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@rubenluna7748
September 30, 2025 at 6:35 pm
A Historian who doesn’t really know history. Cool.
@andresfelipevegaromero5582
September 30, 2025 at 6:40 pm
This is too inclined to Mexico. Latin America is more than that.
@american_trilogy
September 30, 2025 at 6:49 pm
These are questions that are most likely asked by Americans, which, due to proximity to Mexico, has a warped perspective of Latin America centered around Mexico.
@Aphorim
September 30, 2025 at 7:11 pm
@@american_trilogy fr they think every latin American is mexican LOL
@Js78l9
September 30, 2025 at 8:47 pm
@@Aphorimno? Just most Latinos/Hispanics in the US are Mexican, so obviously more questions related to Mexico
@saxoeeee
September 30, 2025 at 6:43 pm
Minor correction: AMLO has now become Mexicos 2nd indigenous president
@macaco-ninja
September 30, 2025 at 6:43 pm
El dorado is based in a colombian legend in the Guatavita Lake. Thats why Bogotá’s international airport is called El Dorado until today.
@mrgreen9086
September 30, 2025 at 6:48 pm
Latino is a ethnicity not a race.
@MorbidandSarcastic
September 30, 2025 at 6:48 pm
He did an amazing job but can we please get another Latin support with emphasis on what is now Central America or even a specific Afro Latino support. Great vid!
@thegossipswan009
September 30, 2025 at 6:53 pm
For a second I thought this guy is Bad Bunny 😃
@Gioacco1959
September 30, 2025 at 7:06 pm
“Latin America” was named by Napoleon III to make it more like Europe, and the actual language of Latin is only spoken in Vatican City in Rome Italy (Europe).
So why is it still called “Latin America”, and Hispanic people called “Latino/Latina/LatinX”?
@Aorkas
September 30, 2025 at 7:38 pm
Because it’s the part of America where people speak latin/romance languages
@Gioacco1959
September 30, 2025 at 7:52 pm
@@AorkasNot Latin though. They only speak Latin in Vatican City in Rome Italy. And why are Italian people excluded in the “Latino/Latina/LatinX” definition when Italian people are at least as Latin as Hispanic people are?
@pimpmastert4980
September 30, 2025 at 7:10 pm
SO. MANY. COMMERCIALS.
@arthurmezacasa1021
September 30, 2025 at 7:21 pm
We need a part 2! There are so many amazing and interesting aspects of Latin America that could be explored! Slave trade, dictatorships in different countries, current music trends, religiosity…
@jorgetellez2098
September 30, 2025 at 7:32 pm
Benito Juárez is not the first and only indigenous president of Mexico.
Vicente Guerrero (2nd President of Mexico) was Indigenous and Black, and spoke Nanua. The same as Juan Nepomuceno Álvarez. Both came to power before Benito Juárez.
Other Presidents with one Indigenous parent are: Porfirio Díaz (Mixtec), Victoriano Huerta (Huichol), Lázaro Cárdenas (Purépecha).
@Gurrla
September 30, 2025 at 7:45 pm
Who calls Miami the capital of Latin America?
@treygregory5360
September 30, 2025 at 7:52 pm
17:30 sounds a lot like the 2020 election
@marianaduran6132
September 30, 2025 at 7:52 pm
Cool video, even though that was not a great example of traditional banda. I’m assuming it’s stock music.
A better example would’ve carried the point across better.
@BillGreenAZ
September 30, 2025 at 7:56 pm
I was thinking the same thing.
@Hensei5339
September 30, 2025 at 7:53 pm
This is not include Rio De La Plata or South America entirely?
@JasonMcMullen
September 30, 2025 at 7:56 pm
9:00 Historically is a key word, because none of the people who say that today lived in 1846
@neondotsmusic
September 30, 2025 at 7:57 pm
The way you phrased it makes it look like james bond was the before and after, like nobody ever celebrated day of the dead before the movie, which is completely wrong and kind of crazy for historian to say.
@PL-ex4ql
September 30, 2025 at 8:12 pm
9:02
He conveniently left out the part where Anglo-Americans were invited to Texas by the Mexican Government because the Mexican Military at that time could not secure the territory against raids by Comanche and Apache.
