#Puerto Rico (The United States of America)

[candela888]

Some of the different types of cumbia in Latin America 🇨🇴🇵🇦

Cumbia is a folkloric genre and dance from Colombia & Panama. Since the 1940s, commercial or modern Colombian cumbia had expanded to the rest of Latin America, and many countries have had their own variants of cumbia.

[benjaminallhope-fulltimemind]

The situation in Puerto Rico is bittersweet in a sense, it's awful that people are suffering and have become so apathetic but I'm glad that ultimately they're starting to stir from that apathy and become proactive. I have a bit of a hot take with this one, either we grant Puerto Rico statehood or we grant it independence. We cannot maintain the status quo like this anymore, it's ridiculous and needs to change in either direction. I fully support Puerto Rico in whatever direction the people choose and wish them the best, if you're from Puerto Rico I implore you to vote and the sh you the absolute best.

[nando161mando]

The racist comment made about Puerto Rico at the MSG MAGA rally is a white supremacist talking point

[wgm-beautiful-world]

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO, USA

[cindydacatpink]

My CountryHumans OC aka Country Humanize character (Cindy Nilo Evelyn country doppelganger) Part 9

I drawing Native North American as Countryhumans

- Aiyana Tabananica (Apache Country) (Native American) 🇺🇸

- Jessica Kaiah (First Nation Canada: Blackfoot) 🇨🇦

- Yatzil Adriana (Indigenous people of Mexico) 🇲🇽

- Agapeta Ivaana (Greenland) 🇬🇱

- Cora Agueda (Taíno) (Cuba) 🇨🇺

- Maria Xaviera (Taíno) (Puerto Rico) 🇵🇷

- Jane Sikway (Kalinago/Caribs) (Dominica) 🇩🇲

- Alizay Tahiris Leahchayy (She Lucayan later reincarnation to Taíno by her same name) (Bahamas) 🇧🇸

[haveyoubeentothiscity]

Population: 87,754

[antebellumite]

the variety between some of these mottos is sending me.

[ya-world-challenge]

Book Review - Our Shadows Have Claws

Trying to catch up on some older Netgalley reviews!

This is a compilation of Latin American monster stories by YA authors - many known names as well as new writers. I’m a little late as it’s past Halloween but this is a great anthology for any season. Note that it isn’t billed as horror stories - while some of them are a bit creepy depending on your tolerance, others are tales involving folkloric creatures and legends, so exactly that: Latin American monster stories.

The stories vary in length and at 15 total, this a great volume to pick up and read a story every once in a while. From Haitian lougarou to Columbian la patasola to completely original creatures, this anthology is a rich bundle of creativity and culture.

My favorite, while not at all creepy, was probably Blood Kin by Ari Tison, a captivating tale of family, heritage, and eco-exploitation where the real monsters are the evil oil companies.

Other favorites were the opening tale, The Nightingale and the Lark by Chantel Acevedo, a Romeo and Juliet forbidden romance in Cuba with a monster-hunting twist; Dismembered by Ann Davila Cardinal, a horrifying but touching tale set in Puerto Rico; Beware the Empty Subway Car by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite, an emotional and lovely-written take on the lougarou legend; Leave No Tracks by Julia Alvarez, a feminist-focused story of finding magical heritage.

The Other Side of the Mountain by Claribel A. Ortega is unique for being the only male protagonist in the collection, otherwise the stories exclusively feature Latina teens. ¿Dónde Está el Duende? by Jenny Torres Sanchez is arguably the creepiest of the stories, next to Dismembered.

Altogether this was a very high-quality collection of spooky stories, also made interesting by being spread across a wide variety of locales in both Latin America and the United States. Each story also has its own illustration, which were a nice touch and added to the atmosphere.

★  ★  ★  ★   ★    5 stars      

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CARTER

[creed-of-cats]

- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

Men standing with pile of buffalo skulls, Michigan Carbon Works, Rougeville 1892. (Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library) // A dust storm engulfs the residents of Tyrone, Oklahoma. Taken during the Dust Bowl crisis, April 14, 1935 // Firemen stand on a bridge over the Cuyahoga River to spray water on the tug Arizona, as a fire, started in an oil slick on the river, sweeps the docks at the Great Lakes Towing Company site in Cleveland Nov, 1st // America's Suburban Experiment

[candela888]

Alcohol belts of Europe and the Americas 🍷🍺🍸

[reasonsforhope]

Where can I find Free Palestine protests and Ceasefire protests?

