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Cuban American Proud Boys Leader Worked as Informant for FBI

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Enrique Tarrio, 36-year-old Miami-based, Cuban American leader of the extremist group the Proud Boys, worked undercover for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, this according to a former prosecutor and a 2014 federal court transcript obtained exclusively by Reuters. According to the former prosecutor, and FBI agent and Tarrio’s lawyer, Tarrio helped the Bureau prosecute 13 […]

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Johnson & Johnson Announces Efficacy Rate of One-Dose Vaccine & More in Today’s News

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Las Notis is a daily news column that gets you up to speed on the political, media + other going ons in Latin America and the diaspora—all in one quick digest. Here’s your glimpse at what’s going on today: Johnson & Johnson announced that its one-dose coronavirus vaccine offers protections from COVID-19, though its efficacy […]

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The return of Yma Sumac: label to showcase singer to new generation

a classic wonderful singer

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Peruvian vocalist’s album will be first in a series of reissues by Madrid-based label aiming to highlight female singers from Latin America

Few popular singers have boasted a five-octave range. Even fewer have claimed they were descended from the last Inca emperor and schooled in song by “the creatures of the forest”.

And fewer still have appeared in a Charlton Heston film that helped inspire Indiana Jones, toured the USSR, been namechecked in Vanessa Paradis’ Joe le Taxi, won a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and been adopted as an LGBTQ+ icon.

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Facebook is banning leftwing users like me – and it’s going largely unnoticed | Akin Olla

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Facebook placed a number of leftwing organizers on a restricted list during Biden’s inauguration. It’s part of a much bigger problem

In response to the fascist riot at the US Capitol, Facebook engaged in a flurry of dangerous and misguided corporate authoritarianism. I, along with a number of other leftwing organizers, was deemed a threat to the inauguration of Joe Biden and placed on a restricted list that limited my ability to communicate with others. My account could no longer create Facebook groups or events, two tools that I’ve used over the last decade to coordinate protests and build entire organizations. I was also banned from commenting in Facebook groups, liking Facebook pages, and messaging Facebook pages. The restriction was to be removed the Saturday after the inauguration, but it only fully ceased apparently after public backlash. This is part of a long history of Facebook treating leftwing activists as if they were far-right extremists, and a pattern of silencing those who speak out against racism and fascism.

Facebook’s latest sweep went relatively unnoticed by most media outlets and was simply framed as a restriction of events in and around Washington DC leading up to the inauguration. Gizmodo was one of the first publications to pick up the story but the majority of its article barely mentions the fact that leftwing users in the United States were targeted and effectively silenced. Most of the relevant content of the article was pulled directly from a blog post from Facebook itself. Gizmodo, like most other outlets that reported on the decision, seemed to imply that these bans were a net positive and, if anything, a little later than it would have preferred.

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Putin signs last-minute extension to nuclear weapons treaty with US

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Russian president spoke to Joe Biden earlier in the week about arms control pact due to lapse in February

Vladimir Putin has signed a bill extending the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between Russia and the United States a week before the pact was due to expire.

Both houses of the Russian parliament voted unanimously on Wednesday to extend the New Start treaty for five years. Putin and the US president, Joe Biden, had discussed the nuclear accord a day earlier, and the Kremlin said they agreed to complete the necessary extension procedures in the next few days.

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