The invited Anglo-Americans were being used as a buffer.
@oscarcaceres666
September 30, 2025 at 8:18 pm
This guy is cool, but I would love to see one 1) presented by a LATAM native, not a no sabo, with all due respect, and 2) ideally South American because I feel a big Mexican bias here. Cheera
@dsd174
September 30, 2025 at 8:26 pm
This is the best video of its series. By a LOT.
@neminem233
September 30, 2025 at 8:35 pm
Oh I’ve been binging these history support so I love this new video!
Can you do one on West Africa please?
@joeyruin277
September 30, 2025 at 8:44 pm
The way el dorado and muisca never came up. Research more please
@LuisCastillo-tg6xw
September 30, 2025 at 8:46 pm
I appreciate that the host didn’t americanized the pronunciation of cities, countries, and people. Kudos
@jorgex9789
September 30, 2025 at 8:59 pm
The US army didn’t get bogged down in Mexico, they did take Monterrey for almost two years. No point on going through such desolated part of Mexico to get to Mexico City so they went by sea.
@ataco5912
September 30, 2025 at 9:23 pm
Amazing job! Vamos!!!
@AlbertMagnvs
October 1, 2025 at 6:42 pm
OMG!!! THIS GUY ACTIALLY KNOWS HISTORY!!!
@JonWoodard128
October 1, 2025 at 6:47 pm
You are ignorant. The border didn’t cross anymore who lived south of the current border. Furthermore, the conquest of Mexico is far more justified than your Spanish ancestry, who conquered the Indians. You are not a historian. You are an activist who is twisting history. Mexico started the war by crossing land Texas won through a similar Independence as most of Latin America.
@AlbertMagnvs
October 1, 2025 at 6:48 pm
CORRECTION: THE French were going to be received by Puebla-the French were there because of the Mexican Conservative party- nost Mexicans did NOT sympathize with Benitk Juarez.
@i10ghoul
October 1, 2025 at 7:03 pm
my ancestors are ignored by both the colonists and latinos long live the indigenous people
@i10ghoul
October 1, 2025 at 7:06 pm
death to mestizaje
@user-gt1kd9rv1w
October 1, 2025 at 7:06 pm
I love this video! He excellently & properly explained Haiti, which so many miss. One small thing I wish he’d add is that I wish he included that Haiti inspired many other LATAM countries for independence
@hectorquinones5579
October 1, 2025 at 7:06 pm
27:03 Isn’t that Pedro Sánchez?
@user-gt1kd9rv1w
October 1, 2025 at 7:11 pm
Fun fact, many Day of the dead celebrations are across LATAM, including Haiti. Most of them having indigenous spiritual traditions & beliefs.
@leopardmessiah
October 1, 2025 at 7:12 pm
If he was my history professor I’d never miss a lecture 😘😍
@iseytheteethsnake6290
October 1, 2025 at 7:24 pm
We are not Roman’s not Latin but mesoamerican mestizo and indigenous! We are more similar to Asians blood culture and music wise.
@soph969
October 1, 2025 at 7:24 pm
Hi, USA had a direct intervention on the Chilean’s 1973 coup. “Escuela para las Américas” doesn’t ring a bell? I agreee with the popular opinion, maybe someone fron Ecuador or somewhere a little bit southern should do “Latinamerican support” because mate, this guy clearly has a different vision on how horrible the USA imperialism was!
@N-Neri89
October 1, 2025 at 7:26 pm
Para ser hijos de mexicanos se te olvida que usa fue una colonia
Nosotros eramos un Virreinato
@caligarigamervod
October 1, 2025 at 7:30 pm
Well, I think Latin America is way larger than Mexico. Just saying…
@N-Neri89
October 1, 2025 at 7:30 pm
DEBERIAS DE DECIR QUE TEXAS ESTABA DEFENDIENDO LA ESCLAVITUD EN EL ALAMO
CUANDO EN MEXICO YA ESTABA ABOLIDA
@Daisy-ku8vb
October 1, 2025 at 7:56 pm
Now show this to trump 😂
@HughJassle
October 1, 2025 at 8:10 pm
He’s not a “historian” he’s an apologist, everything Mexico: GOOD, everything USA: BAD.
