Due to realizing that Latin Americans have a deep, rooted xenophobic problem and that they’d rather throw a fellow Latin country under the bus and call them (neo)Nazis and Zionists while simultaneously supporting colonizers, misogynistic Zionist-allied countries, and genociders who are actively supporting a holocaust in Falasteen, I have fallen out of love for Pan-Latinism. People do not care for Falasteen or any Indigenous or African population in Latin America, and they’d rather suck up to America’s concept of race and participate in a cultural psyop against a country being ransacked by Israel, and unfortunately I have realized this very late.
I do not find allyship with any country that will sell out to imperialist nations for the sake of social media clout. My allyship will reside with the Indigenous populations of said countries who are aware of the realities happening in the places they live, and it will reside with those who are aware of history and do not want to repeat it, who are aware of the truth of our erasure and ethnic cleansing, and know that our voices and struggles matter just as much as other marginalized groups. We’ve been made invisible by an America-centric narrative that only puts focus on the racist and/or European individuals of our countries ignoring or straight up self admitted to not care that we actively exist and are fighting for our rights to be recognized and have recognized territory. We are being culturally erased and culturally ethnically cleansed for the sake of villainizing a country and continent just so right-wing governments can proceed to sell our own lands to the European (“Israeli”) bourgeoisie.
I stand with the Nahua, Mapuche, Kichua-Aymara and Guaraní people (plus various other Indigenous peoples) actively fighting against attempts to sell our territories. If you are sitting comfortably in your home, whining about a world cup and spreading misinformation and aligning yourself with genocidal colonizers only to then start crying and retweeting info threads about Israeli colonization, you are nothing but cattle to me and you are no ally of mine, no matter how much of a “leftist” you are.
I do not stand with a mentally colonized Latin America. It’s Abya Yala or nothing. I left below my previous definition for Pan-Latinism, which I would still stand for if it wasn’t for this realization.
Necessary reminder that I do not stand with any American or resident of Turtle Island that isn’t Indigenous. American opinions in general do not matter to me, if you’re not Native to that land, your opinion might as well mean nothing.
My definition of Pan-Latinism is strictly of Latin America, excluding every other country that has a latin-derived or romance language, but SPECIALLY from Europe. I do not associate with Europeans — let alone Spaniards.
However, I include any non-Spanish/Portuguese speaking countries located in Latin America and the Caribbean to Pan-Latinism, and I find an allyship with Equatorial Guinea, The Philippines, Catalunya and Euskadi.
I find it necessary for Latin American countries to unite against our colonizers and attackers, and I heavily condemn the xenophobia, colorism and racism in all of them. Pan-Latinism could be our lifesaver in a capitalist, eurocentric, white supremacist world. I am heavily pro-Indigeneity.
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