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EUR has been cheap for years, but it has never been 1 EUR = 3 USD at least in the last 10 years: https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=EUR&to=USD&view=10Y

also:

The EUR/USD reached an all time high of 1.6038 in July 2008 and a record low of 0.8231 in October 2000.

https://www.fxstreet.com/rates-charts/eurusd

I tried with Italian and I feel I made good progress with reading and listening.

I started with Duolingo to see if I'd like the language.

I also read somewhere that once you know the 1000 most used words in a language you can mostly understand whatever is written and spoken. So I focused on that using this app. They have one for pretty much every language.

I mixed that with reading basic texts and eventually moved onto watching videos in Italian. I got to a point where I could read the news and watch vlogs without struggling too much. It took around 4 months and I got tired. But I'm pretty sure I could have kept improving.

this rhythm came from the northeast, is a mixture of funk, brega, hip-hop and r&b becomes totally different from the original funk of rio de janeiro and são paulo, thus creating a new musical genre.

Shame on you because? get out of this bubble brother, we are no longer in 2010 where young people had the syndrome of vira lata and only appreciated American music, which even has more dirty words, there is Brazilian music for all kinds, for people to have fun with friends and there are also more melodic and lyric music, it is worth you choose not to devalue music that originates from the periphery, made by blacks and slum dwellers.

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Vergonha alheia porque? saia dessa bolha irmão, não estamos mais em 2010 onde os jovens tinha síndrome de vira lata e só apreciava musica americana, que inclusive tem mais palavrão ainda, existe musica brasileira para todos os tipos, para as pessoas se divertirem com amigos e também existem musicas mais melódicas e liricas, vale a você escolher não precisa desvalorizar musica que tem origem da periferia, feito por pretos e favelados.

But you speak English, why would you limit yourself to Spanish if 90% of the content and job opportunities are in English? In any case you dont need to pay: Start with the curriculum https://www.freecodecamp.org/ . It's free, if you have any doubts you can PM me

Look into Vijay Prashad's "Washington Bullets"!

https://www.amazon.com.br/Washington-Bullets-History-Coups-Assassinations/dp/1583679073

There's a portuguese version with a preface written by Evo Morales.

https://www.expressaopopular.com.br/loja/produto/balas-de-washington-uma-historia-da-cia-dos-golpes-e-assassinatos/

Prashad is not latin american, but it covers a lot of the things that the CIA has done since the end of World War II.

Tropical fruits like mangoes, bananas, and pineapples, as well as bilao (rice winnowing basket) and walis tambo (whisk broom).

What do you think about this Podcast then?

https://castbox.fm/vb/294119398

Last I checked, Canadians don't vote in US elections and this Brazilian consistently makes reference to a percentage of "Norteamericanos" voting one way or the other in the US election...

Is this your field? I’m going off this course I listened to: https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/lost-worlds-of-south-america.html

The prof absolutely disputes the method of migration.

I may be misremembering which site is 30,000 years old, however.

> Custom Protocol/Infraestructure - 10/10 or 0/10 if you mess up, but only a custom protocol can truly be untraceable, signal has servers, they can roughly track your ip address if they wanted, you could mitigate some things, but a custom protocol would make it basically impossible, this is what a terrorist would use, unnecessary even for someone like snowden.

Very cool break down. I want to add that Signal did absolutely everything in their power to fix the problem of governments knowing when Signal servers were in use via "domain fronting":

https://signal.org/blog/looking-back-on-the-front/

https://librivox.org/vagabonding-down-the-andes-by-harry-a-franck/

There’s the 1917 version (in the form of an audiobook). In the foreword, the author accuses other travel writers of massive sugarcoating and assigns himself the task of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

São Paulo, Brasil

Internet Plan: 120 Mbps

Internet speed: 126 Mbps down, 10 Mbps up

ISP: NET (Subsidiary of Claro/América Móvil)

Price (internet only): R$ 99 (US$ 26) monthly for the first 12 months then R$ 145 (US$ 38).

I think it would be interesting to know prices as well, to see how it varies inside LatAm and how it compares to the world.

People often go "Where is Colombia" or "What is Colombia?" but no one ever asks "Why is Colombia?".