@carmenromo013
October 1, 2025 at 8:13 pm
Pienso que estás equivocado. El día de los muertos se celebra desde hace mucho tiempo. En algunos lugares solo limpian las tumbas, en otro limpian los huesos y cambian las carpetas o mantelitos con que los en vuelven, muchísima gente pone flores de muertos. En Aguascalientes antes de la película ya había desfiles, en Michoacán pasan toda la noche en el Panteón. JAMES BOND solo influyó en el desfile de la cludad de México. Lo hizo más de película pero tropicalizado. La película tiene ese filtro sepia y el desfile lo hicieron más mexicano, no tan Hollywoodense. La gente se comporta diferente.
@saidtoshimaru1832
October 1, 2025 at 8:16 pm
15:34 – Thank you for namig José de San Martín, because Bolívar wasn’t the only libertador, not for all of us.
@Gawernator
October 1, 2025 at 8:18 pm
lol he’s so full of it. Nobody alive today lived under the old borders before the war. Accept you lost
@enkilm
October 1, 2025 at 8:21 pm
What about Central America? They Always Skip This Territory!
@BurnCityBeats
October 1, 2025 at 8:40 pm
🇺🇾🇺🇾🇺🇾🇺🇾🇺🇾🇺🇾🇺🇾🇺🇾🇺🇾…….😌
@beatrixxxkiddo
October 1, 2025 at 8:51 pm
I see a lot of people are a bit upset with mexico being pretty much the center of this video, i get it but give the guy a break it would take forever to cover everysingle country in latin america
@enkilm
October 1, 2025 at 9:01 pm
Don’t forget the Darien expedition in which the Scottish Settlers were tricked into colonizing a place called Darien which was sold to the Scottish by a adventurer who was never in Darien so these settlers died of quatrain fever (malaria) until the local Amerinds came and took care of them. Darien is now believed to be in the Isthmus of Darien in Panama.
@SinnedNogara
October 1, 2025 at 9:11 pm
9:00 New Mexican history overlooked as always. The border literally crossed us, mentioning the people that the border crossed would’ve been nice
@alarm35m
October 1, 2025 at 9:15 pm
General Ignacio Zaragoza, who won the 5th of May battle, was born in what used to be Mexican town that is now Goliad, Texas. It is said that the first 5th of May celebration happened there in honor of the Generals roots.
@carlosgomez-sc1fm
October 2, 2025 at 2:41 pm
We are not a minority 🫵🏼
@y4lnux
October 2, 2025 at 2:52 pm
Colon areived to AMERICA, however never set a foot in The US, New Spain was not a Colony it was Viceroyalty, and was the richest region of the Spanish Empire It was the gateway between Asia (Philippines) and Spain, after the independence war chaos it get so weak that other powers could conquer the north or invade what is now mexico
@flexlevelfitness4713
October 2, 2025 at 3:20 pm
3:15… Is that the real question they’re asking?? 😆 🤣
@joecab1
October 2, 2025 at 3:54 pm
And if you go back far enough, the telenovelas that are even older had actors in actual blackface
@EyFmS
October 2, 2025 at 3:59 pm
There were CIA operatives inside of Chile when the coup happened and during the years that followed Pinochet’s rule. They trained officers in interrogation techniques…a.k.a Torture and gave logistics and military support to the junta. They even assassinated a Chilean minister IN the U.S. along with a U.S. citizen. To say they did not participate is a fallacy.
@daddychill777
October 2, 2025 at 4:15 pm
Latinos were up north as far as San Francisco in the 1700s. Let’s say Russia have taken all the Pacific North West, Latinos would still be there. My point is borders created by wars don’t erase history and usually most of the people stay, regardless of who’s in charge.
@NellieKAdaba
October 2, 2025 at 7:31 pm
True
@bienmal
October 2, 2025 at 4:17 pm
Mexico has celebrated Día de Muertos for hundreds of years, the parade is recent
@silvio6956
October 2, 2025 at 4:24 pm
this is was majority mexican history which, as south americans as a majority we DO NOT share the same culture as them. We’re not even in the same continent. South america as a whole is very different in culture
@NellieKAdaba
October 2, 2025 at 7:30 pm
But influenced by Spain.
