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☆ Fact Check-Dancer in social media video is not Ukraine’s President Zelenskiy
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A man dancing in a sparkly one-piece in a video circulating online is belly dancer Pablo Acosta, not Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, contrary to suggestions made by social media accounts. Users shared the clip of Acosta dancing, implying it shows the Ukrainian president because of a purported likeness between the individuals. The video appeared on Facebook after being published on TikTok on June 29, gathering more than 192,000 views on the platform here . Pablo Acosta, a belly dancer, teacher and choreographer from Argentina, posted the video on Instagram on June 1 here and has shared several similar dancing videos on the platform here . The video does not show Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, but belly dancer Pablo Acosta.

Persons: Pablo Acosta, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Acosta, Read Organizations: European Union, Facebook, Reuters Locations: Ukrainian, Britain, United States, Ukraine, TikTok, Instagram, Argentina

☆ The night the Lord of the Skies got away
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-22 | by ( Noah Hurowitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +38 min

It was May 1985, and Ramirez had only been with the Border Patrol for two and a half years. But he also knew that at the end of that road, just before the international port of entry, was a Border Patrol station. The Lord of the SkiesWithin a decade of that traffic stop, Amado would be the most significant drug trafficker in Mexico. It's the border," Ford told me recently when I reached him by phone. Ford and Amado didn't make a deal that night, but Ford said they agreed to "something tentative."

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