The Latin America thread (VE, BR, AR, CU, MX...)

Earthquake! Good stuff. Lots of movement, not much damage. 8.3 at the epicenter, some 200 km from me.

Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.

8.3 and not much damage? Did it mostly hit rural areas?

Nope. It was seven something here in Santiago. We just build things to last. Tsunamis are more dangerous. But knowing exactly how much harm was done will have to wait till tomorrow.

Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.

Apparently it was felt all the way to Santa Fe in Argentina, that must've been strong.

edited 16th Sep '15 6:39:37 PM by IFwanderer

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV

Thank god chile is all right tho. No devastating tsunami or anything. Here's hoping it doesn't cause more harm.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes

Tsunami, yes, devastating, no. Not by our standards anyway.

Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.

Send all the water to bolivia so they can have their own sea.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes

I think we'd prefer the tsunami

Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.

The Hague court has taken Bolivia's request of mediation on the sea problem.

Needless to say, no chilean was amused by the idea.

Instead of focusing on relatives that divide us, we should find the absolutes that tie us.

Can confirm. I can't imagine it will actually come to pass, but the fact that a hearing is being given is cause enoigh for worry.

Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.

Bolivia has access to the ocean. Just under certain regulations. What they are demanding however is SOVEREIGN territory and that they forsook in the treaty.

The Hague court is pretty worthless at achieving anything though. All it will do is try some salomonic repartition that no one will listen to.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes

Though a sorta well timed thing, if still a double post, take for example that Nicaragua is doing the exact same thing with Colombia at the moment, and Colombia did the exact same thing of challenging The Hague's competence at a territorial dispute.

All The Hague does is try to live by the Golden Mean Fallacy, and that leaves absolutely nothing solved.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes

Come to think about it, going the Salomonic way was almost precisely what the Hague did in our dispute with Peru over the sea territory. This one's more binary, though.

Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.

No, not really. What it will do is A) Deny Bolivia the right to sovereign territory but B) Demand of Chile to grant Bolivia something more, despite the fact of the trains and the "zona franca" already there.

That way, in the newspapers of both nations, the titles will say "HAGUE SAYS WE WON AND ARE RIGHT!", the Hague will say everyone is happy and that it is a super awesome law institution and everyone will go on with their lives with nothing having changed, because nations with populist dictators always need a distraction to point at and accuse to keep providing that derishoos bread and circus.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes

You'd be dead wrong. The Philippines have been doing it since before it became cool—nope, wait, it's still not cool.

P.S. Just been lurking, since we Filipinos are kind-of-bastard-Latinos anyway. Maybe we should get bastard names á la Game of Thrones. … Oh wait—"dela Cruz" probably is our bastard name.

edited 5th Nov '15 9:46:11 PM by mirisu92

I want to go to there.

Don't xenophobes call you "water Mexicans" already?

Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.

It depend, did you people complain about EEUU or other nation being the source of all evils? because is something my conutry(venezuela) teach me you cant be latino until you live,eat and shit with the tought of other nation being the sata of your live....

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"

Water Mexicans? That's new. "Mexicans of Asia" and "Chinese Mexicans" are always classics. Lol.

But in some ways we don't even quite deserve the title because we came late to the fútbol match. I never understood why basketball became such a hit in a nation of brown Tyrion Lannisters. ^note ok that's enough GoT refs now. Catching up to S5 you see.

edited 5th Nov '15 9:20:47 PM by mirisu92

I want to go to there.

Last time I checked, Filipinos really loved the U.S.A. So nope, they can't be Latinos. It is known.

Yeah, sad thing about that—we're pretty damn consistently THE numero (artikulo) uno supporters of the Americans. Survey after survey in the last decade. Though it has something to do with the Chinese threat in the South China, ahem, West Philippine Sea. But still—we love the Americans more than they love themselves!!

I hate it. It's like they never left! Like we're "little brown Americans". (To those unfamiliar: we were a United States colony, 1898–1946—though it feels more like 1898–present.)

Speaking of which, what about Puerto Ricans? They're obviously Latino, but they like the US a lot too, don't they?

edited 5th Nov '15 9:44:57 PM by mirisu92

I want to go to there.

Puerto Rico is not a country so they don't count.

I wish they were a country though. ¡Viva la Republica de Puerto Rico! :D

Then again, given how the Philippines has been grossly mismanaged since independence, well …

What was it that guy Manuel Quezon said: "I'd rather have a country run like hell by Filipinos than like heaven by the Americans …"

Though it's no guarantee the Americans would run things better. They caused a lot of our postcolonial problems in the first place!

I want to go to there.

Link in english at least 600 Cubans were detained in Costa Rica (other 600 in Panama) unable to continue their travel up north to enter the U.S illegally.

This is a consequence of Costa Rican police stopping a smuggling ring that charged thousand of dollars to Cubans to get them to the United states

Without their contacts, the cubans flooded the Costa Rican migration offices, demanding they be extradited to Nicaragua so they can continue their trip.

Of course, by law, they cannot just let them continue their illegal trip. And also, by law, Cuba will not take them back. This kinda has the offices and the police officers at a strenuous position specially since the Cubans have taken to blocking the streets.

Link in spanish

The illegal cubans begin their trip in ecuador.This is because Ecuador's laws do not require visa. Then they mve from there to Colombia, from there to Panama, form there to Costa Rica, then Nicaragua and until they reach the destination of the United States.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes

I am guessing something of this belongs in this thread, so: today is the 30th anniversary of the Armero tragedy, the second-deadliest volcanic eruption of the 20th century. A moderately strong eruption of Colombia's Nevado del Ruiz volcano caused part of its icecap to melt, generating a mudflow that buried the town of Armero and a few other towns beneath, causing 25,000 victims despite there plenty of forewarning for both eruption and the mudflows. There was plenty of controversy about the Colombian's government handling of both the pre-disaster events and the disaster itself; the town has not been rebuilt.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

... Wait, why does Cuba refuse to take them back?

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