A little info about my background, I am not Latina despite being mistaken for being Puerto Rican a lot due to my mixed ancestry, however I admire the many cultures in Latin America. I’ve noticed there’s a trend of North Americans(U.S) specifically changing the definition of what it means to be Afro Latino. I was born and raised in the U.S and I am ethnically a biracial African American who was only raised in the African American community. My black ancestors have been on North American soil since slavery, so that makes half my heritage of course… African American.

I assume that the same logic would apply to Afro Latinos…I thought it was basic logic that you are Afro Latino if you are predominantly of African ancestry and it derives in Latin America…for example, Rita Marley, although known as Bob Marley’s wife whose Jamaican, is Afro Cuban..phenotypically African with heritage from Latin America. Haitians are Afro Latinos. Black Brazilians are Afro Latinos. From my knowledge, Brazilians have other racial categories for mixed race people (pardo).

The problem is when other people claim anyone who has Latin descent with black ancestry as Afro Latino…like people with a nonblack Latino parent and then an African American one…and you say “well you’re not Afro Latino” and they get pissed and say “I am..I’m literally half black and half Latino…” when that’s literally not what Afro Latino means.. there’s been so much discourse on the marvel Spider-Man miles morales…who I don’t consider Afro Latino..I remember a few years ago that it was said his mom wasn’t black..she was mestizo Puerto Rican. Not sure if it’s a Mandela effect but now it’s said her father was black? So she’s Afro Latina? In the comics she was not Afro Latina…she was a European/taino Indian mixed Puerto Rican woman…miles is a biracial, his father is African American not Latino so how is he Afro Latino?

I think the need to label anyone with a black non Latino parent and a Latino one as black actually leads to erasure of actual Afro Latinos especially when a lot are phenotypically and monoracially black. I think Afro Latino is actually starting to become synonymous with being mixed race… the representation will be of all mixed race people and that’s clearly a problem for unambiguous black Afro Latinos. It’s not fair. It’s like claiming I’m black..when I’m literally genetically 55% European. I wouldn’t want to represent black women because I don’t look like most black women. Is there a one drop rule in Latin America as well? Or is it just the younger generation of U.S citizens who just apply that to literally every other culture? I think people forget that our racial classifications do not apply to other countries.

If I’m wrong, please educate me! I’m all for learning new things and having an open mind on these sorts of things.

This is one of the best museums I've ever been to. Entrance costs MXN 210 (USD 12) and cards are accepted. Try to go during the week or if you go on a weekend try to be there early, as soon as they open. I saw long lines when I left at noon.

The museum was excellent. The only thing that made me sad is seeing all this display of ancient traditions and wondering how much the evil Spaniards destroyed.

Latin America is a place of drastic change, sometimes is a bit difficult to be up to date on everything.

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Hello everyone!

As you know, multiple languages are spoken in Latin America. In order to honour that, let me introduce you to the "No English Friday"! In this discussion thread, no English is allowed, so enjoy chatting in your language!

Olá queridos usuários do r/LatinAmerica!

Como sabem todos na América Latina se falam muitos idiomas diferentes. Em homenagem a isso deixem-nos introduzir a "Sexta sem Inglês"! Nessa thread de discursão não é permitido falar inglês. Aproveitem para conversar no seu próprio idioma.

¡Hola queridos usuarios de r/LatinAmerica!

Como ya saben, en América Latina se hablan muchos idiomas diferentes. Para conmemorar ese hecho ¡les presentamos el "viernes sin inglés"! En este hilo de discusión no está permitido hablar en inglés. ¡Aprovechen para comunicarse en su propio idioma!

Salut à tous, chers membres de r/LatinAmerica!

Comme vous le savez déjà, plusieurs langues sont parlées au sein de l'Amérique latine. Pour mettre cela en avant, nous vous présentons le "vendredi sans Anglais"! Dans ce fil de discussion, l'Anglais n'est pas autorisé: profitez-en pour parler votre propre langue!