To them I would suggest <em>The Making of Modern Colombia: A Nation in Spite of Itself</em>

Só is a North American Canadian or from the US? North American is too general and is quite often used erroneously by many folks in Central and South America.

See this podcast for an example of a Brazilian using North American erroneously:

https://castbox.fm/vb/294119398

When living in Chile I had this argument with almost my entire highschool class. It really came down to the fact that they do not consider north and south America to be separate continents, but just one "America" and they would get pissed when I would say things like "el gobierno Americano" or "soy Americano." They would then insist on my calling myself Norteamericano instead and would refer to the US government as "el gobierno Norteamericano - as if Canada and the US are all one country... I could never convince them that they were just as wrong for thinking that the US is simply "North America" as I was for calling myself "American."

Its actually quite common across South America for folks to refer to the United States as North America and just group Canada in with us.

For example, the Brazilian Podcast Cafe Brasil recently put out an episode where it talks about the "North American Election" as if both Canadians and US citizens had just voted for the US president.

Here is a link to that episode for reference...

https://castbox.fm/vb/294119398

See how he uses "North American" to really mean, United States-ian?

If estadounidense existed in English it would make it much easier to not use "American."

Colombian here. Yes. We have both legal and illegal gold mining. And also, we have a heated discussion with Spain and american treasure hunters about the San José galleon

In Brazil theres winter tourism, cities that are exceptionally cold and ocasionally have snowfalls become tourist attractions, as a Paulista i hate the cold because our houses aren't built for the winter (here it's basically 2 months of cold, 2 months of mild weather and the rest of the year is hell).

>so I envy you guys who don't need to spend a lot on cloth shopping

Nah bro, fashion adapts to the climate, u dont go out dressing cheap unless its a very casual ocasion (like going to the mall or ur bestfriends house), we have the tropical drip u know, and it isnt the gringo going to panama drip.

That would depend on what the definition of "right" and "left" are.

I dont think any party that tries enacting redistributive social policies can be considered even remotely to the right. Right wing's motto is "the best social program is a job". Draw in investment, relax labor laws if needed, get to full employment and people will take care of themselves without the need for public money.

Right wing is stuff like defending property rights. Did PT and PSDB not allow land invasions day in and day out during their governments? IIRC it was about 40 a month all the way until january 2019 when it went down to 2.

Are you still living in Cuba? If so, could you do an internet speedtest and post it in here?

I've never seen any cubans playing online games or anywhere else on the internet but on this sub. Well, I've seen a few, but they were living in the US or were sons of cuban immigrants.

It's not that I wholly disagree with you, mind you, but

(1) there's a lot of debate

(2) we're so little on our pre-Columbian past that I admit knee-jerk-reacted on you 😅

(My school had <u>Ancient Panama</u> and I highly recommend you read it even though it's a bit dated now!)

Same for Panama. Our history is Balboa, Panama Viejo, Portobelo, King’s Highway in the 1500s and then a giant 400 year wall.

Then from 1903 onward (Panamanian independence), the historical record is huge since USA kept meticulous track of everything. So there are 700 page historical books on the Panama Canal, we know everything about how USA stopped the Colombian Navy (including internal deliberations in Washington).

It’s like history began in 1903. Even Panama under Gran Colombia is a huge mystery other than the national narrative of “Bogota mistreated/ignored us, so we left.”

As stupid as it is tamale is actually the correct spelling in English. The first time I saw the word tamal on a menu I didn't even know what it was -- despite loving tamales. I just didn't know the spelling was different.

Romania is a beautiful country with a beautiful language.

I've read quite a bit about Romania. Years ago I got the Colloquial Romanian textbook but never really put the effort to learn Romanian.

I follow Transylvania Girl on YouTube, she's a Romanian girl currently living in Italy, and she's fluent in Portuguese. Here's her channel in case anyone is interested.

It would, unironcially. Argentina's problem is chronic inflation, inflation that is created by the Central Bank of Argentina in order to fund its massive bloated State.

https://www.amazon.com.br/Vampire-Economy-Business-Fascism-English-ebook/dp/B0052YQ1CK#:~:text=The%20Vampire%20Economy%20is%20a%20study%20of%20the,their%20impact%20on%20human%20rights%20and%20economic%20development.

