MERIDA

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MERIDA is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between August 25, 2023 and November 02, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “MERIDA, YUCATAN, MEXICO”; “the list was alive and well in Merida”. It most often appears alongside Brazil, facebook, Germany.

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  • Category: Places
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: August 25, 2023
  • Last seen: November 02, 2023

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

August 25, 2023 · Original source
MERIDA, YUCATAN, MEXICO Contact: Silvia Contact Info: silviafidelina[at]hotmail[dot]com Time: Thursday, October 21st, 10:00 AM Location: Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Sociales y Culturales "Efraín Calderón Lara", calle 38 453 Jesús Carranza, 97109, Mérida, Yucatán, México. Coordinates: https://plus.codes/76GGX9JV+V6C Group Link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/lesswrongmerida/ Notes: Please RSVP on LessWrong so I know how much food to get. The languages of the meeting will be Spanish (preferred) and English (rescue tool).
November 02, 2023 · Original source
A year later, Teresita Rondon confirmed that the list was alive and well in Merida. Her job was to apply it, to methodically cross-reference every municipal employee, contractor, job applicant. Teachers, street sweepers, police, doctors, secretaries, ambulance drivers, receptionists, anyone and everyone needed to be checked to determine if they were to be fired, barred, or hired . . . the list, she said, had been transferred and expanded into a new software program called Maisanta, after the commandante’s great-grandfather. It included all registered voters and allowed officials to check their addresses, voting stations, voting participation, political preferences and memberships in missions and other government schemes. It enabled searching and cross-referencing and rated people as “patriots”, “opposition”, or “abstainers”. The Maisanta list was national. Chavez’s order to bury it had been for the cameras. Rondon was one cog in a huge, clanking machine.