Sam Woolston

Honduras expert and writer

[Sam Woolston @samwoolston_]

🌊 | My recent article on narco subs is now in video and audio format. Learn about how criminal groups are using submarines to ship cocaine to a continent near you by checking out the link below 👇
https://t.co/5uIbGLVsRy

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Elon Musk held up a chainsaw, fed USAID into the wood chipper, and at least 600,00 people have already died as a result - two-thirds of them children.

History's first trillionaire.

[Keri Blakinger @keribla]

NEW: A House Democrat is pushing to ban the federal prison system from offering taxpayer-funded VIP perks to drug lords and child traffickers. But, so far, Republicans have opposed that.

My latest for @propublica: https://t.co/iFInf9J4aE

[Sam Woolston @samwoolston_]

@RogerJStoneJr Juan Orlando Hernandez being one of the regions largest drug traffickers …

https://t.co/0WGNEAoUwR

[Ioan Grillo @ioangrillo]

Jalisco Cartel sicarios killed 25 Mexican National Guard soldiers in Jalisco yesterday, the Mexican security secretary reveals.

That is a huge loss of life for the Mexican army. The defense secretary broke into tears mentioning it. Tragedy for the soldiers and their families.

[ProPublica @propublica]

Rather than turn former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández over to immigration officials when he was released from prison less than four years into a 45-year sentence, the Trump administration paid to transport him to a posh NYC hotel.

https://t.co/w13iq2sKUb

[ProPublica @propublica]

New: Rather than turn former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández over to immigration officials when he was released from prison less than four years into a 45-year sentence, the Trump administration paid to transport him to a posh NYC hotel. https://t.co/0xpd9Mklxh

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Drop Site obtained harrowing footage of the latest killing which appears to be from the perspective of the woman in pink filming from the sidewalk

[InSight Crime @InSightCrime]

#NewAnalysis | Report Puts International Banks, Honduras Elites at Center of Berta Cáceres Murder. https://t.co/wplWxVuhSl

[Mike LaSusa @mikelasusa]

Two record-breaking cocaine seizures in Europe hit the news today. 3 tons in Sweden and 10 tons en route from Brazil towards Spain.

After three months of US boat bombings - 35 strikes, 123 people killed - drug trafficking hasn't stopped. It's just shifting routes.

[Sam Woolston @samwoolston_]

@RogerJStoneJr If the evidence of drug trafficking is great enough, perhaps Trump will grant them a full and unconditional pardon.

[Daractenus @Daractenus]

Maybe I’m too much of a European, but I honestly can’t understand how so many Americans find it perfectly natural to be shot in the head on the spot for the slightest act of disobedience toward any sort of law enforcement. You might wanna revisit that "land of the free" thing.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Seeing Vance's comments, I lived a similar moment 19 years ago in a Russian courtroom hearing a judge state that the police officer's testimony had to be trusted over our video evidence because "he was wearing the uniform". Total immunity beats reality in a police state.

[Jacqueline Sweet @JSweetLI]

The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University. This was her bio:

"Renée Macklin is from Colorado Springs, Colorado and is studying Creative Writing at ODU. Her poetry has been published in Metrosphere and Coronado Literary Review, and she currently co-hosts a podcast with her husband, comedian Tim Macklin. When she is not writing, reading, or talking about writing, she has movie marathons and makes messy art with her daughter and two sons."

(People are posting the wrong woman's photo, the red lipstick photo is not her. This is Renee, from her social media accounts.)

[New York Times Opinion @nytopinion]

"Tragically, America is still living in a political era that began on Jan. 6, 2021," the editorial board writes. "Recognizing as much is necessary to bring this era to an end before it has many more anniversaries." https://t.co/Te2VEqgMh1

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped.

The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

[Sam Woolston @samwoolston_]

The charges against Maduro are similar to those on which Honduran former president Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH) was convicted before Trump granted him a full and unconditional pardon. JOH was not innocent, as years-long on-the-ground journalism documents.
https://t.co/KfRqkYppQj

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

@JDVance Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who was convicted of drug trafficking and sent to prison for 45 years. What the hell is wrong with you

[Sam Woolston @samwoolston_]

@AlexisRobe72653 @RogerJStoneJr I wasn't given any version. I lived in Hernandez' home town for five years. I was his neighbour. I also worked as an investigative journalist for an organization that has documented organized crime across Latin America for 15-years. Have you been given an 'unofficial version'?

[Sam Woolston @samwoolston_]

@mattgaetz The lesson you’re suggesting is that all countries and autocrats should get nukes to protect themselves from America?