This is basically where Argentina's economy is right now.

https://www.amazon.es/Mr-Chairman-Fabricaci%C3%B3n-Resistente-Medley-Gabriel/dp/B07JMW1574/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?adgrpid=115591883255&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwlemWBhDUARIsAFp1rLWNBoYdvB0hxX07m_I1aTi7krSnJJHSgc_0L1ppuXpdJlNGod9zD8QaAoNAEALw_wcB&amp;hvadid=601341...

The subway is safe and there is no reason not to use it if your will be staying in Copacabana. It can get pretty crowded during rush hour but otherwise it's the best way to move around the city.

Lots of people saying uber is better than taxis. I disagree. Uber drivers frequently don't know the city as well as taxi drivers and will blindly follow the GPS. To avoid bad taxi drivers install the city's taxi app, Taxi Rio.

Also: only drink bottled water. Trust me on this one.

Meu deus, eu sinceramente não sei mais como falar de forma que você entenda. Permitir que o "tu" com terceira pessoa seja aceito, não proíbe ninguém de falar "tu" na segunda pessoa, e faz com que a gramática se adeque à forma que a maioria fala. E não é todo mundo do sul que fala "tu" conjugado na segunda pessoa, essa é uma informação que você tirou do nada, por acaso já foi pro sul? E tem gente sim que defende em existir uma gramática diferente pro PT-BR, assim como tem palavras que existem só aqui e palavras que são escritas de maneira diferente.

Mas na boa, cansei de falar com você, e dica pra vida: quando for argumentar com alguém, se prenda ao que a pessoa fala e não fica projetando no que a pessoa tá dizendo ok? Fica na paz, fui.

As you mentioned, Brazil is huge so we're not homogeneous culturally or as people. We could be divided in small countries and you wouldn't notice that we were part of the same group. Someone from Rio Grande do Sul ´has more to do with someone from Bueno Aires or Montevideo than with someone from Alagoas or Bahia, as someone from Amazonas or Roraima might have more things in common with someone from Venezuela or Colombia.

I know it's boring but if you really want to understand Brazil, then I guess those two books might be a good start:
The Brazilian People: The Formation and Meaning of Brazil

Roots of Brazil

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Not sure how you are searching but found this book after a 2min search, it's exactly what you are asking, you might need to search in Spanish since naturally sources for this subject are most likely written in Spanish

https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Pedro-Plasencia-Fern%C3%A1ndez/dp/8478133844

There’s this book about Peruvian culinary history you might be interested in.

“(….)La investigación se inicia explicando los orígenes de las principales plantas alimenticias y frutos de la época precolombina, enumerando sus beneficios y formas de consumo para luego estudiar la evolución de la comida peruana, producto del mestizaje con la española en el periodo del virreinato y el protagonismo que tuvo la cocina francesa en el siglo XIX, evidenciado por los banquetes ofrecidos en homenaje a héroes como Miguel Grau o Andrés Avelino Cáceres. Además, reconoce los aportes a nuestra gastronomía gracias a la llegada de inmigrantes italianos, chinos y japoneses(…)”

https://www.amazon.es/Cocina-Peruana-Historia-cultura-sabores-ebook/dp/B07MQ75JPY

Look at Steve Bannon commenting on Russia, he shows quite a simpathy. Also, the brazilian far right theorist, Olavo de Carvalho, the literal ideological reference of bolsonaro has a book debating with russian far right conservative Akexandr Dugin.

Saint-Domingue, man. If you knew the history of Saint-Domingue you wouldn’t be saying those things.

Now, people in Haiti don’t live a heavenly life in modern times, but things used to be worse, way worse under French rule.

You can start by listening to this awesome podcast on world Revolutions that had a whole season on Saint-Domingue. It’s fascinating if you’re interested in world history.

The names have document history, such as where the africans immigrated from. http://anom.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/caomec2/recherche.php?territoire=SAINT-DOMINGUE

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Haiti_Online_Genealogy_Records

All countries have this. They can detail even from what part of africa specifically. The french were very good at documenting this, the spanish as well.

