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Mexico City Bureau Chief for The New York Times, leading our coverage of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. Corresponsal en México del New York Times. 🇲🇽 Ex-correspondente do NYT no Brasil. 🇧🇷 https://www.nytimes.com/by/jack-nicas

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A New U.S. Blockade Is Strangling Cuba

Trump has pledged to halt any oil headed to Cuba, but his administration won't call it a blockade. But it's functioning as one — pushing 10 million people toward a humanitarian crisis and its government to the brink. My latest w/ @jacknicas.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/w...

20.02.2026 16:06 — 👍 32    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 1
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Thursday’s @nytimes.com front page

08.01.2026 02:17 — 👍 15    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 1
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A Test for Venezuela’s New Leader: Solidifying Power, but Pleasing Trump

Delcy Rodríguez on Saturday: “What is being done to Venezuela is a barbarity.”

Delcy Rodríguez on Sunday: “We extend an invitation to the U.S. government to work together on a cooperative agenda."

What a difference a day makes.

Gift link: nyti.ms/4jmMYdc

05.01.2026 12:58 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 2
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Maduro’s Capture Shows Trump’s Goal to Dominate the Americas

The U.S. attack on Venezuela shook Latin America more than any event this century — but its meaning depends on whom you ask.

Yet one thing everyone can agree on: The U.S. is once again the center of gravity in Latin America, for better or worse.

My NYT analysis — free to read: nyti.ms/3Luzz6k

05.01.2026 11:15 — 👍 43    🔁 15    💬 19    📌 4
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Free link: nyti.ms/49YQF6b

18.11.2025 20:34 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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The ‘Donroe Doctrine’: Trump’s Bid to Control the Western Hemisphere

The Western Hemisphere has become the United States’ central theater abroad.

My analysis on the "Donroe Doctrine" and how it has upended politics up and down the Americas.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/w...

18.11.2025 20:33 — 👍 44    🔁 9    💬 8    📌 3
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What the U.S. Can Learn from Bolsonaro’s Coup Conviction KQED's Forum · Episode

🎧 Listen to the podcast!

@juliavargasjones.bsky.social, @julianadalpiva.bsky.social and @jacknicas.bsky.social spoke with @mina-kim.bsky.social about what the U.S. can learn from Brazil’s effort to hold its leaders accountable.

🔗: buff.ly/IedLBfq

25.09.2025 00:30 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Brazil Keeps Telling Trump to Get Lost

It’s one more example of the essay I wrote in the New York Times yesterday:

Brazil Keeps Telling Trump to Get Lost

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/w...

14.09.2025 23:12 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | Lula: Brazilian Democracy and Sovereignty Are Non-Negotiable

“I decided to write this essay to establish an open and frank dialogue with the president of the United States.”

President Lula’s message to Trump in the New York Times today.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...

14.09.2025 23:12 — 👍 14    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 3
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🙂 We all make mistakes.

14.09.2025 06:22 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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“.. The U.S. needs to know it’s not dealing with a banana republic.”

@nytimes.com 🇧🇷
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/w...

13.09.2025 18:11 — 👍 814    🔁 178    💬 34    📌 10

Congratulations to the Guardian team on this important new podcast about the murder of a British journalist and Brazilian environmentalist in the Amazon rainforest.

06.06.2025 12:21 — 👍 21    🔁 3    💬 4    📌 0
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How Brazil’s Rare Earths Mine Illustrates China’s Grip Over Minerals (Gift Article) A Brazilian rare earths mine backed by American investors illustrates China’s grip over the strategic minerals that underpin the modern economy.

This mine in Brazil backed by American investors produces some of the world's hardest-to-find rare earths. It could be the West's best hedge against China's rare-earth dominance.

There's one problem: It is contracted to sell all its rare earths to China.
nyti.ms/3Y25EWg

17.04.2025 00:25 — 👍 203    🔁 54    💬 22    📌 8
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Every Last Drop Every Last Drop Fifty years of damage isn’t enough. A new race for oil is underway in the Amazon. STORIES CLICK ON THE COUNTRIES' NAMES TO READ THE

This is a very impressive package of reporting from
@infoamazonia.org on the new race for oil in the Amazon rainforest: infoamazonia.org/en/project/e...

08.04.2025 17:26 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Did Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Order a Murder in Chile? The discovery of Ronald Ojeda’s body encased in concrete in Chile has raised new fears over how far President Nicolás Maduro will go to keep his stranglehold on Venezuela.

Shortly after 3 a.m., a battering ram burst open the door to a 14th-floor apartment and three men dressed in the black tactical gear of the Chilean police rushed in.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/w... via @nytimes.com @jacknicas.bsky.social Pascale Bonnefoy @jwbartlett92.bsky.social

10.02.2025 16:15 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Mirroring Trump, Milei Pulls Argentina From W.H.O. President Javier Milei has sought to align Argentina with President Trump, even if it means breaking with previous allies and partners.

Milei just pulled Argentina out of the World Health Organization, following Trump.

It reflects Milei’s effort to align his nation with Trump’s scorched-earth approach to the international order, even if it comes at the expense of Argentina’s partners.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/w...

