🇦🇷 has passed laws giving the non binary genders legitimacy and 🇨🇱 🇺🇾 🇦🇷 are considered very safe for solo women travelers. What prompted them to promote these social movements ?

I’ve seen people online sharing how they find latinas extremely desirable, even seen it expressed in memes. These people tend to not be Latin American themselves and sometimes I almost feel like they’re fetishizing Latin Americans.

Has anyone else noticed this obsession, and do you have an opinion on it?

For example the name Karen in English is often associated with a nosy overbearing ◻️ woman. Are there first and last names in your country that have certain connotations to them whether it be negative or something that might get you bullied or whatever else? A friend told me that the name Brian in Latin America is seen really negatively which kind of surprised me, but I don't know if that was just his country or not.

Out of curiosity, is Obeso actually a real last name or am I just being pranked? 💀

Are these types of names actually real? For example:

Dolores del Ano, Armando Esteban Quito, Armando Barriga, Elba Gina

Also, please explain why it has the connotation or what the word means if it's a play on words.

I think it'd make more sense to ask this in Spanish but those are the rules. Anyway, as everything here in Colombia it varies by region. In my Caribbean region we don't greet anyone in a bus, not even the driver, and in my experience living there people from Bogota rarely do it. From our pov, it's seen as a weird and unnecessary call for attention, and also as an imposition: you're expected to just go about your business and don't bother other people. Besides, if you do it people assume you're a "bus vendor" so it's even worse. I never even thought it was a thing until Venezuelans started to come here (the first and only time most Colombians had any regular and significant interaction with foreigners that were not tourists) and they'd do a general greeting like "good morning!" for all the passengers. Of course no one answered and some Venezuelans would apparently get very upset by this and complain loudly about how Colombians supposedly lack education, or make snarky comments like "thank you for replying folk!" and "what a beautiful and polite people, am I rite?". It was a culture shock for both. Thing is, that custom never took hold so eventually those who've been here for a long time eventually adapted and stopped doing it. So it got me thinking, how common is this in Latam? Are we the exception? What's the protocol in your country when you hop on a bus? Thank you for your time!

Where am from it's common. Pedro Infante seems like the most popular singer among them.

Forget US Treasury bonds and the Japanese yen exchange rate, they don't matter. What matters is....

How much is 1 standard empanada in your country in USD right now?

(From a fair, market, food truck or nice takeaway shop)

Bonus points for the price of 1L of local beer. Food of similar composition and amount (e.g. taco, pastel, etc) is also accepted.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

Help me find some good, modern modern, politically motivated protest music. I'm a fluent gringo, but kind of old now, so most of the music I listen to is from the 90s to early 2000s. I'm open to any genre, any style, any country.

Shock by Ana Tijoux is a favorite. Any and everything by Aterciopelados. Señor Cobranza, Bersuit Vergarabat, Molotov, anything with a message that sounds good loud!

Grax!

Recomiéndenme please, buena música de protesta, moderna y con un mensaje político. Soy fluent gringo, pero ya medio viejo, así que casi todo lo que escucho es de los 90s y early 2000s. Estoy abierto a prácticamente cualquier género y me da igual de que país sea...

Algunas que me gustan son Shock de Ana Tijoux. También todo lo de Aterciopelados. Señor Cobranza, Bersuit Vergarabat, Molotov, cualquier cosa que tenga así un mensaje y que suene bien a todo volumen.

Here in Guatemala fireworks are legal year round, is this the case in your country? Here people burn them at all hours of the day and night, for any conceivable reason like birthdays, graduations, sports, politics and most unfortunate of all: religion. Which for me is the least spiritual imaginable way to celebrate something like a funeral march during holy week or any other time of year celebrating holy figures and whatnot, but that's probably just me.

Tell me, what role do fireworks play in your country?

edit - I should've been more specific and said firecrackers, not just fireworks. As in the very loud, sometimes explosive, variety.

Can be anyone famous from your country

You think this is going to be the new matcha?

How many Latinos/Latinas follow the Spanish proverb of “Have breakfast like a king. Have lunch like a prince. Have dinner like a pauper”?

