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The queue I set up broke so the last few things never got posted :(

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Latin America Week Day 3 - Food

Ok, I know wine is “technically” not  “food”, but I beg to differ. And most of my favorite wines come from Argentina, and they inspired me to draw the boys having some nice wine together.

You can see i went all out with the colors on this one ahshah I was too lazy for a proper background so I decided to go with something more abstract and experimental. I hope it worked!

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Day 3 of Latin America Week!! The theme is food, and I've been wanting chocoflan for a while, so I drew Mexico with some!!

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Food - third day of @aph-latam-events

Apparently Mexico and Norway are the countires that consume the most tacos per capita in the world.

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Latin America Week Day 2 - Family

I really wanted to draw these girls, since they’re often forgotten here in South America. Unfortunately there’s not much information about them, but I like to think despite their different histories they see each other as family in some way.

Suriname belongs to @pepichancc

French Guiana belongs to @aph-brazil​

(Guyana design is mine but anyone can use if you want!!)

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Day 2: Family

I showed her before, but this is the personification of Hispaniola. She was around pre-Spanish conquest and was the Spanish colony from 1492-1697. Technically she’s dead, as Jean and Marcia now represent the two countries on the island. She didn’t live for that long either, however if she were alive present day she’d be like 25. (Also her head looks weird cause I tried to do smth with what she’s wearing, didn’t work)

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Latin America Week

Day 2: Family.

This is Mex’s biological family, the man is my Aztec Empire Oc, Achcauhtli, and the woman is my Chichen Itzá Oc, Ixchel. The Aztec & Maya where the most well known indigenous groups of Mexico and have an important influence, so I thought it’d make sense for them to be biologically related to Mex.

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Hi everyone! So I just want to assure you I haven't forgotten about reblogging for the event its just I've been busy watching my brother and my Internship and a few people have voices concerns about meeting deadlines for the event. Don't worry about being a few days late we will still reblog your content as long as you tag us and use the event tag!

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Lat Am Week Day 1- History

He felt the still warm ground beneath him as he opened his eyes to dim evening shadows on the ground. It's always so damn hot here, he thought as he looked around from his position sprawled out on the ground. He laid there, trying to remember what he was doing before the rinche rode up the road. He had been walking home... from picking some things up from the general store..? Alejandro swallowed, wincing at the dry feeling in his mouth. He knew he needed water to quench his thirst and wash the taste of old blood and dirt from his mouth, but he would have to get home first.

He sat up slowly as he noticed the dull painful throb in his head. Whatever bastard rinche shot him better have done a clean job of it, he didn't want to deal with a bullet stuck in his head. He looked down at where he had been laying in the side of the road. The blood that had pooled around his head had dried into a lopsided halo. Alejandro felt it in his hair as he shook the dust off himself. He reached around for the hat he had been wearing, it would need a good scrubbing, if it was even salvageable at this point. He picked it up, thankful for the lack of gore inside it. His pack from the general store was gone, as was whatever money he had on him before.

The bodies the rinches left strewn in the chaparral and hanging from twisted mesquite trees would always be looted before being buried. Burying whatever poor son of a bitch the rinches decided to shoot that day was too risky when they were already looking for any excuse to enact "border justice". He knew too many good samaritans that showed too much compassion to the dead and wound end up dead themselves for "suspicious collusion with bandits".

He coughed, his throat aching for water as he pulled himself up. His legs wobbled in his old work boots as he began silently walking the long dusty road home.

He considered himself lucky, despite it being the third time this year he had been shot. After all, he could get back up again. Anglos always shot to kill, and these days if they wanted a greaser dead they were dead. He remembered last week; he had been working in the fields with some men, when he saw the landowner's sons driving through the fields. They kept their heads down until a gunshot rang out. Alejandro never got the mans name, but he knew the poor bastard was dead before he hit the ground.

He didn't learn until three days later, when he got his pay from the foreman and overheard the landowner Mr. Benson, talking to his friends about how his sons made a bet whether one of them could shoot a field worker between the eyes while driving.

"And ain't my boy just a great shot. He got that wetback right between the eyes!" He heard the old man beast.

Of course, he had to get back up again, Alejandro knew that much, he was a man of his people, the Tejanos, Hispanos, and Californios and those scattered in the wind from the Revolution and dire circumstance. His people suffered, but they always endured. They would outlive the rinches and their dominion over their home, and the border wars wouldn't last forever with Europe in turmoil. The Anglos would look east, and those damn rinches could all die in Europe for all he cared. And maybe the southwest would have a brief time of peace...he could only hope.

Notes- the early 1900s were a difficult time for Tejanos in south Texas, the Texas Rangers regularly lynched and harassed them and landowners exploited their labor with no consequence. The story about the sons of Mr. Benson is true, though I don't remember all the details. This side of American history is pretty underrepresented, so I wanted to write about it. Rinche is what tejanos called the Texas Rangers. Alejandro is my 2p America for those who don't know.

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Day 1- History - NY Salsa

So salsa dancing began to gain popularity in New York starting in Spanish Harlem (East Harlem in Manhattan) & the Bronx. It traces its origins back to Cuba and dances such as the mambo, cha cha cha, and son montuno. But the salsa that starts up in New York was primarily brough over by the Puerto Rican community ( Nuyorican = New York Puerto Rican ) starting as early as the 1940s.