@franciscovelasco7576
October 2, 2025 at 4:30 pm
Super informational thanks!
@xbsidesx
October 2, 2025 at 4:51 pm
Another curiosity: Portuguese is the most spoken language both in South America and the whole South Hemisphere.
@dibbidubba
October 2, 2025 at 5:09 pm
really disappointing video, a lot of incomplete answers.
@gerarda1705
October 2, 2025 at 5:15 pm
I know people get upset but
If you have a Doctoral degree in history you will actually know what he is talking about
I will give him an A+ or 10
@jivagni
October 2, 2025 at 5:22 pm
Man, these no sabo kids limiting the notion of Latinoamérica to Mexico and Cuba are so tiring. You’re so USA centric (world=USA) that extrapolating the same vision to Latinoamérica (Latinoamérica=México) is just natural to you. Coconuts
@CSenn_
October 2, 2025 at 5:40 pm
That was incredible! Every single topic left me wanting to learn so much more.
@SamWayne1999
October 2, 2025 at 6:06 pm
WHITE AMERICANS ARE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
@espiritusagrado2733
October 2, 2025 at 6:14 pm
prior to Islamic conquest of the Iberian peninsula there was already an established equestrian culture though…
@thegroovee
October 2, 2025 at 6:16 pm
Sure, Brazil is part of Latin America, but it is NOT hispanic. That is a considerable difference. In the US latino is often conflated with Hispanic. That is why many Brazilians say they are not Latinos
@Ratzorizzo
October 2, 2025 at 6:17 pm
So much wrong in this analysis. You’re clearly a product of ignorant WOKE education.
@thegroovee
October 2, 2025 at 6:23 pm
I gotta say that this video ignores a lot of Brazil. Brazil has a third of latin America population, and we were barely mentioned. No wonder Brazilians don’t feel Latin Americans. I guess, ou culture and history is too different to be grouped together
@Odhil95
October 2, 2025 at 6:35 pm
maybe call this latino history questions as this person clearly has a very gringo view of latinamerican history.
@pedrodamin366
October 2, 2025 at 7:14 pm
I’d say you’re an expert on Hispanic Latin America history, since you manage to ignore Brazil’s historical contexts in most of your answers. Since Brazil represents 1/3 of Latin America’s demography, I’d say that’s a pretty big gap you left there. A gap that isn’t fixed by simply putting Brazil’s flag behind you, though.
@NellieKAdaba
October 2, 2025 at 7:29 pm
Thanks
@zombi3lif3
October 2, 2025 at 8:18 pm
Allende 💔
@noname-p9b2j
October 2, 2025 at 8:26 pm
5 second in and this dude is a joke.
@mintisthenewblack
October 2, 2025 at 8:31 pm
26:33 The USA DID play a direct role in the Coup and dictatorship
@mikeunivers
October 2, 2025 at 9:22 pm
Este historiador esta interpretando muy a modo los datos, México no fue colonia , fue un Virreinato ya de ahi empezamos con todo lo demas , siendo inexacta y manipulación de los datos, no me sorprende se nota el socialismo y el comunismo en la piel , deje de creer en todo el cuento de esta gente hace tiempo, si Hispanoamérica(mal llamada Latinoamérica por Napoleón-III) es lo que es es gracias a la obsesión de querer instaurar sus ideas social-comunistas una y otra vez, La verdad debe contarse completa no solo lo que se ajusta a tu retorica roja.
@Haakin33
October 3, 2025 at 10:02 am
Let’s not forget that the Mexicans stole that land also
@daniadiaz1658
October 3, 2025 at 10:08 am
Just clarifying that, also for Puerto Ricans, we didn’t cross the border, it crossed us.
@damianbruno3507
October 3, 2025 at 10:12 am
As an Argentinian I think you whitewash Che Guevara quite a bit.
