Etienne Figueroa

Curioso, activo, crítico. Derecho, ciudades, geopolítica, innovación, a veces todo a la vez. 🇵🇷 + ☭/acc.

[Institute for Hispano Studies @hispano_studies]

In the Americas, Spanish is the language of independence—not of conquest.

🇯🇪 New Spain → 300 years → 60% spoke an Indigenous language
🇲🇽 Mexican Republic → 100 years → 16% spoke an Indigenous language

Before the Empire’s 16th-century conquest of Mexico, there were roughly 350 Indigenous languages. By 1821, at independence, most still survived—and about 60% of the population spoke one. Castellanization had occurred only gradually, shaped by urban mestizaje, global trade, and epidemic-driven depopulation—NOT by linguistic imposition.

After independence, the shift accelerated. Indigenous language speakers fell to 38% in 1889, 16% in 1930, and just 5.8% in 2020.

It was the Mexican Republic, not the conquest, that imposed Spanish. The New Mexican state and their elites made it the national language, seeing unity in Spanish as essential for nationhood. This pattern was repeated throughout the continent, many 19th-century republican “liberators” openly sought to abolish native languages as obstacles to national unity and progress.

If we take the ~300-350 languages at independence (1821) and the 68 languages remaining today, the numbers are alarming:

≈81% of Mexico’s Indigenous languages have disappeared since independence.
≈19% survive today (though many are critically endangered).

[China en Español @ChinaEnEsp]

¡China acaba de subir a la civilización humana al siguiente nivel!

40.1 TERAWATTS de capacidad instalada de energía.

Eso es más que Estados Unidos + Unión Europea + India + Rusia + Japón juntos.

36 plantas nucleares en construcción 9 dispositivos de fusión en desarrollo Líder indiscutible en solar, eólica e hidroeléctrica Primera del mundo en reactores Gen-IV (HTGR y sales fundidas) La mega-represa más grande de la historia de la humanidad.

Es energía infinita limpia para el futuro. Sin guerras por petróleo, sin colonias, solo visión, ingeniería y ejecución a escala épica.

China no discute.
China construye. Y el mundo entero se beneficia de esta revolución energética.

¿Esto es liderazgo real o no?

¿Crees que China está definiendo el futuro de la energía global?

Comenta abajo

[Mahmoud Massri | مَحْمُود 🇵🇸 @MahmoudMassri15]

I have arrived in Geneva, Switzerland, and even at this moment, I still cannot believe that I am here. I still cannot believe that I survived the genocide that my people in Gaza are enduring.

For the first time in my life, I have left Gaza, and for the first time, I feel safe after years of fear and war. I am deeply grateful to everyone who helped me reach this place, and I will do everything I can to achieve what I came here for — for myself, for my family, and for Gaza.

But the truth is that only my body is here. My heart, mind, and soul remain there in Gaza, with my family in Deir al-Balah, and with everyone who continues to face death, fear, and suffering every single day.

I may be far away from Gaza now, but Gaza will never leave me. I will carry it with me wherever I go, and it will remain present in every step I take and in every success I achieve.

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

A very dangerous new nightmare we are living in Gaza City, and no one in the world is paying attention to it.

Days ago, the Israeli army installed huge military cranes, each about 30 meters tall, on the eastern areas it controls. These cranes are equipped with machine guns and cameras, and they fire randomly and almost continuously at tents, streets, and exposed neighborhoods.

Gaza City is extremely narrow, only 10 kilometers wide. A single crane at that height is enough to expose the entire city from east to west. Every street, every square, every tent, every house has become completely exposed. There is no place to hide, and not a single moment of safety.

In just the past two days, three people were killed by fire from these cranes. One of them was sitting quietly with his father in a small café, trying to breathe for a few minutes. Hours later, a 5year old girl was killed while playing near her home.

These cranes have turned the entire city into an open field. The latest military technologies are directed at civilians. We have become an open testing ground for their new weapons. The horror is not just in the sound… it is the constant feeling of being an exposed target at all times, where even children cannot run in the street without fear.

[Haz Al-Din 🇷🇺 @InfraHaz]

There is genuinely no way for “free market” Right-Wingers to cope over North Korea’s economic success story.

It hasn’t adopted market reforms like China and Vietnam did. It retained centrally planned, conventional socialist economics. And it’s thriving in spite of having been besieged and isolated by the US for decades.

That’s the power of Communism.

[Carlos Díaz @MARX_ATM]

La célebre frase de Deng Xiaoping –«El mercado es un pésimo amo, pero un excelente esclavo»– que creo explica donde se encuentra y hacia donde va China, encierra en germen dos ideas fundamentales de Marx:

1. La doble cara del mercado
2. El socialismo como fase de transición

[Miguel Ruiz Calvo @MiguelRuizCalv]

🚨ÚLTIMA HORA🚨

Estados Unidos se niega a emitir visados para parte del equipo técnico de la selección de fútbol iraní.

Además, ha prohibido a la selección persa permanecer en territorio estadounidense. Solo se les permitirá entrar en EEUU para el partido y deberán abandonarlo inmediatamente después, por muy tarde que sea la hora de finalización, sin tiempo para descansar. Irán tendrá que alojarse y entrenar en México.

