Belén Fernández

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Belén Fernández

Belén Fernández is the author of Inside Siglo XXI: Locked Up in Mexico’s Largest Immigration Detention Center (OR Books, 2022), Checkpoint Zipolite: Q... uarantine in a Small Place (OR Books, 2021), Exile: Rejecting America and Finding the World (OR Books, 2019), Martyrs Never Die: Travels through South Lebanon (Warscapes, 2016), and The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work (Verso, 2011). She is a contributing editor at Jacobin Magazine, and has written for the New York Times, the London Review of Books blog, Current Affairs, and Middle East Eye, among numerous other publications.


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Trump’s proposed land grab in Gaza is an especially egregious manifestation of Orientalist psychosis.

Destruction in Jabalia after Israel forces withdraw

In a Mexican city already devastated by US policies, mass deportations are only bringing more misery.

Margelis Tinoco, a migrant from Colombia

The destructive policies Trump outlined at his inauguration may indeed make an escape to other planets more appealing.

U.S. President Donald Trump reacts while signing executive orders during a rally on the inauguration day of his second Presidential term, inside Capital One, in Washington, U.S. January 20, 2025. REUTERS/Mike Segar TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

At the end of the day, there is nothing ‘beautiful’ about imperialism.

President-Elect Trump Meets With Republican Governors At Mar-A-Lago

The incoming president wants to punish Panama for failing to appreciate ‘the extraordinary generosity’ of the US.

A cargo ship traverses the Agua Clara Locks of the Panama Canal

According to the US paper of record, Israel never intended to ‘erase the Gaza Strip from the face of Earth’.

Palestinian citizens inspect damage to their homes caused by Israeli airstrikes on October 13, 2023 in Gaza City,

This year, a chance encounter with a fellow pessimist helped me find some Christmas magic in the imperial capital.

US-HOLIDAY-CHRISTMAS

A new war on migrants, aimed at distracting from actual problems, is about to begin in America.

U.S. soldiers and U.S. border patrols

There is a class war raging in the US, and the healthcare system is one of its most violent fronts.

US-CRIME-HEALTH

‘The situation’ in the home city of one of Mexico’s most notorious cartels is explosive and likely to get much worse.

A truck on fire is seen on the streets of Culiacan, Sinaloa State, Mexico, on September 11, 2024. [Ivan Medina/AFP]

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