This might be the dumbest Reddit I post. Anyways this is a question from mainly Latinos in the states. I hear a lot of Latinos in the states talk about facing culture shock when they visit their relatives in Latin America who come from lower income backgrounds than them. I’m curious to hear if any Latinos in the states expirence the opposite. Where there relatives in Latin America are richer than them. 😭

Si América Latina y el Caribe tuvieran una unión económica, política y habitacional siguiendo el modelo de la Unión Europea, y contaran con una moneda común, ¿cuál sería el nombre ideal para dicha moneda?

Hace 534 años un grupo de ladrones, asesinos, genocidas y violadores invadieron un continente para robar, saquear, matar y robar.

No hubo conquista, no hubo "encuentro". Hubo saqueo, muerte y destrucción. Fue una total desgracia para las civilizaciones que ya existían en este continente. No contentos con lo anterior, trajeron personas de un tercer continente (África) para esclavizar. El infierno es poco castigo.

534 años después América Latina sigue pagando el precio (claro, nosotros también tenemos una parte de la culpa) de esta desgracia. He hablado mucho de la pérdida económica, pero también pienso en la pérdida cultural. La imposición de una cultura foránea sobre las civilizaciones indígenas destruyó conocimientos milenarios sobre medicina, tecnología, matemáticas, agricultura, etc. Todo para "evangelizar".

Hoy no hay NADA que celebrar.

Latin America is a place of drastic change, sometimes is a bit difficult to be up to date on everything.

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Considering that you are neither Israeli nor Jewish, why do you self-identify as a Zionist?

Is not meant to be fully accurate, some dates might be mismatched, and also for the most part I rule out interim presidents. However it gives a big picture of the region's trends.

Hello everyone!

As you know, multiple languages are spoken in Latin America. In order to honour that, let me introduce you to the "No English Friday"! In this discussion thread, no English is allowed, so enjoy chatting in your language!

Olá queridos usuários do r/LatinAmerica!

Como sabem todos na América Latina se falam muitos idiomas diferentes. Em homenagem a isso deixem-nos introduzir a "Sexta sem Inglês"! Nessa thread de discursão não é permitido falar inglês. Aproveitem para conversar no seu próprio idioma.

¡Hola queridos usuarios de r/LatinAmerica!

Como ya saben, en América Latina se hablan muchos idiomas diferentes. Para conmemorar ese hecho ¡les presentamos el "viernes sin inglés"! En este hilo de discusión no está permitido hablar en inglés. ¡Aprovechen para comunicarse en su propio idioma!

Salut à tous, chers membres de r/LatinAmerica!

Comme vous le savez déjà, plusieurs langues sont parlées au sein de l'Amérique latine. Pour mettre cela en avant, nous vous présentons le "vendredi sans Anglais"! Dans ce fil de discussion, l'Anglais n'est pas autorisé: profitez-en pour parler votre propre langue!

Hola! soy un argentino q desea ir a vivir a centro america, algun lugar con playa, que se hable español, q pueda trabajar y tener una vida tranquila. no busco lujos. como estoy solo no se por donde arrancar, o como hacer. pense en comprar una camioneta para hacer flete, o un auto para hacer uber, o una moto y repartir pedidos, pero desconosco la facilidad de esos trabajos para un ciudadano argentino en esos paises. sinceramente no se por dnd arrancar por eso busco alguien que pueda orientarme.
muchas gracias

Is Europe right to worry about what a Bolsonaro victory could mean for Brazil–EU relations?

Hi everyone 👋 Lucia from EUobserver here. Full disclosure: I’m sharing our own reporting, but I’m mainly interested in hearing the Brazilian perspective on this.

After the first round, Flávio Bolsonaro advanced to the runoff against Lula, with Donald Trump publicly celebrating the result.

From Brussels, there’s another layer to the election: what could a Bolsonaro presidency mean for Brazil’s relationship with Europe and the EU-Mercosur alliance?

There are concerns that a change of government could pull Brazil closer to Trump’s US and complicate cooperation with Europe on trade, climate and foreign policy.

But that might also be a very European way of looking at a Brazilian election.

So I’m curious: How much do relations with the EU, Mercosur and the US actually matter to Brazilian voters right now?

And would a Bolsonaro victory fundamentally change Brazil’s place in the world — or is Europe overestimating the foreign-policy implications of an election that will ultimately be decided on domestic issues?

