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Life in South and Central America
« Thread Started on Jun 26, 2007, 11:22am »
Hey, I wanted to contribute with South America :) Wrongly known as Latin America (which derives from Latin tongue people). Now there are some members that live in this beautiful continent or half-continent, depends on how they taught you Geography, really!

First of all, throughout our independence, our military governments and wealthy leaders, we South and Central Americans have always had the same history at relatively the same periods of time. For instance, right now there are several governments which hold "dictatorships", such as Fidel Castro in Cuba, Evo Morales in Bolivia and Hugo Chávez in Venezuela. The relationship between religion and power has always been strong, as during the 1950's with general Juan Domingo Perón in Argentina and his alliance with the Catholic Church. And yeah, most of us are Catholics.

Can anyone contribute with something more? Or do you want to know something about our way of living? Anyways, my breaktime has finished so I have to leave the library! Hehe, take care everyone!
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« Reply #1 on Jun 26, 2007, 11:33am »
I was going to make this thread! :o we have conection, Vic xD.

We can talk about life in our countries, if we are from South America. And I'd like to know what do you know about us! is really interesting to learn how our countries are represented in the world.

By the way, I'm from Argentina, and most of people says they know us for meat, "mate", "gauchos" or football :) but that's not everything really!
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« Reply #2 on Jun 26, 2007, 8:04pm »

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I was going to make this thread! :o we have conection, Vic xD.

We can talk about life in our countries, if we are from South America. And I'd like to know what do you know about us! is really interesting to learn how our countries are represented in the world.

By the way, I'm from Argentina, and most of people says they know us for meat, "mate", "gauchos" or football :) but that's not everything really!


I'm not that of an omnivore (kinda dislike veggies) but a really fierce carnivore and i LOOOOOOVE Argentina's meat :P :P :P ur very lucky
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« Reply #3 on Jun 27, 2007, 4:11am »

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I was going to make this thread! :o we have conection, Vic xD.

We can talk about life in our countries, if we are from South America. And I'd like to know what do you know about us! is really interesting to learn how our countries are represented in the world.

By the way, I'm from Argentina, and most of people says they know us for meat, "mate", "gauchos" or football :) but that's not everything really!


I'm not that of an omnivore (kinda dislike veggies) but a really fierce carnivore and i LOOOOOOVE Argentina's meat :P :P :P ur very lucky


Haha, that's kinda fun because... I'm ovo-vegetarian :D
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Re: Life in South and Central America
« Reply #4 on Jun 27, 2007, 3:27pm »
WHAATT?? :o Then let's change countries, Peru produces lots of veggies and large eggs, make it a deal? ;)
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« Reply #5 on Jun 28, 2007, 11:33am »

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WHAATT?? :o Then let's change countries, Peru produces lots of veggies and large eggs, make it a deal? ;)


Let's change countries, yey! :)

I know a bit about Peru because Vic tells me, you can tell some things then other people will know mooore!

South America <3 (not too much, but well, it has nice places)
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Re: Life in South and Central America
« Reply #6 on Jul 4, 2007, 7:52pm »
I feel proud of Peru for the following:

2nd place: scenery. It has it all xD from jungles, to highlands and snows, and two different kinds of beaches, the caribbean type and the cold one. Here are some trips that tourists tend to make

http://www.latinotravel.com.pe/paquetes/perubasic.htm

1st place: PERUVIAN FOOOOD!!! 2nd place worldwide guys ;) It's so WONDERFUL! I suffer when I go abroad and do not eat my food. I'm very capricious about what I eat =P if I had a boyfriend he'd spend all his money in buying me food xD Anyway here are some pics

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« Reply #7 on Jul 5, 2007, 5:20pm »
The first and the second have meat but the "suspiro de limeña"! it sounds wonderful! Someday I'll eat that food *0*
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« Reply #8 on Jul 5, 2007, 6:24pm »
it's so taaasty *w* the only drawback is that it is tooo sweet =.=UUU u need a glass of water when trying suspiro de limeña ;P
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Re: Life in South and Central America
« Reply #9 on Jul 6, 2007, 11:51am »
Ah! I LOVVVE Lomo Saltado. It's so good. I ordered it four times when I was in Peru. Yummm.
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Re: Life in South and Central America
« Reply #10 on Jul 6, 2007, 12:24pm »
Glad u liked it, Zach! I dislike ceviche. UGH! But I love pachamanca :)
I have something about food from the coast side... Except causa! :) It's delightful.
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« Reply #11 on Jul 6, 2007, 4:53pm »
Ceviche roxxxxxxxxxxxxx!!!! *p* so taaasty, as well as tiradito

I'm a food addict so I want to know the best Argentinian dishes when I go there ;P
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