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[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?"

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[–] davel@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

:yea:

And there's surely even worse

[–] theposterformerlyknownasgood@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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

[–] davel@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] RION@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago
[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Comerccaca

And to think, I was raised to think Lake Titicaca was the funniest thing

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

não-me-toque*

porto de galinhas*

pau grande*

lagoa da confusão*

pau in this context probably means wood, not dick (doesnt make it any less funny tho)

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Okinawa Uno che-smile

[–] radiofreeval@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Help I got lost in lago de confsuion and ended up in distraccion and I don't remember what I was doing

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Special mention to Agua Hedionda (Mex.) and Agua Hedionda (Arg.)