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minus-squareRNAi [he/him]hexagonhexbear31·3 years agoBolivia had a literal yank as president called Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada. He spoke spanish with english accent and even grammar of thinking in english cuz his first 20 years of life he lived in fucking Iowa link
minus-squareErnestGoesToGulag [comrade/them]hexbear20·3 years ago"How do you do my fellow Bolivians"? link
minus-squareemizeko [they/them]hexbear10·edit-23 years agothey'll twist the rules for their own, for Ted Cruz (born in Canada) they said you only have to be born a citizen link
minus-squareRNAi [he/him]hexagonhexbear15·edit-23 years agoTed Cruz father helped in the Cuban Revolution of 1959, then got butthurt when didn't get a cushy seat and emigrated to the US. You probably know this, but it haunts me greatly. link
minus-squareemizeko [they/them]hexbear5·3 years agodid not know that, and now I am haunted as well link
minus-squaremyopic [none/use name]hexbear9·3 years agoSomoza Debayle (Somoza Jr.) in Nicaragua too. link
minus-squarestar_wraith [he/him]hexbear2·3 years ago He spoke spanish with english accent In my mind that sounds like Peggy Hill saying "los estudiantes son mis amigos" link
minus-squareRNAi [he/him]hexagonhexbear13·3 years agoAll his political career was pure neoliberalism, absolutely horrible. link
minus-squareCollatz_problem [comrade/them]hexbear9·3 years agoIIRC, first presidents of the Baltic States after 1991 were from USA. link
minus-squareRNAi [he/him]hexagonhexbear9·edit-23 years agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GPs6s35l1Y link
minus-squarezifnab25 [he/him, any]hexbear5·3 years agoAll of them, during the colonial era. You literally couldn't governor Mexico if you were born there, under the Spanish system. link
minus-squarecracksmoke2020 [none/use name]hexbear2·3 years agoA lot of countries around the world are like this, but it doesn't mean it's always a bad thing. Ho Chi Minh was educated in France. link
Any Lat-Am countries where this is true?
Bolivia had a literal yank as president called Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada. He spoke spanish with english accent and even grammar of thinking in english cuz his first 20 years of life he lived in fucking Iowa
"How do you do my fellow Bolivians"?
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they'll twist the rules for their own, for Ted Cruz (born in Canada) they said you only have to be born a citizen
Ted Cruz father helped in the Cuban Revolution of 1959, then got butthurt when didn't get a cushy seat and emigrated to the US.
You probably know this, but it haunts me greatly.
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did not know that, and now I am haunted as well
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Somoza Debayle (Somoza Jr.) in Nicaragua too.
In my mind that sounds like Peggy Hill saying "los estudiantes son mis amigos"
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All his political career was pure neoliberalism, absolutely horrible.
IIRC, first presidents of the Baltic States after 1991 were from USA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GPs6s35l1Y
All of them, during the colonial era.
You literally couldn't governor Mexico if you were born there, under the Spanish system.
A lot of countries around the world are like this, but it doesn't mean it's always a bad thing. Ho Chi Minh was educated in France.