I think you’re confusing recombination DNA and the process of how each child gets different pieces of DNA from each parent. But every child still gets 50%.

https://www.ancestry.com/corporate/blog/understanding-patterns-of-inheirtance-where-did-my-dna-come-from-and-why-it-matters

I think you’re also confusing a certain medical condition with the genetic inheritance norm. When an embryo gets one extra copy of chromosome (not the whole thing) from one parent is called uniparental disomy. This leads to genetic illness and can cause miscarriages. It’s not common at all.

https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/understanding/inheritance/updimprinting/

Also, are you defending the one drop rule? I thought you were against but you’re advocating for biracial identifying as black and saying how even minor African ancestry can make someone look black.

Unless, I got it wrong and you’re trying to prove a different point.

Much of the violence that landowners do is "defense" of property against trespassers, unless he is a wretched grifter who has invaded indigenous property. A more efficient judicial system to protect private property would solve this problem. The crimes that drug dealers do are precisely to guarantee the transportation and production of their drugs in the face of government actions. If you remove these actions, the motive for committing these crimes ends and they will have to end the use of firearms for cost reduction reasons.

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Recently, violent incidents by Peruvians have been happening in Japan, scaring the Japanese. Also, welfare fraud by Brazilians has not been eradicated and they do not pay taxes to the locals. They are lazy. They will start making excuses such as "it's because of the invasion by Spain and Portugal". No wonder they can't create a safe and convenient society back home for Latin and South American people who don't like hard work and labor, like Japan.

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I have seen them on Amazon, it seems as a reasonable price for 8 packages.

I want to ask my Venezuelan friend to bring me some flips on his way back from Holidays. Hopefully they still available there!

>It's similar to haunted house tours where murders happened (specially carried out by serial killers). Some people are just really into that sort of history for some reason.

Yeah, there's nothing special about Escobar tours. There's an entire travel industry catered to "dark tourism": https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Dark-Destinations-Explore-tourism/dp/191394719X

When I went to visit Chichen Itza, my tour guide spent a disproportionate amount of time walking through sacrifice in the Sacred Cenote and describing every bloody slice. The tourists were definitely far more interested in that then learning about where the limestone was sourced to build El Castillo.

I would drink it from my own shoe if really desperate.
Just use whatever is comfortable. (Most people use small enamel cups where i live)
There are even some with two handles made specifically for mate drinking (as you can pass it around without touching the hot body.
As for straws i usually recommend these as they are really easy to clean.

My top 2 would be:

1. Sucre - beautiful architecture and history, great mountain biking and trails nearby. tranquil city
2. Cochabamba - bigger so more options for things to do. amazing weather year round. https://weatherspark.com/y/27676/Average-Weather-in-Cochabamba-Bolivia-Year-Round

A British TV show where contestants have to travel huge distances without flying on a limited budget. Apart from being hilarious, season 2 does a pretty good job of demonstrating the vastness of Latin America.

Venezuela has one of the worst Internet services of the region. Our infrastructure has not been updated since 2007-09. In internet speed we are in the worst 3, globally (source) .

I learned about this jewel today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd02elKYEAo

Does that count?

From this article, hah, https://slashdot.org/story/21/11/25/165218/walmart-pulls-childrens-toy-that-swears-and-sings-in-polish-about-doing-cocaine

I like Poland, it gave us Lem and Madame Curie(The irony of the name notwithstanding)

I like to learn about everything but right now I want to read this 2 volume history about Poland (poor guys, they have had it HARD through history)

God's playground

Well, it happened overtime, I guess I can see why it would be confusing for someone unfamiliar with our history. If it interests you, there's a series on amazon prime called Brazilian Empire that talks about it.

Yes. The dark sky is not only the fires, but the fires certainly have some fault in this. Look at this map to get a better view of the smoke cloud.

Bt it kepts qanon sense of the story

&gt;being a pedopolitician

&gt;call ur rivals pedos

&gt;profit

&gt;only functional courts + trump 'intellect' avoided the worse outcome

No, by the government. Hitler had all the big firms under control and used them to build his military empire.

