Partner and international practice lead, global strategist in Washington effectively moving the policy needle
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Joined June 2013
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Let’s nominate @MariaCorinaYA for the Nobel Peace Prize. None better than she. Who’s with me? Re-post if you agree! #VenezuelaLibreYa #Venezuela
Really enjoyed the opportunity to discuss US midterms and implications for Latin America and the Caribbean with regional ambassadors, hosted by fabulous new Colombian ambassador Maria Consuelo Araujo, and to share the mic with @VandenbergCo head Carrie Filipetti. Excellent convo.
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Ambassador María Consuelo Araújo hosted fellow ambassadors from Latin America and the Caribbean in Washington for an exchange of perspectives on regional cooperation.
The discussion featured guest speakers Eric Farnsworth, Partner at Continental Strategy, and Carrie Filipetti, Executive Director of the Vandenberg Coalition, who offered insights into emerging regional dynamics, shared challenges and opportunities for closer hemispheric engagement.
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The assassination October 17 of Guatemalan ex-prosecutor Juan Francisco Solorzano Foppa, who flagged ties between gangs, organized crime, and Guatemalan elites raises fear that a red line has been crossed:
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El Salvador has deployed troops to Haiti to try to rescue four Salvadoran service members believed to have been captured by Haitian gangs, according to a spokesperson for a UN-authorized multinational security mission in Haiti known as the Gang Suppression Force. cnn.it/4zPgkbe
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AI is being used to rapidly exploit system vulnerabilities, creating an unprecedented threat, banks, military and government sites are all under assault
The AI tool and most of the attackers are all connected to China🇨🇳 These attacks are clearly state sponsored 🔽
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China-linked hackers used an AI tool to try breaking into more than 2,250 organizations, at up to 2,900 login attempts per minute. Defenders barely had time to react.
Microsoft says the group, Storm-0940, used ARTEX, an open-source AI penetration-testing framework, to automate its attack on ConnectWise’s cloud backup service. Microsoft published the attribution October 21.
The attack started with a password-spray campaign October 10-14 against 327 accounts at eight organizations, with over 151,000 failed logins. Then came the real breach. On October 15, the hackers used stolen credentials from ConnectWise’s Cloud Backup app to get into customers’ Microsoft 365 environments, bypassing individual passwords and, in many cases, MFA. In several cases, they gained privileged access in under three hours.
The targets: aerospace and defense, government, finance, energy, semiconductors, think tanks, and more.
Most attempts failed. But in many organizations, the attackers reached privileged cloud persistence, access that can survive basic cleanup. Microsoft stresses this wasn’t a flaw in its own products. It was abuse of permissions already granted to a trusted third-party app.
ARTEX isn’t new to this story. It was recently tied to breaches at South Korean financial institutions, and Microsoft says multiple threat actors now use it.
The old assumption was that sophisticated intrusions need skilled humans working slowly. This one ran at machine speed, and the only thing that stood between it and hundreds of networks was how fast defenders noticed.
Chinese-linked hackers compromise ConnectWise, target hundreds in global attack, Microsoft says reut.rs/4jvghMQ reut.rs/4jvghMQ
Tomorrow
October 22 shaping up to be a potentially interesting day in #Venezuela. Protests and possible counter protests on tap.
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#Colombia Colapso de una mina ilegal en el departamento de Nariño deja por lo menos 14 muertos cnnespanol.cnn.com/2026/10/2…
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Cutting off support to Ukraine, a key demand of Western “peace” advocates since 2022, merely amounts to crippling Ukraine’s ability to defend itself and assisting the army that committed Bucha.
They’re getting what they want.
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Bill Maher Says Democrats Are Turning Against Israel, Accuses Them of Playing Politics With Jews and Genocide Claims Ahead of 2028.
Host: “Do you believe that Israel, in one way or another, is on the ballot in 2028?”
Bill Maher: “Oh, absolutely. It is the litmus test of the Democratic Party.
I’ve been talking about it on my show a lot. I’m sure there are people, I won’t say who, many of them are in show business, and they see themselves as social justice warriors. They just don’t know anything. They just don’t have the facts. They just don’t have any perspective.
It’s a terrible war. I proved this with facts on my show a few weeks ago. It’s not a genocide. Genocide means when you attempt to, or do, if it’s successful, kill everyone in an ethnic group. Patricide means kill your father. Homicide means kill yourself. Fratricide means kill your brother. Genocide means you kill an entire group.
