#latino america

[wearelatinamericanrockers]

if you're not latine/from latam just reblog silently :]

here's a second poll if you cant find your nationality here

[backtothe80scolors]

Just doodling daddy Steven 🫠

[nuestro-norte-es-el-sur]

[moonsfireflies1993]

Why Panama is on Strike

From afar the Panama protests look like maybe a bunch of hypersensitive eco-fools or maybe like those people who think throwing paint on museums is making any difference instead of going directly to the companies. 

The reality is that Panama is protesting way more than just the “contract”. But, let's start with the contract. 

First, the company can own Panama by owning land property of the Panama state" inside or outside the 17,000 hectares from what was licensed.” This means that the ANATI (the National Authority of Land Administration) HAS to give it to the mining company with no setbacks.

The mine puts danger around 8 countries of Centroamerica with already reported 200 environmental damages

If the company wants to own private lands that are located inside or outside of hectares of the land that was licensed. The company can own the land and pay nothing in exchange, with no questions.

The contract was done with random permits without the proper process of acquisition. 

The contract promises to give Panama a very small quantity of payment to Panama when Panama already spends millions of dollars on the state. This means the company will give Panama less money than what Panama already invests in the country. So we are selling parts of Panama for less than what we already invested. 

Panama's government is allowing a foreign company to NOT pay 70% of their taxes during the first 10 years of copper extraction. 

The community of Donoso (where the mine is located) says they see tons of copper trucks going out every week and at the same time they complain they haven't seen improvements in their community. Ejm: railroads, electricity.

The company threatens with an international lawsuit of millions of dollars if Panama doesn't sign the contract. But if the company fails to comply with the contract, claims it will only pay 70 million dollars (Which is less than what they make extracting copper from the mine).

The contract has a clause that makes an actual law. The contract will reign according to the laws of Panama, except if a law looks inconsistent. In other words, if Panama makes a law that prohibits mining or a law that obliges them to pay taxes, because of their contract it will not apply at all because of that clause. 

The joke was that the president signed the contract in less than 3 hours.

Now, going to the other complaints of the population. Panama already has tons of issues and complaints that are not resolved. These issues have put the whole country on the verge of exploitation.

In September, there were massive protests in several parts of the country because of the sexual assault of the minor Madeleine at the hands of the National Juvenile Assembly. To keep it short. Every year the country makes a national juvenile assembly and this kid was from outside the city representing her district. She ate and drank with each political party and told a classmate to check on her because her water tasted like medicine. The kid hours later was attended by an ambulance with no notification of this to her mom. After this, the kid was behaving erratic and paranoid with a location on her phone that wasn't at the hotel in Panama where all the kids were. The other claims of the event were that all the minors had those dinners with the political parties representatives and on those tables were "Gringos" (foreign European or North American people). Why those kids were sharing tables with gringos in the first place?

When the kid arrived from the trip, she was in a catatonic state and with constant PTSD attacks. There's still no justice or any trace of who were the ones who committed those crimes, and even no accountability by the MEDUCA (The Ministry of Education of Panama).

It is not the first time since such an event happened at the hands of the state. In 2021, we had another state scandal when it was reported that one of the deputies ( Arquesio Arias) of the national assembly raped several women in the indigenous Kuna Yala region. Of course, you can imagine he was dismissed from the charges and when that announcement was published, one of the victims tried to kill herself and got into the ER.

Then there are the deputies who name some of their relatives to the state payroll and don't even work in the state but take tons and tons of money monthly. Meanwhile, the oncologico hospital keeps getting shortages of injections and gloves.

Panama is considered an international hub, one of the richest countries of Latin America and still we struggle with poverty and access to vital things for the population, why? Because people of the state and international companies steal the money, they sometimes build roads and bridges and the costs are higher to the price from the real costs of those constructions, for example, the Odebretch scandal. They charge lots of money, so they can bribe some of the money to both parties (the construction company and the one who is soliciting the construction.

But then again bribing is part of the panamenian culture as we say "juega vivo", bribing the police, the hospital, and the system is all about money and taking advantage of situations as they come even if it is illegal.

Is funny we are all fighting for water, Well my friends here where I am with the famous "Panama Canal" that provides us with most of our income as a nation while having lots of rivers and geographically we are surrounded by both the Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean, having all of that I get shortages and cuts of water for more than 6 times a month.