A super international and continually updated list of actions can be found at Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network's:

Calendar of Resistance for Palestine 2024

They list events by date, then alphabetically by country, then by city - and it's common for them to have dozens of actions listed for a single date, especially on the weekends.

The United States especially often has 40+ events on a single day, especially on the weekends.

Events are posted with links to the event info posted by whoever's hosting the vast majority of the time.

Look blow the read-more for a list of many of the countries that have been on this protest calendar, in alphabetical order, since I know so many websites/lists of actions are country-specific

*Obviously this isn't the only good source of listings for protest events - there are many others. This is by far the biggest/most international roundup I've found, though, so I started with this. If you know another good place for finding ceasefire protests/events, please feel free to add it in the notes, bc I'm planning to put a bigger roundup together once I find enough other sites

Countries that Samidoun has listed/does list protests for include (in alphabetical order):

North America:

United States

Canada

Mexico

Puerto Rico (listed separately in anti-colonial solidarity)

Hawai'i (listed separately in anti-colonial solidarity)

Europe:

Austria

Belgium

Bulgaria

Denmark

England

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

Ireland

Italy

Netherlands

Norway

Portugal

Romania

Scotland

Serbia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Wales

SWANA Region (Southwest Asia/North Africa)*:

Bahrain

Iraq

Jordan

Kuwait

Lebanon

Palestine

Tunisia

Turkiye (Turkey)

*Samidoun notes that "We know that these events are mainly international and that the Arab people are marching everywhere for Palestine – we will be honored to add more Arab events whenever we are informed!"

Asia:

Bangladesh

India

Indonesia

Japan

Malaysia

Maldives

Pakistan

South Korea

Africa:

Kenya

Mauritius

Nigeria

South Africa

Tanzania

Tunisia

*Duplicating North African countries (well, Tunisia) here from the SWANA list btw

South America:

Brazil

Colombia

Chile

Peru

Venezuela

Australia and Oceania:

Aotearoa (New Zealand)

Australia

[nando161mando]

really annoying to see the young white commentariat columbusing that the New York Times is at its very core, a yellow propaganda rag.

that "All The News That's Fit To Print"? they took this motto on, all the while failing to report on the USA govt atrocities in the islands they invaded during the Sp-Am War; incl Puerto Rico.

NYTimes are masters at lying by omission. that's exactly what they did with the WMDs lies they sold to help Bush & Cheney invade Iraq

[biglisbonnews]

World: New network on Missing Migrants in the Americas aims to drive actions to save lives Countries: Colombia, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico (The United States of America), United States of America, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), World Source: International Organization for Migration Thousands of people are dying crossing deserts, rivers and remote areas in the Americas - IOM Missing Migrants documented 1,433 deaths in 2022, the highest number since the project began in 2014. https://reliefweb.int/report/world/new-network-missing-migrants-americas-aims-drive-action-save-migrant-lives

[cindydacatpink]

Country Personification for Cindy Nilo Evelyn Doppelganger (Subject: North America) Part 1

North America:

- Claire Evangeline (United States of America 🇺🇸)

- Lola Journee (African American 🇺🇸)

- Aiyana Tabananica (Apache Country (Native American Indian))

- Laurel McKinney (Texas 🇺🇸)

- Bella Camila (Canada 🇨🇦)

- Emily Rosalie (Quebec 🇨🇦)

- Jessica Kaiah (First Nation Canada: Blackfoot 🇨🇦)

- Yatzil Adriana (Indigenous people of Mexico 🇲🇽)

- Agapeta Ivaana (Greenland 🇬🇱)

- Cora Agueda (Taíno) (Cuba 🇨🇺)

- Maria Xaviera (Taíno) (Puerto Rico 🇵🇷)

- Jane Sikway (Kalinago/Caribs) (Dominica 🇩🇲)

- Alizay Tahiris Leahchayy (She Lucayan later reincarnation to Taíno by her same name) (Bahamas 🇧🇸)

[haveyoubeentothiscity]

Population: 342,259