Max Meulendijks

What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

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Piggy

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Some examples from the book are Hispanicised Aztec people being asked to gather more indigenous knowledge about the American flora & fauna from locals.
Medical knowledge being retrieved by observing African slaves on their subsistence farms, or a Polynesian navigator helping Cook reach Fiji, etc.

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Not sure if exactly what you're looking for, but I found "Horizons: A Global History of Science" by James Poskett to be a very approachable and instructive book on non-Western influences on Western knowledge + vice versa

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Text from a Guardian live update: Dutch prime minister Mette Frederiksen on Monday reiterated Denmark’s position that Greenland is “not for sale”, despite Donald Trump’s repeated suggestion that it be acquired by the US for strategic reasons.

In a surprise move, which experts say will improve its negotiation position, Denmark appears to have annexed the Netherlands. The Guardian has the scoop.

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