EEUU no solo atacó a Irán traicioneramente, sino que tampoco es capaz de mantener unos mínimos valores deportivos. Esta es una situación insólita en la historia moderna.

Ante esta falta de decencia de EEUU, respondamos con resistencia: mostremos que todos vamos a apoyar a Irán en el Mundial.

¡Viva Irán, que se joda Trump!

[Santiago Armesilla @armesillaconde]

Toda la llamada "nueva derecha" iberoamericana quiere dolarizar su economía nacional justo ahora que EEUU está en lento pero inevitable proceso de declive imperial. Ni cotiza que con agentes cipayos del anglosionismo.

[Etienne Figueroa @etiennefi]

@barricada_azul1 @UnknownPR51 @hunger_51 @nixon_rosadohot @VozEstadista @consuleduc @SoniaMToroNaza1 @dreugeniomatias @AlanMcAbee7 @denisselebron @FelixPa26389658 Quieres decir ANEXIONISTAS.

[Etienne Figueroa @etiennefi]

@p_rexit @carlito939 @PRus51 @JustMeMariell *ejemplo *puede

[Etienne Figueroa @etiennefi]

Cuidao ahí, que yo (por ejenplo) soy orgullosamente reunificacionista e hispanista precisamente porque soy independentista (frente a Estados Unidos) y marxista (porque solo el marxismo-leninismo, adaptado a las condiciones locales, ha logrado revivir con todo su esplendor civilizaciones como la rusa, la china o la vietnamita). La civilización hispana igualmente piede fortalecerse, como la china, con el marxismo.

[Luis De Jesús 🇵🇷🇨🇺🇵🇸 @ldejesusreyes]

Lo más repulsivo de las expresiones de la gobernadora es el uso que hace de la primera persona del plural; ese "TENEMOS", como si nosotros los puertorriqueños estuviéramos en guerra con nadie.

Puerto Rico NO TIENE y los puertorriqueños NO TENEMOS ninguna guerra con Rusia, ni con China, ni con Venezuela, y tampoco tendremos ninguna guerra con Cuba.

Puerto Rico NO invade países, ni ataca a pueblos hermanos, ni depone presidentes; es el gobierno estadounidense, administrador de la colonia, quien obliga a la isla a formar parte de una guerra que no tiene nada que ver con nosotros.

Que Jennifer González se sienta incluida es algo que tiene que ver con su condición servil y colonizada.

[Etienne Figueroa @etiennefi]

@GOLONGRINA Sionista de m…a. Cállate.

[Kevork Almassian @KevorkAlmassian]

🚨 CUBA WAS NEVER ABOUT COMMUNISM 🚨

Tarik Cyril Amar argues that Washington’s obsession with Cuba was never truly about communism.

The Soviet Union collapsed. Cuba lost its great ideological and military backer. The island became isolated. And yet the United States never ended the punishment because Cuba’s real crime was sovereignty.

That is what the Monroe Doctrine really means.

For Washington, no country in the Caribbean or Latin America is allowed full sovereignty. They are expected to obey, submit, and accept their place as vessels of American power.

Cuba refused.

And that refusal — not communism — is the core of the conflict.

.@TarikCyrilAmar .@SyrianaAnalysis

[Belly of the Beast @bellybeastcuba]

Marco Rubio posted a video to Cubans claiming there’s no oil blockade. Needless to say, it didn’t land well with Cubans who are living through blackouts that became far worse after the U.S. began stopping oil from getting to the island.

[Chen Weihua （陈卫华） @chenweihua]

Ukrainians should thank Cuba and support Cuba against U.S. oil embargo. But Ukraine voted with US lately in the UN against Cuba. That’s ungrateful. Cuban leader Fidel Castro built a sanatorium in the beautiful Caribbean coast Talala for the treatment of victims suffering from the Chornobyl nuclear disaster. I witnessed that first hand there during my visit to Cuba. There was also a school for Chinese students learning medicine and Spanish etc.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

A 40 años del accidente de Chernóbil, recordar que Cuba acogió a más de 26.000 niños ucranianos víctimas de la radiación, ofreciéndoles tratamiento médico gratuito y vivienda de cuidados durante 21 años.

El régimen nazi de Ucrania a cambio, votó a favor del bloqueo contra Cuba en las últimas votaciones de la ONU y retiró su embajada de La Habana.

[Mila Zurbriggen |🇦🇷 mi unica bandera. @Milazurbriggen]

Palantir publicó un manifiesto donde dice que ciertas culturas son superiores, donde se cuestiona la democracia y se dice que la IA debe militarizarse y que Silicon Valley tiene que liderar el poder bélico de Occidente. Es una declaración de guerra.

[Ma Wukong 马悟空 @Ma_WuKong]

🇨🇳 Esta señora china estaba preparando su comida callejera y le soltó al cliente que odiaba a Estados Unidos, Japón e Israel.

Una ayi con principios.

[Ma Wukong 马悟空 @Ma_WuKong]

Una de las consecuencias de que Madrid se convierta en Nuevo Caracas es la admisión del nuevo clasismo tan común en la América hispana.

Estamos a menos de un lustro de que estos niños de papá «latinos» traten con desprecio a un gallego o a un andaluz por su origen.