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   your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Jan-2026 15:59:49 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

   • mhoye

   @nev @mhoye it really is a weird thing, innit? consistently at that too. the PRico subreddit were insufferable neolib, gringo wannabes. haven’t been there since the big exodus.

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     JP (jplebreton@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Jan-2026 15:59:48 JST JP

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     • mhoye

     @blogdiva @nev @mhoye it's well understood that latin american countries export their most right wing citizens

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     JP (jplebreton@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Jan-2026 17:39:59 JST JP

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     • Marcos Dione

     @mdione thank you for the context. what i said definitely shouldn't be read as "all LatAm emigrants should be presumed right wing". i was simply referring to the phenomenon where, any time the US meddles with a LatAm country, there's always a noticeably right wing immigrant population from there speaking up to justify it as the US rescuing their failing homeland from some tyrant. it happens often enough that people make jokes like the one in the image.

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     Marcos Dione (mdione@en.osm.town)'s status on Monday, 05-Jan-2026 17:40:01 JST Marcos Dione

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     @jplebreton

     Nicaragua and Cuba had similar structures; Cuba held it for more time. I think you're thinking of these countries when you said that. All the Cubans I know outside Cuba (not many) are left leaning, but they didn't like Castro.

     There were more dictatorships in LatAm during the XXc, but mostly military.

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     Rich Felker repeated this.
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     Marcos Dione (mdione@en.osm.town)'s status on Monday, 05-Jan-2026 17:40:02 JST Marcos Dione

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     @jplebreton Left wing dictatorships in Latin America were few.

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Latin_America#/media/File:Sesel_map_of_socialist_states_(cropped).PNG

     1985: Bolivia, Chile and Surinam are military dictatorships, mostly right wing (see Pinochet); Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay just left theirs (see Plan Cóndor), possibly others. Guyana has a socialist like but power holding party at that time; I know nothing abut this.

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     Marcos Dione (mdione@en.osm.town)'s status on Monday, 05-Jan-2026 17:40:03 JST Marcos Dione

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     @jplebreton

     EI affects all non very rich people. People leaving the country includes mostly those not that rich enough to be isolated from EI but rich or gritty enough to change country. Many just take all their savings and take a leap of faith. Once I met a person from Venezuela 'stuck' in República Dominicana because she didn't have a job (selling ice cream) good enough to save to buy a ticket for Spain, where she had friends to welcome them.

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     JP (jplebreton@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Jan-2026 17:40:05 JST JP

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     • Marcos Dione

     @mdione why would it be?

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     Marcos Dione (mdione@en.osm.town)'s status on Monday, 05-Jan-2026 17:40:05 JST Marcos Dione

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     @jplebreton at least for Argentina, and the way I, as a local, see it, goes like this:

     here are two reasons for emigration: political persecution and economical instability. PP is mostly aimed to left wing people; just read about the last military government in '76-'83.

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     Marcos Dione (mdione@en.osm.town)'s status on Monday, 05-Jan-2026 17:40:06 JST Marcos Dione

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     • JP

     @jplebreton excuse me, is that sarcasm?

     @blogdiva @nev @mhoye