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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).

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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I mean you're running a country so you have two choices, conciliatory liberalism so that the opposition at least sorta works with you and doesn't actively coup you or you gulag the opposition and remove them from power. If you don't have the popular support and strength of arms to do the latter, well, you're stuck with conciliation and compromise