Ariel Cajar

@arielcajar
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28. Panameño. Estudiante graduando (tesista) de Arquitectura @ Universidad de Panamá.

Idiomas/LanguagesEspañol (nativo), English (advanced), Français (de base)
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Ariel CajarDec 29, 2024

Mi innovación gallego-portuguesa favorita es que los verbos terminados en "-ir" tienen el gerundio "-indo" en vez de compartir "-endo" con "-er".

Entonces es:
"-ar" = "-ando"
"-er" = "-endo"
"-ir" = "-indo"

Show threadAriel CajarAug 11, 2024
Quizás el antídoto, que por lo pronto no existirá, sea que los propios estadounidenses aprendan y exploren que hay otras formas de experiencia colectiva que no son en torno a la idea de una raza/etnia/herencia. Comunidad, ciudad y región, por ejemplo. Ya muchos de ellos las conocen perfectamente, pero no terminan de digerir lo que representan estas formas no-raciales de coexistir y cocrear.
Show threadAriel CajarAug 11, 2024

Y es que la misma sociedad también les empuja a que tienen que ser un alguien de una "raza", viviendo con sus semejantes en lo privado, cultivando esa cultura en privado y solo conviviendo con otras para asuntos públicos, para no terminar siendo un "nadie".

En una sociedad que es tan individualista como es de racista, la segregación racial estadounidense se ha convertido de facto en la plataforma de identidad y convivencia colectiva, con todo lo problemático que ello implica.

Ariel CajarAug 11, 2024

Yo tengo raíces gallego-portuguesas bien lejanas (vía los Páez) y no ando reivindicándolas a cada rato.

Siento que esa necesidad de otredad que le inculcan a los gringos en su sociedad aún racialmente segregada (solo que ahora *supuestamente* sin racismo de Estado de iure) es la que hace que todos quieran vincularse a la "alemanidad", "italianidad", "latinoamericanidad", etc. de sus abuelos por más que sea ajena a su realidad propia.

Show threadAriel CajarJan 19, 2024
Panama has no rare earth metal deposits (that we know about), but still has minerals such as copper and gold, as well as there being the possibility of oil deposits existing within the Darién Gap. What seems promising for Europe is, at the very least, a reason for Latin America to stay alert and be cautious.
Ariel CajarJan 19, 2024

European Parliament opening office in Panama. Rare earth metal mining directly mentioned by a MEP as per Politico.

After the nationwide protests against the Donoso mine that resulted in 4 dead, 1 person who lost an eye and hundreds of detentions, not even counting economic losses, this seems... no bueno.

https://www.politico.eu/article/hats-off-to-eu-european-parliament-open-office-panama/

Hats off to the EU! European Parliament to open office in Panama

Move means EU body will have staff in Africa, Asia and the Americas.

POLITICO
Ariel CajarNov 12, 2023

Finally logged from a computer after some time. While I don't have almost any followers here and I have no idea of my reach, I'll use this account to, first, lay out a summarized timeline of the protests happening in Panama in English and then try to provide information on ongoing events as they unfold.

#panama #antimining #generalstrike #protests #environment #publichealth #corruption #poverty #globalsouth #latinamerica #firstquantum

Show threadAriel CajarNov 9, 2023
Blockades were already divisive among ourselves, but to resort to violence, much less to murder, isn't as socially acceptable as it seemingly is for all individuals —seemingly right wing all of them— now lauding Mr. Darlington as a hero against the curtailing of liberties and the imposition of so-called "evil global agendas", both ideologically-driven made-up contexts unrelated to the real context of the countrywide demonstrations.
Show threadAriel CajarNov 9, 2023
The real context of the protests is an entire country against a multionational mining company, its investors and the corrupt governments —plural— that enabled it. And while indeed the environment is at jeopardy, to reduce this to environment protests is ridiculous; to do so in the name of framing Panamanians and our struggle as "globalist pawns", malicious, if not outright evil.
Ariel CajarNov 9, 2023

My country, Panama, stands alone.

In the last couple hours, the vitriol from right-wing (mostly far right) accounts against Panamanian protestors and Panamanians overall has been overwhelming. "Eco activists", they called the two men shoot dead in cold blood by lawyer and professor Kenneth Darlington in Chame, Panama. The New York Post. The Daily Mail. Ian Miles Cheong. All complicit in this glorification of bloodshed. Darlington, an "American hero".