For those who are interested, search how he died and the hands of whom. That’ll give you an idea
@jesusbrito5165
October 3, 2025 at 10:34 am
See here’s the thing. Because of its caste system the United States tends to treat people as walking social identities. They create a template, tell you what you are and that’s it you are a walking race, ethnicity, anything but “american”. There’s no “American” even white assimilated citizens are “Irish” or whatever. This obsession with backgrounds is ironically a core part of their national idiosyncrasy. It’s frustrating for people who are not american, born and raised in actual Latinoamerica, to see our experiences negated and painted over by Americans who don’t really understand us but speak for us simply because their grandparents were born in Mexico and their country spend their whole lives calling them “latinos”. The professor is well meaning but he is bias. He is after all an American, born and raised.
@wereverKUROZAKY
October 3, 2025 at 10:39 am
Gusanos writhing in the comments cuz they cant stand history
@dach785g
October 3, 2025 at 11:03 am
This comment section is so enraged. Probably the same reason why LATAM isn’t as united as a region as it should be.
@incaraids
October 3, 2025 at 11:22 am
Aye! That’s my Professor. Dr. Avina is hella dope!
@CatChief01
October 3, 2025 at 12:39 pm
This is more like “Ask about Mexican American History with some LatAm”…
@poseyyddon
October 3, 2025 at 12:54 pm
“Latin America is the crossroads of the world”. Uhum… So the USA isn’t.
And it seems Brazil isn’t a Latin American country for US Citizens. Better name the video “Historian Answers Spanish Colonies History Questions” (though Mexico was the star here) and do an entire new video named “Historian Answers Brazilian History Questions”.
@wereallyrollin6680
October 3, 2025 at 1:16 pm
They came like eagles left like wet hens hahahaha 😂😂 goated quote
@NagiAlyxAlba
October 3, 2025 at 1:28 pm
Benito Juárez was indigenous, yes, but he was a freemason and had close ties to the United States Government, and acted as a puppet president
Exactly the same they have done in the rest of LATAM
@rayreyes9123
October 3, 2025 at 2:14 pm
AI Overview
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Pancho Villa atacó Columbus, Nuevo México, el 9 de marzo de 1916, por varias razones, principalmente como venganza por el apoyo de EE. UU. a su rival Venustiano Carranza, después de que este último firmara un pacto con Estados Unidos, o para vengarse de un mercader de armas que le vendió armamento de mala calidad. Villa vio el ataque como una forma de provocar un conflicto y evitar que México se convirtiera en un protectorado estadounidense.
@marcoolvera2233
October 3, 2025 at 2:19 pm
Im mexican and I do aprove this video 🇲🇽
@MrBirilo
October 3, 2025 at 2:22 pm
Brazil is not a Latin country because Spain and Portugal were once the same empire.. Spain just ruled over Portugal for a few decades, but saying it was the same empire is the same as saying that France and England are the same, just because they had some monarchs who ruled over them at the same time.. All countries have distinct cultures, ofc, but most Latin America share similar ones, except when compared to Brazil. And for people who think Brazilians are hispanics, it’s a wrong concept, Brazilians are lusophones.
@terioe-qk6xi
October 3, 2025 at 2:29 pm
Miami capital of latin América, are you kidding me?
@crebz5907
October 3, 2025 at 2:30 pm
Thank you Germans for giving Mexicans the accordion, the tuba and beer!
@sandradelavega3431
October 3, 2025 at 3:00 pm
Absolutely nobody thinks of Miami as the Capital of nothing in Latinamerica. That only lives in your gringo heads.
@IVALERIOI238
October 3, 2025 at 3:46 pm
I love this channel but this video in particular it’s so bad it hurts
@linamdiazv
October 3, 2025 at 3:47 pm
ok…ish? I think his answers were ok but could have been better, in many questions he could have explained the roots of the traditions and in others he didn’t explain very well the consequences of foreign intervention
@eliasgmx
October 3, 2025 at 4:06 pm
Mexican here. The day of the dead celebration did not start with James Bond. The day of the dead parade or alebrije parade was what started in 2015. The day of the dead is a long standing tradition that was celebrated with the one’s closest to you. Families would get together and honor their dead. Some go to the cemetery as a family, some just have dinner and others throw a party. We put up an altar with cempasuchil flowers, pictures of our dead family members and the food they loved the most while alive. It’s comforting to be honest.
