Whitney Eulich

Latin America editor & correspondent @csmonitor. @ColumbiaSIPA alumna & sometimes radio producer/reporter/trainer. post ≠ endorsement [email protected]

[Geoff Ramsey @GRamsey_LatAm]

According to this @AP bombshell, “The Trump administration has quietly instructed federal prosecutors in Miami to avoid pursuing criminal investigations into #Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez.” https://t.co/n3u4Tl0QN2

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

Bolivian protests calling for center-right President Rodrigo Paz to resign intensified Monday as demonstrators swarmed government buildings and a protest leader faced terrorism charges over the unrest. https://t.co/Gzeh4uaJ0d

[Tony Payan @PayanTony]

Reports began to run that #MORENA Sen Enrique Inzunza Cázares, sought by the US for #organizedcrime has been detained in San Diego, CA. If true, this is unprecedented--a seating senator is now in custody in the US. The issues #Mexico's government has to deal with will have grown.

[Anatoly Kurmanaev @AKurmanaev]

When we initially reported in February that Saab was detained, the pushback was enormous. He is chilling at home, he’s totally fine, said his lawyers and associates. Declining to comment is an acceptable response to a journalist. Lying is not.

[EL PAÍS América @elpais_america]

‘Hondurasgate’, la supuesta trama injerencista de Estados Unidos e Israel para desestabilizar a México y otros gobiernos progresistas

https://t.co/W6mpre34lj

[Anna-Cat Brigida @AnnaCat_Brigida]

Members of Salvadoran investigative news outlet El Faro, which has exposed gang negotiations an corruption in Bukele's government, have had their assets frozen, the outlet announced today

https://t.co/PCDXVdKhWP

[Maya Averbuch @mayaaverbuch]

Bloomberg News is hiring a bureau chief based in Bogotá to lead coverage of Colombia and Venezuela. It is, as you might imagine, a great job!

https://t.co/z0M9xBAgUH

[Lourdes Medrano @_LourdesMedrano]

Happy Cinco de Mayo -- not to be confused with Mexican Independence Day. Some enduring fun facts:
https://t.co/oxkA8Yf0Qa

[boz @bloggingsbyboz]

The local Peru results are wild to analyze. There are departments where the top candidates nationally didn't even place among the top five candidates locally. Large segments of the country will feel completely unrepresented in the second round presidential campaign.

[Will Freeman @WillGFreeman]

Peru looking increasingly likely to go to a run-off between Keiko Fujimori and Rafael López Aliaga, both right-wing candidates.

But Peru is not 'joining' the right-wing turn in Latin America.

It already turned right in 2023 under Dina Boluarte & a hyper-powerful congress...

[Geoff Ramsey @GRamsey_LatAm]

UN Fact-Finding Mission on #Venezuela warns the recent Amnesty Law doesn't acknowledge govt responsibility, and doesn't set up a transparent pathway to independent investigations or other mechanisms to uncover the truth and bring reparations to victims. https://t.co/PUYrjETDA0

[Christopher Sabatini @ChrisSabatini]

@McFaul And there’s this. https://t.co/kZReAuR1ks

[Kurt Hackbarth 🌹 @KurtHackbarth]

Crowds pack the station on opening day of the "Insurgente" train linking Mexico City to Toluca. Travel time drops from two hours to fifty minutes for 90 pesos ($5), and linked to subway. Turns out infrastructure in the public interest is popular—who knew?

[Mie Hoejris Dahl @Miehdahl]

What does the fall of Maduro mean for Venezuela's oil industry? And for life inside Venezuela?
@weulich and I looked at this for @csmonitor:
https://t.co/8C2nir20ih
#venezuela #latinamerica #oil #economics #politics

[Eric Martin @EMPosts]

NEW: Trump on Thursday will have lunch at 12:30pm with Nobel Peace Prize winner and #Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado at the White House

[Geoff Ramsey @GRamsey_LatAm]

And there you have it. #Venezuela’s Supreme Tribunal of Justice appoints Vice President @delcyrodriguezv as the country’s acting president, but sidesteps the specific constitutional language mentioning a timeline for new elections (see Articles 233/244)

[Sophie Hills @sophiemhills]

“The U.S. decapitated Venezuela and I expect to see jockeying for power” says @ChrisSabatini. “This is not a democratic transition. It’s not even a regime change – yet"

https://t.co/E93kXzK75M

@weulich @CaitBabcock714

[Mie Hoejris Dahl @Miehdahl]

Christmas is approaching fast, but in Venezuela it’s been underway for months. Why do authoritarians in Latin America push Christmas so hard?
Read @weulich and my story in @csmonitor:
https://t.co/MGLQcCfivX
#venezuela #nicaragua #latinamerica #elsalvador #christmas #navidad

[The Christian Science Monitor @csmonitor]

The president’s more aggressive approach to Latin America is welcomed by many in the Cuban diaspora. They see one of their own – Secretary of State Marco Rubio – as an architect of the shift that, for them, has been a long time coming. #cuba #rubio #castro https://t.co/7pemMt4MBk

[Anatoly Kurmanaev @AKurmanaev]

Nice story on the expanding ecosystem of middlemen trying to insert themselves into the Maduro-Trump conflict. Most have skin in the game, of course.