05.02.2025 20:28 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Inside a Chaotic U.S. Deportation Flight to Brazil (Gift Article) The Trump administration’s first flight deporting Brazilians involved aborted takeoffs, sweltering heat, emergency exits and shackled deportees on a wing.

Aborted takeoffs, sweltering heat, emergency exits and shackled deportees on a wing.

Inside the chaotic deportation flight to Brazil:

w/ @juhfaddul.bsky.social

nyti.ms/4ggT0ZS

29.01.2025 01:07 — 👍 167    🔁 65    💬 8    📌 5

New bluesky users: The Brazilians beat you here.

After Brazil blocked X because Elon broke the law there, millions of Brazilians took refuge here.

That's great news for you; the Brazilians are very good at the internet.

bsky.app/profile/bsky...

13.11.2024 18:53 — 👍 16    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

"Follow all" is a good button.

13.11.2024 18:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Israel’s Bloody Cycle of War Against Hamas Returns to North Gaza Israel said its forces had returned to northern Gaza to fight a Hamas resurgence. That has brought a new round of suffering for residents.

The past five weeks in North Gaza has been one of the deadliest moments of the war.

If you want to understand what has happened and why, this is the piece that explains it. As you can imagine, it's distressing:

nyti.ms/4el4vOQ

13.11.2024 18:42 — 👍 13    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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Elon Musk no governo Trump: o que se sabe e o que falta saber sobre seu futuro cargo | Eleições nos EUA 2024 | G1

Quem leu Limite de Caracteres viu que o cara é tudo menos eficiente. Sim, é bom em fazer cortes, mas não em transformar isso em eficiência.

13.11.2024 12:44 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Limite de caracteres: Como Elon Musk destruiu o Twitter | Amazon.com.br Compre online Limite de caracteres: Como Elon Musk destruiu o Twitter, de Conger, Kate, Mac, Ryan, Delfini, Mariana, Schwartz, Christian, Mattos, Bruno, Lanius, Marcela, Allen, Chris na Amazon. Frete GRÁTIS em milhares de produtos com o Amazon Prime. Encontre diversos livros escritos por Conger, Kate, Mac, Ryan, Delfini, Mariana, Schwartz, Christian, Mattos, Bruno, Lanius, Marcela, Allen, Chris com ótimos preços.

Somos repórteres do New York Times que cobrem o Elon Musk e Twitter há anos, e escrevemos o livro que conta o que aconteceu nos bastidores quando Musk comprou o Twitter e o transformou no X.

Hoje nosso livro sai em português no Brasil. Compra aqui: www.amazon.com.br/dp/655692729...

07.10.2024 20:00 — 👍 85    🔁 20    💬 2    📌 2

Pois é

08.10.2024 17:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ou você pode comprar o livro.

08.10.2024 17:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Meus colegas do New York Times escreveram o livro que conta o que aconteceu nos bastidores quando Elon Musk comprou o Twitter e o transformou no X.

Hoje o livro saiu em português no Brasil:

a.co/d/4VC4Dta

07.10.2024 19:47 — 👍 57    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0
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Musk Finds a Way Around Brazil’s X Ban Elon Musk’s social media platform used a technical maneuver to restore service for many Brazilians after a court blocked it. Blocking it again would be difficult, experts said.

What to know about X’s status in Brazil: nyti.ms/3zo64Nz

18.09.2024 20:33 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Brazilian Politician Upends Debate by Hitting Opponent With Chair The stunning attack on live television is likely to reorder the race to lead São Paulo, Latin America’s largest city.

It was a stunning moment, even for Brazil, where outrageous political antics are routine. During a televised debate, a politician hit his rival with an iron chair, sending him to hospital.

Story with @jacknicas.bsky.social for @nytimes.com

nyti.ms/47BCHnK

17.09.2024 00:11 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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Brazilian Politician Upends Debate by Hitting Opponent With Chair The stunning attack on live television is likely to reorder the race to lead São Paulo, Latin America’s largest city.

Deu no New York Times: a cadeirada.

com @anaionova.bsky.social

nyti.ms/3zmSDxm

16.09.2024 22:32 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1
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Brazilian Court Makes One Musk Company Pay Fines of Another A Brazilian Supreme Court justice said that because Elon Musk controlled both X and Starlink, one company was responsible for the fines of the other.

Brazil’s Supreme Court had a problem: Elon Musk's social network, X, was not paying fines and had already been blocked across the nation.

So the court took an unusual maneuver: It made a different Musk-controlled company help settle the bill.

nyti.ms/4d5P9wQ

13.09.2024 20:16 — 👍 17    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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They Had Thriving Lives on X, Until Brazil Banned It Overnight The ban on Elon Musk’s X has dealt a blow to Brazilians whose livelihoods depended on internet followings they had amassed for years, and which disappeared overnight.

Para brasileiros que construíram seus negócios no X, o bloqueio da rede social de Elon Musk foi um choque. De um dia para outro, tiveram que buscar outras plataformas para alcançar clientes, patrocinadores e seguidores.

Matéria no @nytimes.com, com ajuda de @jacknicas.bsky.social

bit.ly/3MAy7wa

09.09.2024 18:57 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0