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USA: నేటి నుంచే సోషల్ మీడియా వెట్టింగ్

USA: H1B, H4(డిపెండెంట్స్) వీసా దరఖాస్తుదారుల సోషల్ మీడియా ఖాతాలను అమెరికా ఇమ్మిగ్రేషన్ విభాగం ఇవాళ్టి నుంచి తనిఖీ చేయనుంది.

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Show threadbsmall2Mar 19, 2025

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> This murder rate of the world’s deadliest country was overtaken by Honduras two years later when they registered a rate of 86 homicides per 100,000 people. Then, in a type of final of the worst of sports, El Salvador took back the number one spot from Honduras in 2015 with a rate that had never been seen this century: 103 homicides per 100,000 people. This implies that in El Salvador one out of every 972 people was murdered in 2015.

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bsmall2Sep 28, 2024

Amy Wilentz is mentioned at the start of _Master at the Crossroads_ by Madison Smartt Bell. I read of both writers in work by Paul Farmer.

> One of the hallmarks of US policy in Haiti over the years has been to make demands that create conditions for future political failure, and then blame Haitian dysfunction for that inevitable collapse.

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/vance-blinken-haiti-us-aid/
#AmyWilentz #USAinHaiti #USApolicy #HaitiUSA

JD Vance’s Slanders Are Far From the Worst Thing the US Has Done to Haitians

After years of strenuously ignoring the country's agony, Secretary of State Antony Blinken finally visited Haiti last week. For five hours.

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Show threadBrian SmallJul 25, 2023

.> Why in the world would anyone want to resurrect Elliott Abrams?....> It is particularly risible that Abrams would be appointed to a position charged with maintaining integrity in U.S. public diplomacy.....> He was convicted in 1991 of two misdemeanor counts of unlawfully withholding information from Congress, but received a pardon from President George H.W. Bush. Lawrence Walsh, the independent counsel who investigated Iran-Contra, prepared multiple felony counts against Abrams, who eventually admitted that he knew more than he acknowledged in congressional testimony. Several years later, he was publicly sanctioned by the District of Columbia Bar for giving false testimony to Congress about Iran-Contra..> in the 1980s, Abrams regularly covered up atrocities committed by U.S.-backed military forces in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. He did the same for the Contras in Nicaragua, and, as a result, was heavily criticized by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. The Lawyers Committee, Americas Watch, and Helsinki Watch collaborated on a report in the mid-1980s that charged Abrams with “undermining the purpose of the human rights bureau in the State Department.” #ElliotAbrams #USApolicy #USApresidents #PublicDiplomacy in #ElSalvador #Guatemala #IranContra #Honduras #HumanRightsWatch #AmnestyInternational #LawyersCommittee #AmericasWatch #HelsinkiWatch #HumanRights #USAstateDepartment #Nicaragua


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Show threadBrian SmallJul 24, 2023

.> After the coup President Allende was found dead inside the presidential palace. Whether he was killed or whether he killed himself, we’ll never know. In the regime of terror that ensured, thousands of people were killed. Many more simply “disappeared”. Firing squads conducted public executions. Concentration camps and torture chambers were opened across the country. The dead were buried in mine shafts and unmarked graves. For seventeen years the people of Chile lived in dread of the midnight knock, of routine “disappearances”, of sudden arrest and torture. Chileans tell the story of how the musician Victor Jara had his hands cut off in front of a crowd in the Santiago stadium. Before they shot him, Pinochet’s soldiers threw his guitar at him and mockingly asked him to play.
.> In 1999, following the arrest of General Pinochet in Britain, thousands of secret documents were declassified by the U.S. government. They contain unequivocal evidence of the CIA’s involvement in the coup as well as the fact that the U.S. government had detailed information about the situation in Chile during General Pinochet’s reign. Yet, Kissinger assured the general of his support: “In the United States as you know, we are sympathetic to what you’re trying to do,” he said. “We wish your government well.” https://dharma-records.buddhasasana.net/texts/arundhati-roys-speech-come-september

#ArundhatiRoy in #ComeSeptember on #VictorJara #Pinochet and #HenryKissinger #USApolicy with #GeneralPInochet in #Santiago
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Arundhati Roy’s Speech: Come September – Dharma Records