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i say swears online posted:yeah I'm mostly confused by AMLO as well There seems to be a general warming of the relationship between the two countries. AMLO announced Biden will visit Mexico city along Trudeau in December. Maybe this is also part of the same?
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Nucleic Acids posted:Why wouldn’t it? Do they speak Latin there?
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Nucleic Acids posted:Why wouldn’t it? Because they speak French? I honestly don't think I've ever encountered the term applied to Francophones before, but apparently it is.
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There’s also French Guiana, which is latin américa too, even though is not independent
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There's no one definition of Latin America in use. The only logical definition would be the Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries in Central and South America, but sometimes it's used for all of South America and the Caribbean. Why yes, Rihanna is a Latin American  See also how Middle East extends from Morocco to Pakistan...
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I mean, French is a Latinate language... 
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As far as I know, portuguese, spanish, italian, romanian and french are all considered latin languages. edit: so I guess if Italy or Romania ever had colonies here, they would be part of latin america too Elias_Maluco fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Oct 26, 2022 |
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Nenonen posted:There's no one definition of Latin America in use. The only logical definition would be the Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries in Central and South America, but sometimes it's used for all of South America and the Caribbean. Why yes, Rihanna is a Latin American Why is it “logical” to exclude the Spanish and French speaking countries in the Caribbean
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Elias_Maluco posted:As far as I know, portuguese, spanish, italian, romanian and french are all considered latin languages. Also Latin rites, since they were majorly settled by Catholic states.
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There is no reason for this thread to define the term Latin America on the basis of two languages alone so that it excludes discussion of the Caribbean and US policy towards it generally, and Haiti specifically.
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I thought the point of the term Latin America was just to consolidate Spanish and Portuguese under one label, and also there's that French colony still on the continent that conveniently fit into the definition so that it'd be comprehensive. People are often split on the Caribbean, since it's geographically separate from the continent, but where else are you going to put Cuba when talking about its context with the rest of the world? I don't hear many people talking about the political context of the other islands at all, so whether or not they count (especially the English ones) never really comes up. And I don't really know anything about Guyana or Suriname.
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quebecois are Latin American
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i say swears online posted:quebecois are Latin American Philippines became Latin American in 1898
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i say swears online posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/dancohen3000/status/1585260919197954048 I’m surprised Biden realized this and didn’t just barrel on ahead like nothing had changed. Nucleic Acids fucked around with this message at 15:38 on Oct 27, 2022 |
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I'm sure they realize a unilateral invasion of a sovereign, neighboring country would destroy their credibility with regards to opposing Russia's invasion of Ukraine. If that war wasn't going on America would be going Grenada on Haiti right now.
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I also imagine that the US can't get a coalition going is less because people think Haiti should be sovereign and more that COVID and Ukraine have put too much pressure on the usual US allies for them to want to commit troops and political capital to invade another country.
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Marenghi posted:I'm sure they realize a unilateral invasion of a sovereign, neighboring country would destroy their credibility with regards to opposing Russia's invasion of Ukraine. With whom? Having a hard time imagining someone who still thinks US war planners are credible good faith actors and whose mind would be changed by one more invasion of Haiti. E: probably has more to do with domestic US politics and Biden being afraid of being blamed for more dead young Americans in the news, so he's only interested in new foreign adventures if he can convince other countries to do the dying VitalSigns fucked around with this message at 11:44 on Oct 28, 2022 |
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maybe we just plum ran out of bullets and can't do it
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So uh, big day for Brazil? I hear it's not going well.
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police wildin' out but i think they're going to keep the polls open later to compensate
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https://twitter.com/AndrewDFish/status/1586780145498656770 welp https://twitter.com/tomphillipsin/status/1586790307684929538 no extensions, only barricades
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So I'm assuming that Lula will be found dead in an apparent suicide in the next couple of days?
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a pipe smoking dog posted:So I'm assuming that Lula will be found dead in an apparent suicide in the next couple of days? while he may have almost died like thirty times, bolso is pretty young. it's smarter for him to just run again in a few years instead of blowing it all up
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Bolso is known for his rational, calculating demeanor yes.
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Mans posted:Bolso is known for his rational, calculating demeanor yes. i'll make like $3000 if there's a coup, just covering my bases
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https://twitter.com/vinncent/status/1586847854907244545?s=46&t=TceG-lrnnurwb0Z2vcQltg One hurdle crossed, at least.
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Thank God. I hope Bolsonaro goes away forever but life isn’t good like that
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Considering his health is at "shits through his nose" levels, it's not outside the realm of possibilities that Lula might outlive him.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:So I'm assuming that Lula will be found dead in an apparent suicide in the next couple of days? he wasn't murdered last time and the military doesn't seem to like Bolsonaro all that much because he's a moron who makes their job harder, so maybe slow your roll and appreciate something good
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https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1586864856694677506 the woke cia undermining tribune of the people jair bolsonaro
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GreyjoyBastard posted:he wasn't murdered last time and the military doesn't seem to like Bolsonaro all that much because he's a moron who makes their job harder, so maybe slow your roll and appreciate something good Yeah, the one weird trick to dealing with cops is to get the military on your side, cops won't get near anyone who'll shoot back.
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Terrifying that the vote was so close, honestly. Massive congratulations to Lula. Nice to see the left winning elections in LatAm recently. I think that the actual population supporting Lula is probably a few % higher, no? I've seen numbers thrown around that at least several million people are unable to vote due to illiteracy and they would almost certainly be for him
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Tosk posted:Terrifying that the vote was so close, honestly. Massive congratulations to Lula. Nice to see the left winning elections in LatAm recently. There's also the fact that the army was out in the streets intimidating voters in pro-Lula areas.
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Queering Wheel posted:There's also the fact that the army was out in the streets intimidating voters in pro-Lula areas. any info on that? I only saw the police roadblocks Tosk posted:I think that the actual population supporting Lula is probably a few % higher, no? I've seen numbers thrown around that at least several million people are unable to vote due to illiteracy and they would almost certainly be for him
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i say swears online posted:many countries have ballots that don't require literacy, unlike the US, with candidate photos and party logos displayed Yeah but they can't read the buttons or the instructions required to correctly vote and not have your vote annulled. This is generally mitigated through assisted voting, which just about every Latin American constitution has. The only specific caveat about Brazil that I can think of is that voting isn't compulsory for the illiterate, whereas it is for everyone over 18 and under 70. But I believe you actually can vote if you're illiterate, legally speaking.
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Tosk posted:Terrifying that the vote was so close, honestly. Massive congratulations to Lula. Nice to see the left winning elections in LatAm recently. I was also bummed that even after loving EGREGIOUS corruption and evil bungling (guy literally slams 100 years of secrecy on everything surrounding his family's dealing, and his family, who have only ever been politicians, owns more than 100 properties), it was all down to 1.3% difference. But having the machinery of government in hand makes a HUGE difference in Brazil. Bozo went all out, even doing things he spent the last 3 years saying were impossible or not his job (slashing gas prices), sending more aid checks, forcing retirees to the polls to register in the system so they can keep receiving their benefits. His allied business ghouls were stopping work shifts to tell their workers that they would be fired in Lula won, and posting videos about it. All of those things are electoral crimes, but the Electoral Courts have been utterly hollowed out, and not by accident. I'm nervous about his continued silence, though. This fucker has ALWAYS doubled down, and never lost or paid a price, in 30 years. He's either planning to skip the country, or trying to coordinate with trucker barons and such to cause chaos and block roads (which is already starting) and create a crisis he can somehoe juggle in his favor.
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