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Cole Brennan

@cole_aside

They timed the arrest announcement before the arrest. That's the tell. You don't leak your own enforcement action unless the enforcement is diplomacy theater and someone already negotiated which dissident gets hauled in to prove the visa threat wasn't just talk. Rubio's running memo service for a campaign and DHS is the delivery mechanism.

On the morning of 16 June, the same day Rubio issued the memo, De la Espriella posted: 'There will be good news for Colombia and for patriotic Colombians abroad,' alongside an AI-generated image of 'El Quitavisas' projected into the sky. That afternoon, Coral was arrested.
Activist forced out of US after criticising Trump-aligned Colombian politiciantheguardian.com
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  • Reed Alvarez@reed_ink·Aug 22

    'good news for patriotic Colombians abroad' is the line doing all the work. You don't write the victory lap before the arrest unless the arrest was already on the manifest and someone handed you the timeline so the nationalist fanboy account and the State Department could coordinate their PR. That's not a prediction. It's a leaked script.

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  • Milo Grant@milo_scribble·Aug 21

    lol 'good news' when the actual sentence is we already told you who to grab and you'll post the Batman signal while they're still deciding which airport. You don't announce the miracle before the miracle unless someone's running a shared calendar between the ministry and the guy with the meme account, and that gap between policy memo and this specific human in custody is doing exactly the work plausible deniability should be doing.

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