@NPR's Correspondent in Mexico City. Formerly in Nairobi and Cape Town. tips, complaints: eperalta (at) https://nitter.cf/t.co/6L0OLRjyvG
Mexico City, Mexico
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Our work in East Africa was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Audio reporting. It recognizes a year of relentless reporting in region in the grips of war and political turmoil. Our submitted work is here. Take a listen! bit.ly/3wm8jva
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Nicaraguan journalist Luis Galeano, stripped of citizenship for opposing the Ortega government, has been detained by Trump's ICE, even though his asylum application has been pending for seven years, and he has a work permit and a social security number. trib.al/PC3yRR5
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@CPJAmericas ha elaborado una maravillosa campaña a favor de la liberación de Luis Galeano, periodista Nicaragüense detenido por ICE mientras se encuentras en proceso de asilo.
libertadparaluisgaleano.com/
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It’s important @DHSgov protect this journalist. He’s an important voice of freedom and he has a legitimate case of asylum - he should not be deported, on the contrary, put him in front of any immigration judge and grant him asylum. @RepMariaSalazar @MarioDB we need your voice.
ALERTA INTERNACIONAL | Luis Galeano
Solicitamos atención y seguimiento urgente a la detención del periodista nicaragüense exiliado Luis Galeano, de Café con Voz, quien mantiene un proceso de asilo activo en EE. UU.
Pedimos garantías de debido proceso, acceso a representación legal y pleno respeto de sus derechos.
@pressfreedom @RSF_inter @RELE_CIDH
#LuisGaleano #CafeConVoz #PressFreedom #Nicaragua
@TifaniRoberts
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I recently joined @NPR Weekend Edition's Eyder Peralta @eyderp to talk about Borderlands and the experiences that shaped both the book and my belief in America’s future. I hope you’ll listen: npr.org/2026/08/15/nx-s1-590…
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Going to need more time to digest this doozy of a report.
But a skim already reveals highly questionable assertions that perversely replicate how Cuban govt portrays internal dissent as nothing but a foreign plot.
It's selective, infuriating history.
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The 15 Latin Americans deported from the US to Kinshasa are holed up in a hotel by the airport, where there are water cuts, rats, and lots of mosquitoes. They have no passports, don't speak French, and have no idea what comes next. My story for @NPR: npr.org/2026/04/28/nx-s1-579…
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Why did Dave Chappelle agree to a comedy show in Saudi Arabia?
Why does he live in Yellow Springs, Ohio?
And why did he pay for a new headquarters for the NPR station there?
Just an amazing NPR Newsmakers conversation with Michel Martin.
youtu.be/3zEbK4VPNO8?si=vHIo…
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A must-listen - @eyderp on today's State of the World pod from NPR. And pls listen to the end. At 9pm Venezuelan families begin their ritual cry out to loved ones in prison. First silence. Then from the jail comes a response. I still have goose bumps. npr.org/2026/04/03/nx-s1-577…
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A friend of a survivor on the boat off Cuba tells @NPR @eyderp what the group’s aims were
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Hey, look! Weekend Edition is coming to you from Mexico City! We talk World Cup, social media bans and we run a profile of Carlos Manzo, the slain mayor of Uruapan.
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Today, on NPR's first day free of federal funds, @LeilaFadel said on Up First: "We will not easily be silenced. We will continue to be advocates for the truth--for facts. We will ask the questions our listeners, the American public, want the answers to, even if those we're asking don't like our questions."
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In this clip, @ErinBurnett of @CNN asks how I am handling the pressure on media.
My answer: We have freedom of speech and the press. We may pay a price for exercising it. Our job is to accept that, humbly do the best work we can, and make sure we can defend it.
Here’s a deputy Secretary of State ordering the cancellation of an apparently non existent visa over a Tweet that supported the protests in Los Angeles.
🇺🇸 EE.UU. cancela visa a consejera estatal de Morena
El subsecretario de Estado, Christopher Landau (@DeputySecState) habría ordenado cancelar la visa de Melissa Cornejo (@melishcs), consejera estatal de #Morena en Jalisco, tras un mensaje considerado ofensivo.
📄@GildoGarzaMx
Ruth Lopez’s lawyer says a judge has ordered that these proceedings are under seal. The government has publicly accused Lopez of “misappropriation of state funds.” Lopez in this video says she’s being targeted because she has uncovered corruption in @nayibbukele’s government.
#LoÚltimo | Decretan Instrucción Formal con Detención Provisional, por el delito de enriquecimiento ilícito, para la Abogada Ruth Eleonora López Alfaro. La @FGR_SV tiene 6 meses para ampliar las investigaciones.
Vía @GerardoJvlYSKL
“I am a political prisoner!” Ruth López shouts, as her hearing ends in El Salvador. “I want a public trial,” reiterates.
📢 #ACTUALIZACIÓN | Tras concluir la audiencia inicial, un juez decretó detención provisional para Ruth, según informó su defensa.
🗣️ “¡Soy una presa política! Las acusaciones son por denunciar la corrupción del gobierno. No hay instituciones que garanticen derechos.”
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“No me van a callar” “Un juicio público quiero”: ingresó de la abogada Ruth López a las instalaciones del Centro Judicial Isidro Menéndez para la audiencia inicial.
Hey, look it's a doggie bus in Mexico City. #PalateCleanser npr.org/2025/06/04/g-s1-7012…
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It's worth reading the entire 7-page 4th Circuit ruling rejecting Trump's appeal in the Abrego Garcia case. I've never read anything quite like it. It's an elegy to the end of the country as they've and we've known it. It rues "all that might have been."
storage.courtlistener.com/re…
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This is your must-listen for today.
Michel was polite and persistent. Relentless sharp follow-ups.
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Some pretty stunning answers here from DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar in today's interview with NPR's Michel Martin, in which Edgar equates pro-Palestinian protests with terrorist activity and can't point to any crime committed by Mahmoud Khalil: npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-532…
Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has dealt with a belligerent American president with stoicism. “Cool heads,” she keeps telling the Mexican people. Here @rodriguezmonos captures the dynamic in a stunning illustration in the latest edition of Proceso.
