@Alex_Niven I left the country in 97 and lived abroad till 2014, the extent of the collapse into this sneery, greedy seediness was genuinely shocking when I got back.
Beyond depressing.
A very young @nijmeijer_tanja - a Dutch woman - came to Colombia, was struck by the abject poverty, and got involved in the FARC. She has now written a remarkable memoir of her time in the fight, Into the Jungle: My Life as a Guerrilla in Colombia, from @PlutoPress (https://t.co/ENJBJjSXbg). Do read this wonderful account of a country that remains in distress.
NEW: 260 British Jews – among them British Israeli historian Avi Shlaim, human rights barrister Margaret Owen OBE and journalist and politician @andrewfeinstein – have accused the @BoardofDeputies of genocide denial in an open letter.
Ms. Rachel: “Can we take a second to think about how if we were freezing cold in tents and they were flooded and our babies were going to freeze and there’s a government, the Israeli government, that won’t let the warm supplies through so more kids are gonna die and we’re just like, all the nations, all the people, all the leaders, just like yeah that’s gonna happen again. You and I should not be ashamed that we are loud and we are constantly saying stop”