I understand why Kilmar Abrego Garcia has become the face of Donald Trump's monstrous policy of sending migrants to a gulag in El Salvador. But Abrego Garcia is not alone. read more
For as long as anyone can remember Andry Jos Hernndez Romero was enthralled by the annual Three Kings Day celebrations for which his Venezuelan home town is famed, joining thousands of fellow Christians on the streets of Capacho to remember how the trio of wise men visited baby Jesus bearing gold, frankincense and myrrh.
At age seven, Andry became a Mini King, as members of the town's youth drama group Los Mini Reyes were known. Later in life, he tattooed two crowns on his wrists to memorialise those carnival-like Epiphany commemorations and his Catholic roots.
Most Capacheros get crown tattoos, often adding the name of their father or mother. We've lots of people with these tattoos " it's a tradition that began in 1917," said Miguel Chacn, the president of Capacho's Three Kings Day foundation.
The Latin American tradition appears to have been lost on the US immigration officers ... .
Similarly, the Chinese emperor's court in the Forbidden City was loaded with eunuchs.
Some of these eunuchs kept their withered dangly bits in little jars tied around their necks.
Perhaps, in whatever might lie hereafter, they and those withered dangle bits might be reunited.
Does this mean there's hope for Mikey's MAGAts?
Oops, tariff on Chinese magic bawls neck charm just shot through the roof.