Freelance investigative journalist and security analyst in LatAm focusing on organized crime, corruption, and the people who fight it.
Former InSight Crime investigator. Read my work: https://muckrack.com/anastasia-austin-1
Anastasia
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U.S. Says It Will Revoke Colombian President’s Visa www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/u...
a bleak fable www.theguardian.com/environment/...
All this under the guise that the protests “are linked to organized crime and illegal mining.” Claims that have so far not been substantiated.
The “paro nacional’ has been going for almost a month. So far, security forces have killed one, injured dozens, and arrested hundreds.
In many videos, civilians can be heard shouting “we are not terrorists.”
“We’re scared and sad,” an indigenous organizer wrote me.
They have thrown indigenous leaders into prisons reserved for the most violent organized criminals.
Peru’s congress bet on ousting a rubber stamp president to pacify protestors in Lima. The bet has not come off. It may have even made things worse.
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Ecuador protests |Sources in Ecuador continue to share pretty disturbing videos with me. They show military members threatening civilians rifles, attacking, beating up, and kicking people after they’re down. 🪡
