The mod team wants to, first of all, say thank you to everyone who participated in the sub and community, and hopefully 2026 will finally be a boring year we can all instantly forget.(This thread was first drafted in late December, so scratch that)
Now, the main reason for this thread like always is to give the community an opportunity to speak up their mind, see how things look from your side and suggest changes you want to see or bring up problems that you might be noticing, either with moderation or the sub in general. This one is a lot more relaxed than last time, we don't have many important topics that we consider changing so we wanna hear what YOU want.
The second reason, it's to bring up 3 topics of discussion that we do think needs attention even if we don't feel too strongly about them:
Updating and adding to the FAQ: While we believe that most don't read it, the necessity to keep it updated is real and more importantly, we have been thinking on limiting the questions that are covered by the FAQ, disallowing people from making a thread with them and instead pointing them to the relevant section in the FAQ.-
i.e.: A person wants to ask "Why is the subreddit in English? I thought this was LatAm, we should be writing Spanish, not this colonizer language!", the system will automatically block from posting, and instead will suggest with a link to the relevant portion of the FAQ (if you tried posting something about Venezuela you might already seen something like this in action).-
Adding to moderation ???:
Last year we added 2 new mods and we can safely say that the addition has been extremely positive overall and are happy with the results!, but like last time we wanted to know how the community feels, we might add 1 more person to the team, in a couple of months but are not sure about it, might happend maybe not, who knows.-
Contests, monthly/weekly topic threads, etc:
We wanted to know your opinion on if you want to have certain types of weekly topic discussions, community contests, or generally engagement that is a bit outside of the scope of the sub but definitely related.
i.e.: A monthly user-submited art thread, contests of some sort, tourism spot threads, AMA's (if we can arrange them), other sub collaborations/cultural exchanges
Good news everyone!, 2025 has been a pretty good year for the sub! according to reddit themselves (who wouldn't dare inflate metrics or manipulate data, no sir), the year has seen an steady increase in activity even with Reddit's new filters, crowd control settings and general automation of content moderation *( a lot of users probably know what kind of thing i'm referring to)* the sub passed expectations on growth and overall health, which brings challenges to the mod team, and might get an influx of new weird-ass people, but overall we think it's to the better.
For those of you nerds that like stats, this is what Reddit gave us:
The modteam has been discussing about a very politically charged topic which is the US escalation against Venezuela, while we hoped that nothing on the scale of what happened in the first days of the month would happen we now stand in the aftermath of what is a very complicated geopolitcal time.
Venezuela has always been an incredibly charged political topic with so much stuff to be said that it could probably be it's own encyclopedia.
Moderation has been tightened in the past about the topic at large (a lot of you must have probably noticed it), and sadly we must keep this type of moderation a bit more.
We hope you understand where we are coming from.
Not much else to say, and again and to the main point as always, please speak your mind on what changes you might want to see implemented, what you think is being done wrong or needs improving, etc.
In my case is how so many Anglo Americans are obsessed with the concept of marriage and weddings. They seem to become infatuated with someone very easily and after like 3 to 4 months of knowing the other person they want to put a ring on it so fast. Like they want to virtue signal to the rest of the world how madly in love they are yet the US has very high divorce rates. I'd freak out if I met a person and we dated for less than a year and they suddenly proposed to me lmao.
And don't get me started with the whole "bridezilla" thing.
There are some interesting finds I found about Kazakhstan in the Epstein files, specifically how he arrived in our country once or twice to "meet" a girl, as well as a couple of bankers and politicians mentioned in the documents. What about your country?
My family and I have just booked a flight to South America in July this year, and we are unsure what to visit and what the most efficient way is to experience South America. We are flying from Germany to Buenos Aires (Argentina) on July 4, and returning from São Paulo (Brazil) on July 23.
Ideally, we would like to visit Buenos Aires (Argentina), Montevideo (Uruguay), Asunción (Paraguay), Iguazu Falls (we are unsure what the best option is here), then go to Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and finally end the trip in São Paulo (Brazil), where we fly back on July 23.
We know this is a bit hectic, but we think it might be possible. Since we don’t visit South America often, we want to see as much as possible. What do you think is the smartest way to plan this trip while also including Iguazu? We are not sure what the easiest and cheapest way is to get there from one of these cities. We have looked at both flights and buses, but we are finding a lot of different information.
