this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2025
75 points (98.7% liked)

América Latina & Caribe

8072 readers
130 users here now

[GUARANÍ] Tereg̃uaheporãite / [ES] Bienvenidos / [PT] Bem vindo / [FR] Bienvenue / [NL] Welkom

Everything to do with the USA's own Imperial Backyard. From hispanics to the originary peoples of the americas to the diasporas, South America to Central America, to the Caribbean to North America (yes, we're also there).

Post memes, art, articles, questions, anything you'd like as long as it's about Latin America. Try to tag your posts with the language used, check the tags used above for reference (and don't forget to put some lime and salt to it).

Here's a handy resource to understand some of the many, many colloquialisms we like to use across the region.

"But what about that latin american kid I've met in college who said that all the left has ever done in latin america has been bad?"

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
 

On this day in 1959, U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista fled the country following the victory of Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement (M-26-7) at the Battle of Santa Clara, marking the successful conclusion of the Cuban Revolution.

The 26th of July Movement takes its name from the date of with a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953, however, the movement bearing this name was not formally organized until the attackers were released from prison in 1955. Public resistance continued sporadically until November 1956, when 80 members of the M-26-7 returned from exile.

Soon after landing on the island, a separate revolutionary group, the "Directorio Revoluncionari Estudiantil" (DRE), unsuccessfully attempted an attack on the Presidential Palace in Havana.

Throughout 1957, armed resistance from groups such as the DRE and M-26-7 would escalate. After a failed offensive by the government against rebels in the summer of 1958, the rebels launched a major counter-offensive.

On December 28th, 1958, after a fraudulent election in favor of Batista, revolutionary forces reached the city of Santa Clara. Seizing equipment from an armored train intended to transport government reinforcements, the rebels quickly captured the city, prompting Batista to panic and flee to the Dominican Republic with a personal fortune of more than $300 million.

In the following days, revolutionary forces entered Havana with no resistance, and Castro established a provisional government. The 26th of July Movement later reformed along Marxist–Leninist lines, becoming the Communist Party of Cuba in October 1965.

Batista later settled in fascist Spain, dying there in 1973 at the age of 72.

The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto "Ché" Guevara

Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War by Ernesto "Ché" Guevara

History Will Absolve Me by Fidel Castro

To the U.N. General Assembly, The Problem of Cuba and its Revolutionary Policy by Fidel Castro

r/Communism Cuba and Fidel Castro Megathread

r/Communism Another Cuba and Fidel Megathread

lecture from Michael Parenti about Cuba

Hexbear links

reminders:

  • 💚 You nerds can join specific comms to see posts about all sorts of topics
  • 💙 Hexbear’s algorithm prioritizes comments over upbears
  • 💜 Sorting by new you nerd
  • 🌈 If you ever want to make your own megathread, you can reserve a spot here nerd
  • 🐶 Join the unofficial Hexbear-adjacent Mastodon instance toots.matapacos.dog

Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):

Aid:

Theory:

(page 2) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

more balatro arrangement progress

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Hacking everyone’s brain chips in the vicinity and photoshopping in a full head of hair on myself.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Handstand pushup officially achieved palestine-strong

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

Proboscis Monkey

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Listening to the wine guys episode of guys and it’s just Riley lecturing about wine michael-laugh

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I freely admit it. I do not respect the rules of UNO.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago (2 children)
load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I'm reading Blackshirts and Reds and just started chapter 3 today.

It started with the Parenti quote!

Also thought this line was funny:

Noam Chomsky, who is an inexhaustible fount of anticommunist caricatures, offers this comment about Leninism: "Western and also Third World intellectuals were attracted to the Bolshevik counterrevolution [sic]...

Get his ass Mike

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

the only rightful targets of something resembling Operation Swords Of Iron are SUV owners in the West

qin-shi-huangdi-fireball

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

The sexism in star trek TOS while deplorable is at the same time kinda cute in an awful way, work with me here, in how it tried to be anti sexisr in the most sexist way. Like Kirk in Charlie X telling him he can't grab women's asses cause they're weaker than men and can't punch you out good for playing grab ass! The message is along the lines of 'women should be free to pursue their natural urge to find a husband and that husband can be anybody dammit!'. I think it just feels so naive and like boys who served in ww2 were genuinely trying to wrap their heads around dames and their non suppressed feelings. Despite being on screen more objectionable it has this attempt at being better but really sucking at it. I think more modern trek could stand thst kind of humility, where it kinda comes through that the writers probably aren't the ones on the cutting edge of social justice and writing as honest idiots. Good Sci fi comes from when you learn about your oder day metaphor as you write it

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Like 14 years later, still unreasonably upset by torment pronouncing Guillotine "gill-uh-teen" instead of "gee-o-teen"

load more comments (7 replies)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

CW alcohol mention, criticising my own food choices

hi Megathread! longtime no see

a trip to the local cornerstore freaked me out recently. on duty was a relative of the lad who is usually at the counter, the whole family being immigrants from Pakistan as is common in New England’s convenience shops. brief tangent, but while i’m glad the Pakistani community has found a place here in my little corner of the world, it has led to the dying out of an old New England slang term: we used to called cornerstores ‘packies’ (short for package shop) but for obvious reasons that’s now off the table.