@BZAKether
October 3, 2025 at 5:43 pm
I liked this one, but perhaps it was too much about Mexico and Cuba, which is understandable due to the relevance of both countries in the USA. But I think Central and South America deserve more attention.
@esmeralda478
October 3, 2025 at 5:49 pm
This was great and very informative.
I would argue that the US played more than an indirect role in the Chilean coup. It had battleships stationed outside Santiago during the coup in support of Pinochet. Declassified documents discuss how the US was rooting for Pinochet and putting its thumb on the scale.
@andrescordero8308
October 3, 2025 at 6:25 pm
errrm 5:12 is half a lie
Actually yeah hes right that in CDMX has never been a celebration like that before recent times.
HOWEVER.
In the south of mexico theres this thing called Janal Pixan which is a Dateless “celebration” about remembering death people and giving food for their souls.
Meanwhile in Europe there was this religious celebration the 31 of october, 1 and 2nd of november about their saints and animas.
The day of the dead is basically a mixture of this two.
@krf0077
October 3, 2025 at 6:37 pm
Gosh each fact beats the previous, thanks Professor! PRI’s 70 year rule really does make the vote rigging scene even more poignant. I wish I knew!
@losbrotherstires-wheels
October 3, 2025 at 7:02 pm
We need to stop calling ourselves what the white European establishment named us WE ARE NATIVE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF AMERICA. NOT LATINOS OR HISPANICS
@hero4963
October 4, 2025 at 7:46 am
We want Islamic History next by Historian Dr Roy Casagranda
@x1LuCkySob
October 4, 2025 at 8:48 am
Clearly biased Mexican man, can’t blame him.
@EdgarSalgado
October 4, 2025 at 9:05 am
I like how you pronounce Spanish names the way they should in Spanish.
@ElChicoTico
October 4, 2025 at 9:43 am
Latin American history through an American lens.
@Czarina888777
October 4, 2025 at 9:44 am
I disagree with his assessment of no day of the dead existing prior 2015. There have been two holidays, November 1st – El día de todos los santos and Nov 2nd – El día de los Fieles Difuntos (day of the dead). And people have been celebrating them for centuries. It has been a ceremony that many people share around the world. Where some they exhume their dead, clean them and celebrate alongside them. Not all regions do this but it is certainly an aspect of the celebration.
@Czarina888777
October 4, 2025 at 9:45 am
Get a better expert.
@oleoalves
October 4, 2025 at 10:53 am
I’m in love
@kdotrod
October 4, 2025 at 10:55 am
i had him as a professor in college for my “history of american empire” course. for all comments regarding the lack of mention of u.s. intervention in latin america, i can attest that he is certainly aware of its history and is passionate about the subject.
@markfeldhaus1
October 4, 2025 at 11:10 am
German mariners brought their accordians to the coastal regions of Latin America, including Colombia where I live.
@JoseAires-k7y
October 4, 2025 at 11:33 am
Do you believe Puerto Rico will eventually be admitted as 51st state, or will it finally gain its independence??
@MIKEHMIGUEL
October 4, 2025 at 11:37 am
latín América? Or hispano América, or iberoamérica. Was it really a Colonia?
@DianaAmericaRivero
October 4, 2025 at 12:15 pm
I have in laws who are Sinaloan. Banda isn’t influenced by Polka. It’s influenced by Bavarian Oompa.
@nelsonquintanilla748
October 4, 2025 at 12:58 pm
🤡🤡🤡
@drewd7824
October 4, 2025 at 1:13 pm
27 years is how long Mexico had what is now the U.S. SW states. So we have had it 300% longer.
@azul8203
October 4, 2025 at 1:18 pm
It is known that drugs were introduced to the inner cities in the U.S. by the CIA!
@deisyfordays9168
October 4, 2025 at 1:25 pm
I truly value his choice of words. He is an activist in my eyes because of this. The way we pass down information is important, as it has the power to influence the narrative of how we view/ know the stories of communities. Our knowledge on history influences how we choose to identify.
@franciscoolivo3629
October 4, 2025 at 1:39 pm
There is no latinoamérica. Hispanoamérica instead.
