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Franco Rodríguez Massó

@frodriguezmasso.bsky.social

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Latin Americanist (Lit. Hist. Pol.) Escritor, Profe. Lector, Latina/o/x Studies. ✍🏼 Descomposiciones; Bolaño: Investigador Desvelado; Las instrucciones (2025); Terror (2026)🇵🇷 ☕ 🥑🦀💚🌎

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Franco Rodríguez Massó @frodriguezmasso.bsky.social · Jun 16

www.thenation.com/article/worl...

From the Americas to Gaza, the Conquest Never Ends

Cortés has given way to Netanyahu, Putin, and Trump. A new age of conquest is upon us.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Filmin @filmin.es · 6d

Todos los ojos en Palestina. Una colección para no dejar de mirar.

www.filmin.es/coleccion/co...

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Franco Rodríguez Massó @frodriguezmasso.bsky.social · 14d

No President Should Have This Kind of Power www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Opinion | No President Should Have This Kind of Power

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Franco Rodríguez Massó @frodriguezmasso.bsky.social · 21d

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Kafka-land at UC Berkeley

The 160 members of the university notified that their names were forwarded to the DOE’s Office for Civil Rights were not informed of any specific allegations against them.

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Cecilia Grierson ⭐️⭐️⭐️ @ceciliaencina.bsky.social · 22d

🇵🇸 “¿Hasta cuándo no vamos a aplicar las medidas que podrían salvar a 600 mil personas hoy mismo?”.

El cierre de @lauraarroyo.bsky.social
en #ElTablero

📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TojX...

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Franco Rodríguez Massó @frodriguezmasso.bsky.social · 23d

They Came for the Oil. They Took Everything. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...

Opinion | They Came for the Oil. They Took Everything.

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Franco Rodríguez Massó @frodriguezmasso.bsky.social · 25d

Brazil Keeps Telling Trump to Get Lost www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/w...

Brazil Keeps Telling Trump to Get Lost

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Yuri Herrera @yuriherrera.bsky.social · 26d

Los palestinos se niegan a abandonar su tierra a pesar de los crímenes que diariamente cometen en su contra los genocidas.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 26d

BREAKING: Gaza’s government media office says more than 1.3 million Palestinians remain in Gaza City and the north despite Israel’s relentless bombardment and forced evacuation threats.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/v3qfml

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Franco Rodríguez Massó @frodriguezmasso.bsky.social · Sep 9

www.thenation.com/article/worl...

With the Strike on a “Drug-Carrying Boat,” Trump Returns to a Dangerous US Policy for Latin America

The attack on a ship off the Venezuelan coast is the first time the US has carried out a deadly military operation on its own in Latin America since the 1989 invasion of Panama.

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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · Jul 16

I wonder, if we truly believe we are so much better than other species, why have we spent thousands of years driving home the point?

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Franco Rodríguez Massó @frodriguezmasso.bsky.social · Jul 25

127 and counting....

Franco Rodríguez Massó @frodriguezmasso.bsky.social · Jul 25

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A Dreadful Anniversary: Puerto Rico Has Been a U.S. Colony for 125 Years Now

Why the independence movement, not statehood, is the future of the island’s liberation

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Franco Rodríguez Massó @frodriguezmasso.bsky.social · Jul 25

es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caso_de...

Caso del cerro Maravilla - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Jul 23

The distance between what is in happening Gaza, fully backed with US dollars and political support, and the reaction of American politicians who by and large just don’t seem to care or support it is just completely brain-breaking.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...

Aid Groups Blame Israel’s Gaza Restrictions for ‘Mass Starvation’

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Jorell Meléndez-Badillo @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social · Jun 25

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@santiaaurora.bsky.social and I are guest curating Pablo Delano's new exhibit, "cuestiones caribeñas/caribbean matters: assemblage and sculpture by pablo delano" at the Chazen Museum at @uwmadison.bsky.social.

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Pablo Delano Centers Complex Caribbean Histories in New Exhibition at Chazen Museum of Art - Chazen Museum of Art

‘cuestiones caribeñas/caribbean matters’ confronts colonialism and highlights shared experiences across the archipelago MADISON, Wis. — Grapple with the Caribbean’s complex contradictions and engage i...

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Franco Rodríguez Massó @frodriguezmasso.bsky.social · Jul 13

www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Will the Trump Administration Face Headwinds as It Tightens the Noose Around Cuba? (Yes.)

Now it’s aiming at Cuba’s international medical missions.

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J Patrice McSherry @jpmcsherry.bsky.social · Jul 12

11 de julio, Día del Periodista: Reivindicar el compromiso por los Derechos Humanos y el cuestionamiento al poder www.elciudadano.com/chile/11-de-...

11 de julio, Día del Periodista: Reivindicar el compromiso por los Derechos Humanos y el cuestionamiento al poder

El 11 de Julio se conmemora en Chile de forma oficial el Día del Periodista, recordando la fecha de fundación del Colegio que agrupa al gremio (año 1956).

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EcoTienda La Chiwinha @lachiwinha.bsky.social · Jul 5

Defendamos el Escambron!

Documental sobre la defensa del espacio público ante la privatización de esta playa en Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

youtu.be/zeKcInKTGXQ?...