Okay, just go to even the Hamas numbers. It’s terrible that 3% of the population is dead.
Many of them were the enemy. They were fighters, and a lot of the other people were civilians that the enemy purposely put in harm’s way because they fight a propaganda war that way. So no matter how you cut it, it’s horrible and tragic. It’s just not a genocide.
You’re just changing a word. You’re just taking a word and making it something new because you don’t like these people.
You can hate the Jews. You can hate Israel. You can hate Netanyahu, but just don’t lie.
And the Democratic Party is at this place now where they demand that everybody tell this lie because they know that the TikTok people, they vote now. They’re the younger people. That’s where the energy is in the party.
And they somehow got it into their head, because they don’t know history, because they weren’t taught it, that Israel is the worst country ever, when actually, in the Middle East, it’s the only place their bratty asses would ever feel comfortable living would be Tel Aviv.”
Bill Maher argues that Israel will be a major litmus test for Democrats heading into the 2028 election. He criticizes people in show business and younger voters for what he sees as a lack of historical knowledge about Israel, rejects the characterization of the war as genocide, and accuses Democrats of catering to younger voters who oppose Israel.
Maher insists that people can criticize Israel, Jews, or Netanyahu, but should not distort the meaning of genocide.
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My God, they finally did it, the worst nightmare blunt rotation of all time.
Don’t hold your breath, @JMilei…there is little accountability or self-reflection from the commentariat which enjoys policy impunity
October 22 shaping up to be a potentially interesting day in #Venezuela. Protests and possible counter protests on tap.
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@USAmbUN the opened the event by telling diplomats that “for 67 years the Castro regime has sold the world a myth.... The lie is that the revolution liberated #Cuba, and that the Cuban people’s suffering is always someone else’s fault.” miamiherald.com/news/nation-…
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Florida AG speaks in Miami about Raul Castro arrest warrant. Points out with indictment by State of Florida - Federal government cannot lift or end it, unlike federal charges.
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Temu just settled with Texas after being sued for harvesting data from 82+ million Americans and exposing it to the Chinese government.
Texas filed suit in February accusing Temu of secretly collecting user data, misleading shoppers on discounts and product quality, and selling items that reports linked to toxic chemicals like PFAS in clothing, toys, and baby products.
The October 16 settlement forces Temu to store Texans’ personal data on U.S.-owned servers, block China-based access except for limited shipping needs, and face independent annual audits for spyware and hidden data collection. Fail an audit and they pay another $8 million.
On products, Temu must now remove recalled or unsafe items within two business days, test commonly purchased goods every year for lead, PFAS, and other harmful chemicals, and permanently cut off any seller caught with confirmed toxic products within five days.
Temu admitted nothing. It still agreed to strict new rules and paid Texas $3 million. Texas is the first state to lock this in. Others are watching.
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The problem for Lula is that he doesn't articulate well enough why he needs another four years when his party already governed for almost 18 years of the past 24
He's losing time trying to unmask Bolsonaro as a liar or corrupt. That's unlikely to move the independents Lula needs
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Very messy and mudded first part of the debate, but Bolsonaro appears more at ease with the format vs an uncomfortable Lula
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Isabel Allende acaba de ganar un millón de euros con el Premio Planeta, a los 84 años, y lo curioso no es el premio, sino lo poco que piensa gastar.
«Ahora no quiero cosas materiales. Mi casa es simple. Tengo un coche que tiene 15 años ya y no lo pienso cambiar. El teléfono, el ordenador, todo es viejo porque me voy a ir de este mundo muy pronto».
Vive en una casa pequeña que compró para ella sola cuando se separó, y que nunca pensó que acabaría compartiendo. Luego se enamoró de Roger Cukras y allí pasaron juntos el confinamiento. No colecciona libros ni ropa. Dice que todo se le ha simplificado.
Pero que nadie la confunda con una anciana: «Me veo vieja, que es distinto. La ancianidad es cuando uno depende de otras personas. Yo todavía tengo independencia, estoy muy sana y muy fuerte. Soy una vieja fuerte».
Quizá envejecer bien no es acumular más, sino necesitar cada vez menos para sentirte entero.