@franciscoolivo3629
October 4, 2025 at 1:40 pm
There are not latinos in all’ America. Latinos were in Latium. A region near Roma.
@painstar384
October 4, 2025 at 1:49 pm
Mexican and american is a redundancy. All mexicans are americans
Also, lets not forget that Mexico is in North America
@AGUANTE.
October 4, 2025 at 1:51 pm
Very much incomplete, just a Mexican gringo kind of historic view….
@PhuccjooMann
October 4, 2025 at 1:57 pm
This was more a history of Mexico than a true history of Latin America.
El dorado was rumored to be everywhere in South America. There were expeditions to Colombia and other countries in the search for el Dorado.
@Dhdhdhdbs-qu7oe
October 4, 2025 at 2:20 pm
Love latins, so why are white men ugly? And why do white men, always cough on other people and they cough on everyone’s food in restaurants?? Are white men just evil and they have always been historically evil???
😂😂😂😂💯💯💯💯💯
@Zingwaf54
October 4, 2025 at 3:50 pm
Latinx based answers, explain it truthfully
@oceanave.
October 4, 2025 at 4:09 pm
All the comments are so negative, he did an amazing job. Best one in a minute ! He can’t pick the questions thats on wired
@louiepalma2436
October 4, 2025 at 5:20 pm
With frida kahlo, it’s like backstage at the opera: me me me, me me me (do mi sol do sol mi do).
@gabrielcastillo9891
October 4, 2025 at 10:23 pm
27:35 I think is also worth mentioning he was a cold blooded murderer and homophobic. Also clarifying Castro was a dictator.
@gabrielcastillo9891
October 4, 2025 at 10:26 pm
This dude has a really hard time calling dictatorships what happened in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua
@dylanm8746
October 4, 2025 at 11:21 pm
And the Mexican hegemony prevails once more. Latin America =/ just Mexico! Not a word about Central America.
@luisjay21
October 5, 2025 at 1:03 am
0:33 For Mexicans and Peruvians, our history starts with the Mesoamerican cultures and Inca Empires. Thousands of years before 1492.
5:10 True. While Mesoamerican cultures used to have deities inspired by death (Mictlantecuhtli and Ah Puch), Christian Europe already had All Saints’ Day, All Souls’ Day (the main argued precedent) and Halloween. And a third argued precedent is the ‘Indigenismo’ and nationalist movements in Mexico after the Mexican Revolution, which swapped several European traditions for native alternatives. Then it became popular, known and loved worldwide and inspired the parade for a James Bond movie that led to its annual implementation in Mexico City LOL.
@rafaelsot01
October 5, 2025 at 8:16 am
This is why those renamed “experts” are only progressivism bullsh…t!!!
@rov_avila
October 5, 2025 at 10:30 am
Prof Alexander Avina (is it Aviña?) … This was a great video …. Would you do a series of videos focusing on a quick history summary of each country …. I believe this would be supremely illustrative for folks that are not familiar with all the different nations in Latin America
@luizsousa9108
October 5, 2025 at 3:03 pm
Mexican propaganda.
@brothberg
October 5, 2025 at 4:09 pm
It’s interesting that the major events of LA history were revolutions. Nothing about economic progress,, nothing about scientific or intellectual progress, nothing about human or spiritual development.
@bianconerocatracho909
October 5, 2025 at 5:55 pm
What I always confirm in these videos is that for Americans, Latin America is composed of Mexico and South America while Central America is given little to no credit, despite being a 50 million people strip of land.
@akashas6012
October 5, 2025 at 6:13 pm
An honest history
@SRWDify
October 5, 2025 at 11:23 pm
❤🎉
@danielavargas4956
October 6, 2025 at 12:45 am
As a Colombian, this is more “Historian answers Mexican History Questions”… the questions are barely about any other country, and when they are, he then, mostly, connects it to Mexico 😂
@HistoryForgeOfficial
October 6, 2025 at 2:48 am
Which part of Latin American history do you think is most overlooked but deserves more attention?
@weldongates7167
October 6, 2025 at 4:23 am
Even Ulysses S. Grant thought the war against Mexico was wrong. He believed there was no greater example in history of a strong nation fighting a weaker one for gain. But wars of conquest happened all of the time throughout history and that war was close to 200 years ago and people still complain.
