Yes, yes, I know the economic climate and drugs are very scary real things. Of course. If you’ve had personal horror stories with these unfortunate Latin American facets, do tell as well.
But what are some horror stories that have gotten to you personally, or that you have experienced? Your anecdotes. Big or small, weird or horrifying. Could be something mundane.
From internet horror stories, to myths, to real news, to personal family history, anything.
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When the French tried to Genocide us back in 1803 they trained Dogs to eat us. Shows how the evil stuff Europeans used to able to get away with.
The horrific realization that no one will save Latam and everything will keep getting worse for most of the people in Latam due to mass corruption and ignorance. This is a forsaken land that will suffer for the sins of its fathers.
I’m really not sure, Im British but Brazilian by marriage and I have a better life in Latam than I ever would in my own countrym
I have personally seen people hanging on the streets medieval style.
I’m Mexican so yeah, every medieval story you can think of I’ve heard it.
Killing babies, cannibalism, extermination camps, etc.
There’s even a town in Mexico known for human trafficking for sex purpose and a culture and economy based on that.
I’m sure you can translate the article.
https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2012/05/120522_trata_mujeres_mexico_eeuu_sexual_pea
When people talk about a dystopian future on wastelands where there’s no law i think that’s Mexico now and has been since it was created.
And with all that, I still like to live here.
LA MONA🐵💁🏽♀️🙀
Funkytown, ayotzinapa, the extermination ranch.
The last military dictatorship. So many horror stories from people of all colours and classes, thrown into pitch black dungeons with snakes, rats inserted into body cavities, nipples ripped off, etc., all because their were doing social work like teaching poor people to fish or helping sick people. The worst is that landgrabbers – who were instrumental for the regime – would hire workers from the poorest regions in Brazil, and send them to the Amazon to cut down the forest with the promise of a good pay after two weeks. On pay day, the robber barons would call the workers, tell them to line up to get paid, and soldiers with machine guns would just rip through them, who were then buried in mass graves.
Also, throwing petty thieves from boats in high seas after throwing ox blood in the water to attract sharks.
So many horrific tales…
Most of my family on both sides are pretty awful people. For example, 2 of my 4 great-grandfathers were murderers. One on each side, both named Manuel.
Maternal Manuel owned massive swathes of land in western Jalisco and was despised by the people there for various things among them killing people he had problems with. He had connections with the military, so anything he did was swept under the rug. He also practiced a kind of feudalism. No I’m not joking. It was that in everything but name.
Paternal Manuel was more of a scoundrel, and hothead. He had to run away to Chicago after he amassed a huge gambling debt to a guy. When he came back, he murdered him. He also killed a drunk guy for pissing near his truck. He was extremely abusive/possessive with his family, so when my grandfather beat my grandmother (Manuel’s daughter) he pistol-whipped him and was moments from killing my grandfather in front of my dad and his siblings. He didn’t do it cause gramps hit his daughter, he did it because gramps hit HIS daughter.
My family were the horror story of rural western Jalisco.
During the Somoza dictatorship political dissidents were disappeared into volcanoes. During the Revolution Sandinistas publicly hung allies of Somoza and dragged their corpses around through the streets. Sandinistas pulling nails off of students as a form of torture, and beating them following student protests.
The case of the trio who sold drumsticks with human meat, and thinking that someone could have committed cannibalism without knowing it is crazy
Too many to give justice to every single one
Apart from daily horrors, at least in my country I was terrified of La Sucia. She is a ghost that appears nears rivers. She also scares you if you are washing your clothes at night. In Honduras, if you are washing your clothes at night, without fail someone of your family will scold you: “stop that or la sucia will spook you.” And at night, on the witching hours, you could actually hear someone washing clothes.
The recent case of Kevin Malouf, a plastic surgeon responsible for the death of Floridalma Roque, is shocking. The problem wasn’t just the death itself, she likely died from common malpractice, but the fact that Malouf chopped up her body and threw it in the trash. He then went so far as to dress one of his workers as Floridalma to stage a scene where she appeared to take a taxi and disappear.
And the even worst part is that, because he comes from a wealthy family and the prosecution and judges are completely corrupt and they don’t even try to hide it, he will likely avoid prison. This is despite the fact that there is a dismembered body, footage showing how they planned everything, videos of him disposing of the body, and testimony from his own workers.