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Fran Blandy
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Fran Blandy
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AFP correspondent in Brazil, based in Rio de Janeiro. Previously Montevideo, Paris, Nairobi, Dakar, South Africa.
Rio de Janeiro Katılım Mart 2009
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Climate change doubled the likelihood of the historic floods in southern Brazil and amplified intense rains caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon, scientists said.
u.afp.com/5e3Q by @franblandy
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Dix-sept sujets de dispute pour animer votre réveillon : Gaza, XV de France, loi « immigration »… 🎄 lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/…
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Attention everyone! We're hosting a competition to uncover the Craziest Moment in LatAm Politics of 2023.
We welcome all suggestions for wild moments from this year. Share your recommendations, and stay tuned for the upcoming survey!
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i've watched this maybe 50 times already. it is rich in detail. you can see the disappointment, the fatigue in hugh's eyes as he finishes his petit french sentence. the half-second long smirk at the end tells a story of lost youth, dysphoria by commercialism
claire rowden@clx1re
hugh grant’s “je joue le oompa loompa” is sending me
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Maria Mamani carries a fistful of new price stickers around a supermarket after Argentina's new government slashed the value of the peso in half -- part of what Buenos Aires says is "shock" therapy to the ailing economy.
u.afp.com/55gU by @franblandy
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'Still delayed' - everyone is running out of ways to speculate over what 'shock' measures await Argentina's economy. Technical issues apparently mean the pre-recorded message had to be re-recorded. No hay plata, no hay tecnicos y no hay Caputo
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It's been "instants away" for an hour and a half now. Apparently they are re-recording it. There are at least five theories as to why. I might go to the bathroom to see if I can trigger the announcement via manipulation of sod's law 🙄
Amy Booth@AmyBwrites
Milei's economy minister Luis Caputo is supposed to be announcing economic policies any minute now. We're probably expecting a brutal devaluation and a bunch of austerity, the question is what...
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Milei's new government is apparently struggling to find the button to press play on this pre-recorded message of economic measures
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We really have to give credit to the new Argentinian President for the seating arrangement that allowed Zelensky to finally corner and tear into obese ratfucker Orban, totally unencumbered.
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Though he ends speeches by shouting “Viva la libertad, carajo,” Milei has mellowed in many ways.
That’s good, I told @AFP: “Milei the firebrand, surrounded only by his loyalists and playing to his aggrieved base, would not have lasted a month in office.”
news.yahoo.com/javier-milei-o…
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Someone needs to study what happens to men with ungovernable hair ..... what's the capillary causation here?
Populism Updates@PopulismUpdates
This is just incredibly accurate. Even if you support these guys you have to admit this is spiritually true
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Javier Milei habló hoy con David Cameron, ministro de Asuntos Exteriores del Reino Unido, pero la Oficina del Presidente Electo dice que habló con James Cameron.
Se viene una gran película.
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To U.S. reporters every right-wing outsider anywhere in the world is “Donald Trump,” this column notes. The latest: Javier Milei in Argentina. He might be a firebrand outsider, but the similarities with Trump don't go too deep. nationalreview.com/2023/11/javier…
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I’ll call your stories-about-Pablo-Escobar’s-hippos and raise you stories-on-Argentina’s-election-with-Don’t-Cry-For-Me-in-the-headline.
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President-elect Javier Milei once appeared singing about the economic crisis of Argentina while dressed as General Ancap, his superhero alter ego.
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