This week, the IDAAN (the company that provides water to the whole nation), has been making shortages all week. My family and I have been saving water tanks each day because of the shortages. I keep joking internally that I have a toxic relationship with the IDAAN since we kind of got used to this and the irony is that while the entire country struggles with the shortages they still sign a contract that will even affect the water flow to the Panama Canal in the long term.

The protests are not just because of the damage to nature is that the government sold us to a foreign Canadian company that has shareholders from the US and China to exploit us leaving us with nothing.

My biggest worry right now is that our current president is sick, the whole country knows he has cancer and during his last speeches, he has been looking like a corpse with now rumours of him leaving the country to intern himself to a hospital in Houston Texas. If he dies then probably the vice president has to take charge, but he has been missing since the protests and people HATE him. So yeah, Panama is on the brink of chaos and if that happens .. well

[artwallsworld]

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[brazilspill]

There are 3 types of gringos:

The ones who consider Brazilians Latino but only because they think we speak Spanish

The ones who know we speak Portuguese but think we aren't Latino because we don't speak Spanish

The ones who know Brazilians are Latinos who speak Portuguese... because their Brazilian friends have rambled and ranted about it until the information sunk in

[lynchianightmare]

This video was filmed in my country.

Roger recorded a song with Pedro Aznar y Gustavo Cerati (2 artists from my country) for a foundation to improve health and education for children in Latin America (as the video description says) . (The money they the song made went to the foundation)

This really moved me. I’m really grateful Roger took the time to help people.

(Here the poverty rate is 45%, which is absolutely crazy) So, I’m really glad he tried helping <3

[cutepawz98]

I still living in the 2010's

That's crazy

[nayadefenix]

I didn't want to believe at first that Torriyama had died... May that legend rest in peace.

Well bro, I'm just replying now, I tried to make it easier by trying to post normal things but I couldn't get it right, it took me an hour to sleep. I cried because this guy created it was a masterpiece, I was sad about his death, anyone who was born into a home full of fights had the option of television and this guy's drawing was on TV. He helped many in their difficult time, inspired several mangakas and artists, without Dragon Ball what would the world of shounen be? He was talented, dedicated, I prayed for his family early in the morning, I was truly grateful for him.

portuguese:

po mano,so to respondendo a agora,tentei aliviar tentar postar as coisas normais mas nao consegui direito, demorei meia hora para dormir . chorei por que esse cara criou foi uma obra prima,fiquei triste com a morte dele,quem nasceu em um lar cheio de brigas a saida era a televisão e desenho desse cara passava na tv. ele ajudou muitos em seu momento dificil,inspirou varios mangakas e artististas,sem dragon ball o que seria o mundo do shounen? ele era talentoso dedicado eu orei pela familia dele de madrugada,era gratidão mesmo que tenho por ele.

[wtfastaroth]

Guys, I need to practice my Spanish more to really learn the language and use it in everyday life, so maybe I'll make some posts in Spanish

Also feel free to interact with me in Spanish, but keep in mind that I am a TOTAL beginner

[rga531]

There's a channel in Youtube that remixes Touhou songs with lots of different Latin American styles. Most are really amazing!

[backtothe80scolors]

Space Daddy <3

[nuestro-norte-es-el-sur]

[moonsfireflies1993]

The American who killed the panamenian protesters and other reasons why I dislike American culture

This Tuesday, November 7 some teacher unions and indigenous collectives were protesting closing of the railroads because of the mining contract and the corruption, a man called Kenneth Darlington killed 2 of the protesters who were unarmed. This man had trouble with the law years prior. In 2005, he was detained for the illegal possession of arms. Of course, because anything can be bought in Panama he was pardoned from all charges.

The man is a zonian American. And what is a zonian? Well, zonians were the Americans who grew up inside the canal zone. Which meant they lived inside the American settlement that managed the Panama Canal. Most of the Americans who lived there were from the south of the US, and only spoke english. Most of them grew up isolated from Panamanian society and disconnected from all the problems Panama was dealing with their precedence on Panamanian land.

They even implemented some of their ways, like segregation of blacks and whites in some of their canal zone areas. They loved how they lived in Panama because they had so many benefits that the common Americans living in the US didn't had. Like, free taxes, good housing, good salary, and long vacations.

