Andrew Sage

sure at least on my end i suggest looking into our local news now it's not the best source in terms of actual interrogation of the issues and the ways in which the some of the narratives just kind of get repeated uncritically but you do get at least the occasional interview the occasional quote from a non-us state department source

I would also suggest on Instagram, there are a couple of pages that bring a more radical, progressive voice from the Caribbean.

There's a page called Vintage Caribbean, and there's another page called Trinbago for Palestine.

And both of those have been doing a lot of coverage on this particular incident lately.

So you can look to those as well if you want to get a sort of a grassroots take on the situation.

Yeah, I don't really have any go-to sources on this.

I would say that it's enough of an international incident that all the major news sources are covering it.

So you can read really any news source in Latin America if you speak Spanish Portuguese and see how that reporting is different.

Also, incidentally, El Pais in Spain, you know, colonos on the side, they do pretty good reporting.

And they've been doing pretty good reporting.

And there's lots of blogs as well.

And, you know, newsletters that you can check out.

I will say, just maybe this, I'm biased because I focus a lot on crime.

The site Insight Crime is pretty good in terms of looking into specific criminal groups like Render Agua and calling a question if, you know, if this really is a, you know, it's something that is controlled by the puppet master from Miraflores, you know, like Maduro and some of these, some of these narratives that are justifying this.

I'd also just as a recommendation, I would say,

Maybe we should be a little bit skeptical, too, about the timing and the purposes of these things.

I did point out in a piece that I wrote for the Center for International Policy that the first boat strike happened on the same day the House Judiciary Committee was releasing a redacted number of files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case.

And I think that there are many reasons why this administration would like to

use this confrontation uh as a convenient distraction from uh from other things that uh they would rather not be talking about yeah bleak i think it's probably a reasonable conclusion given where we're at uh where can people find both of you on uh if they want to follow you online on uh on social media or uh

find more of your writing.