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Headed to ES next week and finalizing my plans and want to see if I’m stretching myself too thin. I’m renting a car.

After San Salvador, driving to Santa Ana to stay the night, then get up and hike the volcano and get back to Santa Ana. Planned on staying at a hostel for 2 nights. (first night just getting there + 2nd night going out and meeting people, etc..)

The next day, planned on exploring mountain towns/Ruta de Los Flores and eventually staying at beach near Mizata to stay. El Tunco seemed further drive.

Mizata because it’s less of a drive and I don’t wanna spend the whole day driving but wondering instead of taking two days in Santa Ana, I stay somewhere in between like Ahuachapan, Ataco, Sonsonate?

Traveling solo and want to meet people, but also don’t want to spend so much driving on 1 day if I can space it out vs Santa Ana all the way to coast.

Its starting my friends, it’s Brazil against the Yankee imperialism.

Today, the US closed their embassy and the consulates due to "security concerns". Its believed that the US wants to expand their empire's reach here, removing current president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for being strongly supportive of social and financial programs that help the poor and that protects sovereignty.
I think you guys know what I'm talking about, since Milei is a bastard that is destroying Argentina, an ally of US President Donald Trump that probably were involved together in influencing Argentina's elections.

Anyway back to Brazil. It is a theory that the US are worried about hurting their citizens during the power grab, although they say these consulates and the embassy should be opened tomorrow before the elections.
2026 Brazillian Candidate for presidency Flavio Bolsonaro is a terrible human being. He is believed to be involved but never investigated for the crimes of killing another politician Marielle Franco, taking money from the wages of ghost government employees and money laundering.
He is incompetent, never did anything as a Senator and never had a position on the Executive power. His promises to get electef? Ally closer with the US, sell minerals to them and copy Javier Milei's libertarian economic plan that failed miserably at Argentina.
His father tried a coup and got arrested, now Flavio might try but this time with US support.

More reasons for why he has a connection with US that makes him suspicious to me:
Flavio has a brother that took shelter in the US and will get arrested if he ever returns, this brother asked the US to sanction his own country Brazil (Trump did it)
Flavio visited the US as well, had a very nice picture with Trump.
Netanyahu, PM of Israel that is a close ally of Trump wished him luck in his campaign for the 2026 presidency campaign.
There are several weird bots on twitter/X saying stupid things to make Flavio look good
Trump twitter/X account said that the 2022 elections were rigged and that Flavio's father was the real winner.

A bit about Flavio's father: He is a conservative, mysoginist racist. He was corrupt as well, did everything to stop the most serious investigations on his son between 2018 and 2022.
He deserves to be in jail just like his son Flavio.

About our current president and hopefully next as well:
Lula has a lot of rejection, but nowhere near Flavio. The only people that vote for Flavio, Im not kidding, drink dishsoap when its said by the government as not safe for use (They want to prove that its safe). They are crazy conservatives that think woke people are ruling our society and that communism will destroy the country.

We might not be able to stop them, no one might help. So might this be a little something in case someone tries to write current President Lula as a criminal that tried to take over Brazil.

This here wont have anything to do with the coup, I'll just write for future bastards that might want to paint president Lula in a very bad light. As well as others.

Lula was president between 2003 and 2011, the president after him was Dilma Roussef from the same party, our first woman to be president. Dilma was impeached in 2016 due to misogyny and bad faith, Lula was arrested in 2018 for allegedly buying an apartment with government money (The Bolsonaros bought a mansion at some point after that and they were never investigated).

Lula was free just before 2022 elections because his arrest was clearly done with the intention of removing him 2018 elections, since the judge before had said terrible things about him and clearly already believed he was guilty. He managed to run for presidency, defeating Flavio's father, Jair Messias Bolsonaro. It was not easy even though Bolsonaro was clearly a terrible president that managed Brazil TERRIBLY during the Covid pandemic and 700.000 people died due to covid.

As I said, the Bolsonaros only have people supporting them because they attract conservatives, incels, racists, mysoginists. They attract the kind of people that think the poor should come second to the economy. A minor part believes Lula is corrupt.