And ever since salsa was created various countries, regions, and cities have their own salsa style such as in Cali, Colombia (this cute Colombia belongs 2 @ask-the-dominican-republic qwq I hope I got her right).

Ok ok so how did salsa end up in New York? Immigration. And how did New York get a salsa style? Well ok, so if you just moved to New York well into the 1970s you’d might go to dancehalls to meet other people. There were lots of dancehalls specifically meant for people of different ethnicities such as Irish, Italian, Polish, German, Russian, and versions other dancehalls. This was how you’d meet people of a similar background of you and how you began to be part of a community. When Puerto Ricans and other groups from the Caribbean and other places in Latin America began to arrive they’d go to these dancehalls which was how New York salsa was born (idk much about actual dancing ok, but they start on 2).

As for Rodrigo (the Bronx), he likes to claim he invented salsa. That’s debatable. He doesn’t always openly like to admit he salsa dances, but he enjoys it very much and occasionally has gotten the other boroughs involved. Although be warned, don’t partner with Frank (Staten Island) if you’re gonna dance salsa.

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June 8th - History

Hi guys! Today I share with you what I made for the Hetalia Latin America Week. I´m not sure if I will manage to complete the event, since I´m working on the answers of our askbox, and other things on my schedule. But this is what I have at the moment :)

History of Mexico (from 1325 to 1945)

Mexico has a lot to talk about. Of course there is a lot of historical events and interesting facts, but I´m going to summarize some of the most important events: 

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Day 1: History

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Left to Right:

- Olmec, Zoque, and Mixe

I decided to draw my Olmec oc. The Mother of mesoamerica, Olmec. The one that started the flourish and influence on Mexican soil.

Olmec-

a member of a prehistoric people inhabiting the coast of Veracruz and western Tabasco on the Gulf of Mexico ( c. 1200–400 BC), who established what was probably the first Meso-American civilization.

Mixe-

Are indigenous people inhabiting the eastern highlands state of Oaxaca. The Mixe name for themselves is ayuujkjä'äy meaning "people who speak the mountain language. The word "Mixe" itself is probably derived from the Nahuatl word for cloud: mīxtli.

Zoque-

Are indigenous people inhabiting several parts of Mexico: Oaxaca, mostly in Chiapas, and etc. The Zoque are related to the Mixe through language.

Information/introduction:

What I’ve realized about Olmec interpretations is they don’t tackle relationships and the influence the Olmecs have in mesoamerica.

And I would like to introduce the idea that My interpretation of Olmec is she is motherly and willing to adopt and mentor other civilizations.

-Why does Olmec adopt?

Because she has been alone and didn’t had anyone to look up to, because of this, she wanted to make sure the children she adopted have the love and affection they deserve.

To let them be under her wing and teach the knowledge she had picked up before.

-Did she any children of her own besides adoption?

No. What the olmecs done for most civilizations was to inspire and the share of knowledge. Influence.

Though. The Zoque and Mixe are theorized to be Olmec descendants.

I thought it would be cute for them to have a strong connection to Olmec.

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Day one of APH Latam Week, guysss! 

A little historical rant, hope you like it  😀

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History - first day of @aph-latam-events

During the prohibition in the 1920s, many Americans would go to Cuba to do the things they weren’t allowed to do in their own country. Tbh I’m very much in love with Cuba’s design and I don’t know why I don’t draw him more

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Day 1: History

This (very rushed) drawing depicts Marcia (DR) during her independence war against Haiti! Before I always imagined her in some uniform, all soldier-like, but I realized that that wouldn’t really work out, so I did this!

The Dominican Independence War was a war between the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Declared on February 27, 1844, the new country broke free from Haiti, after 22 years of being under its rule. The people were unhappy, as their language and culture was taken away from them, and soon an underground group was formed: La Trinitaria. The war was very sporadic, lasting from 1844-1856 but with only several major battles occurring. Despite having an ill-equipped army (fun fact: there were so little guns that people fought with swords, hence why she has one), the Dominicans won at both land and sea. However, about 4 years later, they reverted back to colony status under Spain’s rule, sparking another war in 1863.

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Latin America Week

Day 1: History.

Wanted to start this week off with a drawing of colonial Mex, she’s in her later teens here about 16-17.

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For day one of Latin America Week, which is history, I've decided to draw a 1960s Perú who is singing along to Demolición by Los Saicos!

In the 1960s rock 'n' roll was imported into Peru, and at first it was only traditional orchestras playing rock, but soon bands who where dedicated to rock 'n' roll started making their own records, singing in spanish, and upsetting conservatives!

As for the band Los Saicos, some say that they where the first punk band, they played their music from 1965 to 1966. Andrés Tapia from Respsychled Records said in a documentary I watched that Los Saicos played "songs about demolishing everything, dead people, or about fights." Which is totally punk!!!!

I think Peru has an amazing history of music, I could write a whole lot more about chicha, which is Peruvian cumbia ( a mix of surf, psychedelia, Andean music, and Afro-Carribean beats), but then this would be way too long...

Anyway, to conclude this, I'd just like to say that I think every hetalia country needs to be punk. @aph-latam-events