> Fascism. A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.

https://www.wordnik.com/words/fascism

The same thing Lula and Dilma did with Petrobras, Correios and other state companies.

I used to have one identical to this and carry it in a front pocket because I was paranoid of my back pocket being pickpocketed and with this I'd at least get a head start, plus i prefer to carry light https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HB2W5ZJ/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_1W964E6CECTT38777C85?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1

But now i got a popsocket wallet attached to my phone case since i only carry the few cards i need

It works good but just be careful pulling it out because the wallet can pop off without you realizing it

Already lost one with my cards in it

Yep, I checked out and 68% of maids are black here. The photo I linked isn't unusual to see in rich areas of the country. Middle class people usually cannot afford a maid to come to their home everyday, they come twice a week or something, but rich people can have maids that live with them.

There's movie I reccomed, the name in English is "Second Mother", I found it on Amazon Prime. It's about a maid that lives with her employers, she had to work there to feed her daughter, but she almost never sees her daughter because of it. She is like a second mother to the son of the rich family.

1. My absolute favorite book to recommend is Charles C. Mann's 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. It's popular science, remarkably comprehensive for a massive topic, and brilliantly written. There are a few places where it exaggerates some achievements, or takes the positive side of an unclear debate in order to glorify Amerindian history - but many fewer than I would expect from a non purely academic book of that length. It also does an excellent job of citing sources, so you can go deeper into academic work from there if you hit upon a particularly interesting topic
2. It definitely helped that my mom is a science teacher and my dad is a cultural anthropology professor. I always loved visiting old places and ruins, and liked being outside. And I was always most interested in the Pre-Columbian Americas - figuring out exactly where/when I want to study has been a struggle and is something I'm still doing, but I've leaned towards the central Andes because I've traveled there a bit and really fallen in love with so many things about that region and its past. I'm sure the same would have happened if I had simply gone to Mexico more than I did to Peru...but I didn't.

I really like Daniel Granada’s Reseña histórico-descriptiva de antiguas y modernas supersticiones del Río de la Plata (c. 1896)

Daniel Granada

Leftists.

It's hard to match the smugness and moral certitude they have while dismissing all their failures without a second thought.

If they do that with the current results, imagine what they would do if Cuba or Venezuela were even minimally functioning societies.

https://www.amazon.com/Fatal-Conceit-Errors-Socialism-Collected/dp/0226320669

This might be patient zero:

>In his dazzling new memoir, Richard Rodriguez reflects on the color brown and the meaning of Hispanics to the life of America today. Rodriguez argues that America has been brown since its inception-since the moment the African and the European met within the Indian eye. But more than simply a book about race, Brown is about America in the broadest sense—a look at what our country is, full of surprising observations by a writer who is a marvelous stylist as well as a trenchant observer and thinker.

sorry, but capitalism is not defined by free-markets.

free-markets don't even exists. free markets are just a fantasy in the neo-liberal imaginarium, every country in this world intervene in markets (u.s,germany,taiwan,canada...)

look at the USA (the dream of liberals in latin america), they always intervene in their economy, since the begining of their nation.

I say that basing my argument onHa Jo Chan: Kicking away the ladder

A TostiArepa and a Budare, both used to make arepas.

Well, I got two gifts, one gifted by my dad (Te amo Pa) and another self gift

This was my dad's gift. My earbuds broke earlier this year, he knew I wanted these really bad, and he got' em for me.

This was my self-gift.

Merry Christmas everybody.

> Also why did that economic advantage dissapear in the 20th century?

There's an interesting book on that: ¿Por qué Argentina no fue Australia?: Historia de una obsesión por lo que no fuimos, ni somos, pero… ¿seremos?

Myriads! But most of them are in Spanish, so unless you can read Spanish, I'll have to keep it short. Perhaps the best introductory book for the early period is Marcela Ternavasio's Historia de la Argentina 1806-1852, which I believe has been translated into English. For a more contemporary and focused approach, I always enjoy recommending Mark Healey's The Ruins of the New Argentina - Peronism and the Remaking of San Juan after the 1944 Earthquake which you can find here, and Federico Finchelstein's From Fascism to Populism in History, which, while not only focusing in Argentina, is a great read nonetheless, and you can find it here.