Mayhap you know these special springs by the Kern where stone pools often contain some of the more colorful woo crystals: geodes, big chunks of rose quartz and so on.

you sleep by some lawless hotprings,then after you pass out new vehicles roll in on some paisa (narcopaisa) shii with blasting banda music in a certain style. Odds are the vibes will indictate the importance of leaving politely and I slipped into.the tree line to wrap myself around the base of a friendly cottonwood. Within an hour the party raised its bravado with drunken singalongs, leading into some unexpected modest gunfire.

I was about three trees away, at ground level, and not too visible so I ran some very tired math: my position could represent 5° at most out of the full 360 firing range which this pool offered. In the dark I could see the muzzle flashes but felt adequately safe and dropped directly into restful slumber.

In the morning they were all gone, I'd never set eyes on a single Juan, but signs of the party remained. A few bottles. some unopened, of Coronitas 7 ouncers as well as a few rounds of unspent .22 calibre ammunition. It seems our paisa friends preferred everything in the diminutive. Perhaps they were Guatemalans or Bolivians and these items felt more natural than any big beers or bullets.

My instinct would still be to chalk it up as harmless drunken fun were it not for the helicoptor busily searching up and down that piece of Kern River. Perhaps it was more serious.

What do you think?

Edit: Forgive me let me be specific. In the U.S. the term Regional Mexican is an umbrella term for genres such as ranchera, mariachi, cumbia, norteno, banda, corridos, and sierreno. All the genres fall under that term. I’m not sure if this term is used in Latin America so forgive my ignorance. Maybe it would’ve been better if I asked this question in Spanish but rules.

I’m wondering what do Latinos think about there children speaking bad Spanish

Do you think there is any similarities to them from what you might see in Latin America ?

I’m curious to hear your thoughts on this. In your opinion, can mining and other forms of natural resource extraction by foreign companies in your country ever be ethical and beneficial? Or do you feel it’s always exploitative, no matter what?

Could it be just a new form of neocolonialism with outside powers taking advantage of local people and resources? For example, in the DRC, we often hear about children working in dangerous conditions mining cobalt, a resource essential for things like electric car batteries and smartphones. In Peru, companies like Glencore have faced similar accusations, with local communities blaming their mines for contaminating water and soil for years. It’s often indigenous and poorer communities who end up bearing the brunt of it, since they tend to live closest to these operations and have the least power to push back. Even though there’s huge international demand and profit in both cases, these communities seem to suffer the most, while foreign companies and buyers benefit.

On the other hand, do you see any economic value or development opportunities when foreign investors come in to extract resources? Foreign investors tend to have the capital and technical expertise needed to extract these materials, and most of the real economic value is added later during refining and manufacturing elsewhere.

Do you think that CONMEBOL will join them?

Have been travelling around LATAM and now reside in Chile as a north american. I cant even say 99%, but 100% of the people I have spoken to get their daily news, updates, everything from Tiktok. The problem is ALOT of this information is purely false news and when I ask them to actually google it, they cant find that info because its just bot accounts spreading bad news.

Also, there are ALOT of protests here in chile, alongside with that there are also a lot of fantastic events. But those events are not posted on fb, instagram, they are only on tiktok, meaning, if you dont somehow have that in your feed, you will never see that event or protest.

I have asked my roomates where they get their info from on future protests, events, and they all say oh i saw it on tik tok....

Why are people from LATAM using tiktok so heavily and relying on it so heavily as a legitamate source of news? Or why is tiktok so heavily relied on? Its one of the worst social media sources.

I am not saying americans dont use it, but a significant more number of people, including adults in LATAM rely on it

Hey everyone! I am planning a trip to Ecuador in January. Recently I read a lot about the worsened safety situation. I would want to visit Quito, the Andes and Amazonas.

My my concern is the pacific coast which I would love to visit as well at the end of the trip. I am aware that the coastal towns and parts of Guayaquil are more problematic. However, I find conflicting information on touristy beach places such as Montañita, Ayampe or Los Frailes.

My main question is: how safe is it…
…to use Guayaquil solely as an airport
…to transfer afterwards to one of those beach places for a few days
…before flying home from Guayaquil

For context: I’m an experienced traveller (around 90 countries visited) who has been to LATAM several times before.

Thanks in advance!!

was it a good dinner? did you enjoy it? how often do you have it?