anyways, i bring my beer and candy up to the counter like the slob that I am, and the clerk gives me a strange look— i’m a trans woman, so i’m used to people studying me to find out why there’s something so uncanny about this weird woman in front of them. but as i’m swiping my card, she asks me “not that it matters to me, but are you one of those people from (random address down the street)?” I don’t recognise the address so I answer in the negative. she tells me “okay, sure, i guess you aren’t. but i just want to make sure you know…people talk about that kind of thing. when they hear it happen in their neighborhood, i mean. people talk about what is going on there,” as she hits me with a look somewhere between suspicion and disapproval.

i grab my bag and say goodbye, eager to get away from this stranger’s judging eyes. i have absolutely no idea what she was talking about, but she clearly thought i was lying when i told her just as much. now i’m just thinking about it nonstop— my therapist would be annoyed with me for thinking so much about what a stranger thinks about me, but it’s…the mystery of it. not knowing what on earth this woman thinks i’m up to. i almost want to go back and ask her for more info, to set my mind at ease. assess the scale of the damage, yknow? its probably best for me to drop it, but i don’t like the idea of people in my community thinking i’m anything less than an upstanding citizen and a friendly neighbor.

anyways, we need a new cool slang term for cornerstores here in New England. something snappy to compete with NYC’s ‘bodegas’.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

European neoliberalism fans are cool because they’re like old old money

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

world feels so goddamn small this time of year. just sitting in cramped rooms in the dark

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

I’m writing in Trudeau next election. I support ALL failsons

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (2 children)

i feel like a houseplant that someone forgot to water 5 years ago

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Watching AGDQ and the winning file name for the Wind Waker any% run is Luigi luigi-dance

edit: holy shit Linkus built up the strength and technique to do the super swim glitch without pause buffering? Wild

edit²: this run has gotten fucking crazy since the last time I saw it! I had no idea they'd broken WW so thoroughly, super entertaining

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

i really messed up the soup i just made. the broth turned out way too acidic cause i added things i shouldn't have since i was in a big rush. just wasn't thinking it through at all doggirl-gloom

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Remember when someone got a hexbear tattoo

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

I’m so tired of everything pain

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Did some (very cringe probably but I thought was funny agitprop) yesterday luigi-dance

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Omg covid booster drop kicked me. Why didn't I have foresight and call out Monday instead of ruining my Sunday boohoo

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

.i le xajmi sidbo zo'u da poi te darlu cu kibro notci bau le bangu poi le'i se bangu be ke'a cu ji'ixamei ku ki'u le du'u no de poi prenu cu darlu fi da

.ibo zo'o la gugdecunu too-woke-1 some-controversy cu se to'e fairpaltrusi'o socialism-beer ki'u mo'a le bartu mlatu outdoor-cat .e le rokci 🪨 ku poi na derxi ja'i rau le ni cisni ku'o .e le se vlixlu AyyyyyOC-big ⚡💞

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

No creo en gualichos excepto por la bici de mi doña, la rrrrrreputisima madre todos los días un problema nuevo ÁAAAAAAAAAAHHHH monke-rage

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

My ex was all “let’s be friends, let’s be amicable” until I accidentally moved out an item of furniture she wanted to keep lol. Then came the rage. Amicability is a lie folks. It’s better to let the anger out.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Fuck it dude I'm gonna say it hasan-smash

Dogboys>catboys

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Google maps blurring out a an outdoor barbeque and bins with the privacy filter is a good bit tbh

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I keep thinkin' white guys are black by their voice for some reason. This has happened at least 4 times now.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

I don’t really care too strongly about the presidential medal of freedom, but was it always just a random list of famous people?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

didn't really think about the bit in the blurb for Province Cyrodiil about including a substantial amount of populated seafloor. 'well that should be nice for completionist weirdos that like looking into nooks and crannies'

then i had a quest take me to a tiny island a substantial distance from shore. then i had to find a shipwreck. i had to find two shipwrecks. then there was the flooded alyeid ruins on the northern edge of the completed map like half an ingame day's journey from other land. biden-horror i thought we'd all agreed morrowind's water-combat kinda sucked why are you trying to make me fight 100,000 dreughs

fr though if you're gonna make these lil archipelagos story important you need some goddamn boats available, the amount of potions or scrolls it'd take for characters that didn't role mages has to be crippling on these trips

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

In April 2009, a six-year-old Norwegian boy named Christer pressed his parents to send a letter to King Harald V of Norway to approve his name being changed to "Sonic X". They allowed Christer to write it himself but did not send it until he badgered them further, and the king responded that he could not approve the change because Christer was not eighteen years old.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I've got an idea: an eternal rent strike

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

I just saw an episode of The Simpsons in which Lisa is working as an intern at a veterinarian's office, and there is a cat named Chairman Meow. chairman-meow

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

🎶Sonic…. Gracias por hacerme sonreiiiiiir! 🎶

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

the vic 3 China experience is so fucked, im spending half my government budget on fking paper for all my administrative building

im sure 19th century China had alot of issues but im pretty fking sure lack of paper isnt one of them

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I used to eat mugcakes pretty often when I was a teen and they kinda always sucked but I just kept making and eating them

For some reason

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Lawyers should have to make you say the name out loud when registering an llc. “I’m not hearing it. It means I treat people”

load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›