Fran Robles

Fran Robles

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Costa Rican interested in Politics / Power / Elites / Football / Maradona / Inequality / Books Opinions are mine, not of the employer

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Another stunning defeat for a Trump-aligned right-wing leader in Europe. Serbian students voted out their authoritarian leadership after months of protests against corruption, taking their fight from the streets to the ballot box and turning people power into political power.

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What an incredible day for democracy. ❤️ Students defeat an EU-backed authoritarian regime in Serbia. 🇷🇸 Lula defeats a far-right nepo baby whose backers interfere with turnout in Brazil. 🇧🇷

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Desde que era estudiante (los 90s) y mucho más atrás, la UCR siempre ha sido acusada de lo mismo: solo en CR se insiste en asustar con una momia ideológica que ya lleva 35 años de muerta en Occidente. ¿Saben que sí asusta? Ese autoritarismo dictatorial que sí nos quieren imponer a como sea. ✊

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Today is the official release date for my new book, First Among Equals: Visions of Equality before Egalitarianism. It explores how and why “equality” became, rather suddenly, a basis on which ordinary men and women could make political demands in early modern England. Please, check it out!

No es menor, que economistas y analistas políticos en Costa Rica de un lado y del otro, traduzcan baja inflación y caída del dólar en abaratamiento de consumo sin datos. Seguro van poco al super, no digo desde ahora, sino como desde la Pandemia.

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David Harel, the president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, says the country’s current path leads towards a bleak future as a corrupt, impoverished pariah state, dominated by messianic fundamentalists maintaining a “violent, cruel occupation”.

theguardian.com‘There’s a lot of racism, a lot of hatred’: Far right gains predicted as Israel heads to the pollsWhether or not Netanyahu can hold on to power, Israelis are expected to vote in a more rightwing Knesset

Lo del Sr. Ministro de Seguridad empieza a parecer cada día más como una puesta en escena para provocar un caos en cárceles y hacer show de medios con la nueva cárcel.

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📌 Taller: Investigaciones sobre extremas derechas y populismo Viernes 6 de noviembre | ⏰ 10:00 a. m.–12:00 m. Moderado por el Dr. Koen Voorend 📌 Conversatorio: “Cómo hablar con los medios en tiempos de extrema derecha” Viernes 6 de noviembre | ⏰ 2:00–4:00 p. m. Con la Dra. Carolina Carazo Barrantes

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Edward Said's essay "Zionism From The Standpoint of its Victims" is a one of the best examples of how this issue can be discussed in a way that generates more light than heat. Characteristically for Said, it's a critique that is simultaneously compelling, principled, nuanced and empathetic.

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For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

📚 NUEVA PUBLICACIÓN | Informe sobre ingreso y salario vitales: estimaciones de ingreso y salario vitales para la región Brunca de Costa Rica, junio 2025 Autores: Koen Voorend e Iván Rodríguez Cruz

La ansiedad. La locura de la historia. Lo no verificado de las fuentes. El caso. La política. El Canciller. El extraditable. Sería una novela maravillosa del realismo mágico.