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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?"

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Edit: This is a name people still have. People are still running around being named Muslim murderer in Spain and Latin America. The name likely stems from Saint James the Moor-Killer

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Yeah that’s the wiki page I had meant to link to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Matamoros

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

:yea:

And there's surely even worse

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

There's also Matajudíos btw