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Francisco Toro
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Founder: Caracas Chronicles.
Chief Content Officer: Group of 50.
Columnist: Washington Post Global Opinion.
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And if you gaze long into an abyss,
the abyss will also gaze into you.
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She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning,
standing four feet ten in one sock.
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The Externalization of the will as
subjective or moral will is action.
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The difficulty is to try to teach
the multitude that something can
be true and untrue at the same time.
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Kayla Webley Adler
@kaylawebley
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I’ve been so impressed with how @KarenAttiah has been handling the disappearance and likely murder of her writer Jamal #Khashoggi, so I called her up talk to about what she’s going through right now. Here’s what she had to say:
marieclaire.com/politics/a2386…
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Francisco Toro
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Dream big, Julia...
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Josh Marshall
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This is 100% correct. I watched it up close. This deception not only spawned an infinity of pivots to video, it radically shifted the priorities of the whole ad industry. twitter.com/dyfl/status/10…
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Francisco Toro
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I really like this piece because it illustrates the Jenga Tower theory of Trump mistakes. When you're playing Jenga, you get away with some mistakes. But the risk involved in each subsequent mistake doesn't grow arithmetically, it grows exponentially. Trump is on mistake like 12.
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Dany Bahar
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Mendoza fue apoyo la creación de la agencia international de #refugiados (@Refugees). Tuvo la vision que los inmigrantes y refugiados fortalecerían la economía Venezolana, y así lo hicieron. A #Venezuela llegaron Italianos, Españoles, Portugueses, Sirios, Libaneses, etc 2/4 pic.twitter.com/jzQ67MZZ4i
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Dany Bahar
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El abuelo de @leopoldolopez, Eduardo Mendoza Goiticoa, a sus 28 años asumió el Ministerio de Agricultura bajo el 1er gobierno de Betancourt. Una de sus banderas fue recibir #refugiados escapando de la 2da Guerra Mundial 1/4 pic.twitter.com/N7zb4mBKob
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Francisco Toro
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This is appalling.
They're called latinx cows. twitter.com/nbc4i/status/8…
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Francisco Toro
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Bueno, except the life of a black hacienda worker in 1825 was basically indistinguishable from his life in 1875, our 1915 for that matter.
Landowners kept absolute authority with our without legal slavery.
There wasn't really a functioning legal system, our access to courts.
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Francisco Toro
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So proud right now twitter.com/cbudoffbrown/s…
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Michael Reid
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"As Venezuela's economy has collapsed, the lines separating the state from criminal enterprises have all but disappeared." Searing, realistic article by @MoisesNaim + @QuicoToro
foreignaffairs.com/articles/south… via @ForeignAffairs
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Francisco Toro
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On the current trajectory, this is what the news cycle should be looking like around March or April next year... pic.twitter.com/CCGJMIncvc
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Francisco Toro
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Yesterday's News Cycle: 1/1024th Native American! I'd like to see you top that...
Today's News Cycle: Hold. My. Beer. twitter.com/StormyDaniels/…
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Francisco Toro
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From that point of view, what's happening now is *not* weird.
It's the opposite of weird.
We became what virtually every poor country that finds oil becomes: a petrokleptocracy built to safeguard the interests of a ruling clique totally indifferent to normal people's lives.
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Francisco Toro
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The real oddity — the weirdo departure from the norm calling out for an explanation — is how the Venezuela of the 1920s sprouted the political culture of 1958.
What's weird is that *that* basketcase of a country managed to sustain a democratic experiment for 40 years.
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Francisco Toro
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That's the pattern in pretty much *every* autocracy that finds oil...Brunei, Angola, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Algeria, Indonesia...it's happened virtually everywhere when a country finds oil before it consolidates a democracy.
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Francisco Toro
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When a country like Venezuela in the 20s finds huge mineral wealth, the kind of politics that follows is pretty predictable.
The dictator uses the minimal wealth to entrench dynastic rule, hoarding all mineral rents and doling them out as patronage.
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