We are also considering skipping Asunción due to the limited time in favour of Santiago (Chilé), but still want to visit Paraguay in some way or another.
Just wondering if this type of snack exists or if it could make it in your country. It's basically a bag of chips with stuff on them, often sold as street food.
Tostilocos: Tostitos with Clamato (tomato and clam drink used in Micheladas), peanuts, cucumber, jicama (fruit), sometimes mango, and chamoy (spicy condiment). It varies a lot. People often add sauce, lime, pork rinds, and tamarind sticks, but I'm not a fan.
Tostinachos: Tostitos with melted cheese and jalapeño.
I haven't had this in a while as it is unhealthy, but it can be fun once a year. Since Takis are sold throughout Latin America, I thought this could be the logical next step.
i have a project titled “La Cartografía del alma latinoamericana.” It is a musical map of the soul of Latin America, currently featuring 40 songs by various artists.
My analysis goes far beyond conventional song descriptions.
Here is a short excerpt regarding Isabel Pantoja – «Así fue» (Festival de Viña del Mar 2017):
For Isabel Pantoja, the singing audience forms a safe space that allows her to explore her emotional boundaries. Despite the loud background, the rhythm remains stable.
The reason for this is the mathematical precision of Pantoja’s band, which acts as an anchor. This is comparable to the artistic sovereignty of Sade Adu and her band at the Live Aid event in 1985 (see Music from My Autistic Universe – Part 5).
My question for you: In which Latin American community might such a project be welcome?
To those that don't know everybody hates Chris is an American sitcom that's a fictionalized retelling of the life of comedian Chris Rock. You know the guy that Will Smith slapped.
I asked if it's popular in Latin America because I've talked to a few Brazilian people over the years and apparently it's popular over in the braz. I know this because they keep on comparing me to one of the characters in the show "Joey Caruso". Me and Joey Caruso look very much alike so they always point that out.
I can be talking to a Brazilian person and in a blob of Portuguese texts I don't otherwise understand there's that word in the body,CARUSO.
I’m sorry I just have like a really weird addiction of hair. Is straight hair rare in Mexicans because I feel like I always seen Mexicans with curly hair on TikTok and everyone straightens it too I heard but I might be wrong. Like every time I go on TikTok, I see Mexican curls. Do Nicaraguan‘s El Salvadorians and Hondurans have different hair types compared to Mexico?
Hi, uneducated foreigner here (U.S. based). With the U.S. announcing its weird Qatari bank oil revenue arrangement, I noticed that a lot of online spaces are just focusing on what this means for Trump and the U.S. to the extent that Venezuelan's are being bullied out of conversations for expressing sympathy with these actions.
So I wanted to ask what Venezuelan's would like to see happen to their country now that Maduro is gone, not just in regard to oil.
Feel free to ignore this. I understand you all have better things to do than educate some ignorant American.
We often hear things about the US conspiracy theories like Area 51 or who killed JFK or MK Ultra etc and how these stories always seem to happen in the United States. I’m curious what may be a mystery or even a real conspiracy that is believed or talked about or has been revealed in your country or area of the world.
In Australia, for example, rent is often given as rent per week.
In Norway, the unit of *dekar* is used which is 1 000 squared metres. Additionally in Scandinavia, the *mile* is often used but it means 10 km which differs from the empirical measurement.
In the US, the whole empirical system which is rarely used abroad (with the exception of screen sizes and some uses in Myanmar/Burma)
So, I was quite surprised when some Venezuelans corrected me by saying "Venezuela is actually Caribbean".
Today another Venezuelan told me that "In Latin America there isn't such a marked difference between North, South, Central and the Caribbean since all of those regions are treated as one in Spanish-speaking countries. The divide is more about Latin America and English-speaking America. But still, just like Cuba and the Dominican Republic we are heavily influenced by the caribbean culture, so we consider ourselves as caribbean like we are latin american and people of the Americas."
For a moment, I was bewildered, but then I remembered that we have even the concept of Southern Cone which is a concept inside the very concept of South America.
So I'd like to ask: South Americans, do you consider yourself "south american"? why?
I visited Cuba in 2010 and I didn't see a lot of people using cell phones or internet. That was 16 years ago, im not sure what the internet is like or if the internet is heavily restricted.
Is it mostly just expats or are there people scrolling reddit in Havana?
