer de manera fraudulenta al "corrupto régimen de Maduro", pero lo que divulgó no prueba ese punto.
- Después de pasar estos meses de tutelaje haciendo declaraciones a favor del desempeño del triunvirato por su extraordinaria sumisión, hace menos comprensible que sea ahora cuando denuncie esta información y sin embargo, los mantenga en el poder.
- El triunvirato y todos los que fingen hacer gobierno con ellos son los herederos del "corrupto régimen de Maduro", por si acaso los informes de la CIA no lo dicen, eh.
- Jugar a “destapar la olla” sin relacionarla con algún tipo de investigación más profunda que suponga vincular lo que denuncia con sus responsables, tampoco es coherente, porque llevamos años denunciando cómo el chavismo acabó con la separación de poderes para que respondieran solo a los planes del Ejecutivo.
- Desde que murió el finado, el chavismo ha perdido (por corrupción, mediocridad y vileza), todo el apoyo político que alguna vez tuvo, lo que hace menos tolerable el juego del interinato tutelado frente a un país obstinado de sus delitos y de su impunidad.

[Luz Mely Reyes @LuzMelyReyes]

OMG Este hilo está tan bueno que merece un título: La increíble y triste historia de la cándida CIA y el binomio desalmado

[Mr. Spock 🖖 (Commentary) @SpockResists]

The police in the U.K. last night were not able to keep up with the 999 calls after women were battered by their drunk boyfriends and husbands. Children too. Because England lost a football game.

You fucking weak ass fragile pieces of shit. You over emotional child men cnuts.

[Joseph Gellman @joseph_gellman]

Average Brit on Starmer: Worse PM ever! Get rid of him now!!

Average foreign leader on Starmer: Our dear Keir, we are awarding you the Grand Medal of Hope and Unity, making you the third person in history to be honoured in such a way

[Kath. @miravalee]

vivir en Venezuela es como mirar a ambos lados de la calle y que te atropelle un avión

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

Europeans when the US destroys the very idea of rules in international criminal law:
Oh well, what a pity
Europeans when the US destroys the very idea of rules in international football:
Over my dead body

[Naky Soto 🍃 @Naky]

“Yo estoy hablando y diciendo que este maldito gobierno no sirve, que después de la tragedia de Vargas cómo no van ustedes equipados para esperar una maldita tragedia como esta”, dice la primera mujer, tan indignada como lúcida.

#Terremotos

[Spike el Monstruo 🦇🇻🇪⛓️ @spikermonster]

el pueblo venezolano

[Valeria Reglá @ValeriaRegla]

Este thread, completo

[Luis DE LION @LDeLION]

He sido crítico desde el día en que María Corina Machado decidió encapsularse en Washington y someterse —de forma incomprensible— a los caprichos de Donald Trump: sus incoherencias, sus insensateces y su exasperante transaccionalismo.

No hacía falta ser un genio para preverlo.