Some of those Zonians got back to the US and most of them mourned the life they had in Panama. So, as you can imagine, now being American retirees some came back to live in Panama. Some of them never left and stayed in the Albrook area, trying to adapt to the changes while also holding some of those old American ideals from the South.

As you know from my older posts, Panama is currently dealing with a corruption crisis that has to do more than just random people fighting for nature preservation. This crisis that started in October made some far-leftist unions manifest, some taking advantage of the situation and others with other concerns regarding their community. Some people support their methods of protests of closing railroads and some people criticize it because of how it's leaving some provinces without access to resources.

Regardless of the anger of being trapped in traffic because of the protests no one absolutely no one has the right to kill another individual.

Now, going to the title of this post it may look like someone who hates Americans in general which is not entirely like that. But, on my end, from what I have seen on how Americans live, with college/university debt, a health system with absurd prices and their individualistic culture. As someone who has interacted with all kinds of Americans visiting Panama, I always felt some disdain for how they think their ways of living apply the same in a different country, in this case, them visiting Panama. Don't get me wrong, I have met nice Americans as well, but also someone's who come across as entitled.

It was a surprise of mine to see today, Wednesday 8 a post from the New York Post talking about the event and to my surprise, the amount of American accounts commenting distasteful things without even asking a Panamanian about the issue or doing some research. It just confirms a bit more of my judgment of how they live in a bubble, thinking their ways apply to the rest of the world. Then again I know some Americans don't think in such ways, but sadly I have seen some of this kind of behaviour in both extremes of the left and the right. Trying to relate to an issue by applying some of their American mindset to it. And what I mean by that is just their society rules, what is ok and not ok in their culture and even their societal issues.

I don't think you need to be from another country to understand why killing is bad, especially if a group is unarmed and not actively attacking you. And celebrating it just tells me the lack of character and ethics of that individual.

[usaigi]

So I saw a post where you said Jake has a right to the Mayan symbols on his coat collar, but I've also seen people say Oscar Isaac is a white latino and also that he's "obviously a white man", and yet Oscar himself has also claimed being a poc/not white a couple of times, so I'm confused???

Assuming Jake/MK sys is Guatemalan like Oscar Isaac, personally I’d argue that he has the right to wear Mayan clothing. Mayan history is part of Guatemalan history, so even if Jake isn’t racially Mayan and as long as he’s respecting the culture, it’s still his culture. 

Disclaimers: This is my opinion as a Mexican person of Yaqui/Seri/Spanish ancestry, some other natives/latines may disagree.  

As far as I know, Oscar Isaac has never explicitly said what his race is. But considering that his mother is Guatemalan and 82 percent of the population is indigenous or has indigenous ancestry, and looking at his general appearance, it’s safe to assume that he’s Ladino/Mestizo(mix indigenious/European ancestry) and would therefore be POC. However, if Oscar claims to be POC/not white, just take his word. We don’t know his family ancestry, we don’t have his 23andme, and it’s not our place to speculate. 

Because of colonization, most Latines are multiracial. A majority of the population is of mixed European and Indigenous ancestry. Slavery and immigration also play a factor a significant percentage are mixed with other European, African, MENA, and Asian ancestry. It depends on the region and its specific history in terms of slavery/immigration/colonization. For example, in the Caribbean they brought more African slaves than in Mexico so now, Cuba, PR, DR, and Haitian have a higher population of people with African ancestry than Mexico. 

Latine is an ethnicity and not a race. There are white Latines like Anya Taylor-Joy, Cameron Diaz, Bella Thorne. etc. Oscar is almost certainly not one of them. The people who call Oscar Isaac white/white-passing are the same people who call Alexa Demi, Aubrey Plaza, Selena, etc. white/white-passing. Yes, all these people have European ancestry(based on appearance) but not exclusively. Calling them white erases their indigenous/African/other heritage. Not to be controversial but I honestly only think that people call celebrities like Oscar Isaac, Alexa Demi, etc. white is because they’re conventionally attractive and meet the European standard of beauty. That and the appropriation of black/indigenous physical features and fashion/culture by white celebrities like Kylie Jenner and Ariana Grande. Latines with their normal natural features don’t look like Jenner or Grande, they look like us because they paid to look like us.