@kitson51
October 6, 2025 at 11:42 pm
As a descendent of a family who was effected by the border moving and who lives in the borderland state of New Mexico, ya we still complain 🤣😆
@weldongates7167
October 6, 2025 at 4:28 am
Calling Che Guevara a medic was very generous. That’s like calling Bashar Al Assad a doctor. Che was the Stalin to Castro’s Lenin
@rikovanderhelm6836
October 6, 2025 at 10:40 am
Crazy to start ‘the history of latin america’ in 1492 in Europe.
@TheVigilantes15
October 6, 2025 at 12:51 pm
16:33 former Colombian soldier here:
The most inaccurate part of Narcos is that more than half of the actors are not Colombians and their accents sound more like a parody than a performance.
@taix371
October 6, 2025 at 3:24 pm
We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us.
@Siuiuiuiuuuuuu
October 6, 2025 at 3:41 pm
This is the LATINX whitewashed version of Hispanic history. This progressive communist sympathizer “Historian” has a picture of Che Guevara sitting proudly in front of him SMH. At 7:42 he states “Spain OR the Iberian peninsula” then at 8:20 he deceptively states “Islamic ruled Spain.” This is inaccurate as Spain was not even a country during 711AD. Brasil and Spain were never one crown, and Haiti being anti-capitalist is also incorrect etc. WIRED failed us on Hispanic Heritage Month, this “Historian” isn’t a follower of Christ with an ulterior socialist motive teaching as a “Historian.” I wonder how he feels if it were not for Spain establishing the first universities in the Americas in the 1500’s, would he be in academia. At 28:20 says it all, he calls political refugees who fled to Miami as “Losers of a particular or revolutionary process.” An authoritarian communist stealing a civilian’s land is now called a “revolutionary process.” Let that sink in. This man does not represent the Hispanic people or our history. Do better.
@yosoyyo13
October 6, 2025 at 5:17 pm
Aguante san martin todo bien con bolivar pero
@psmayaps
October 6, 2025 at 7:00 pm
5:57 no way the captioners couldn’t do a quick search to find the word “alebrijes”
@itzia.paulina
October 6, 2025 at 7:07 pm
the fastest 28mins fr, could watch a whole lecture of this man explaining latin american history, wepa lol
@danielvanderbilt7346
October 6, 2025 at 8:18 pm
I took History of Mexico with this guy at FSU
@bitterbunn1831
October 7, 2025 at 8:38 am
Most of the questions talk about “latin america” but in reality they are asking about Mexico, he didn’t make that distinction, perpetuating the myth that Latin America is only Mexico
@6TomCruz6
October 7, 2025 at 1:38 pm
Why does he look like a super latino Michael B Jordan
@danielsmedinac
October 7, 2025 at 5:28 pm
Almost everything said about Simón Bolívar Is wrong.
@themikerichardson
October 7, 2025 at 6:59 pm
love this
@TheJonesy425
October 7, 2025 at 8:30 pm
Os Brasileiros são latinos… sim, somos hispanicos…. não
@sebastiandoloress
October 7, 2025 at 10:13 pm
no mention of nosotros los nobles, no like
@gusadico
October 7, 2025 at 10:30 pm
This is really a Latin America history professor? His explanation of why Brazil is part of Latin America is completely wrong. It doesn’t have anything to do with Portugal and Spanish thrones being one at periods of time. It is because Latin America refers to countries in the America that speak latin derived languages and Portuguese as well as Spanish is a Romance language. Latin America is not only Hispanic America, mixing the two concepts is a very American thing and of course this is cuz this dude is actually an American.
@peterjohn86
October 8, 2025 at 1:39 am
Oh, so it’s about Mexico. Cool. Part 2, please.
@Theonintendo
October 8, 2025 at 9:50 am
I was afraid Chile wouldn’t be mentioned but I got lucky:3
@Revelrevan
October 8, 2025 at 10:00 am
2000 election wasnt the one that “crashed”, it was in 88
@DouglasLambert
October 8, 2025 at 11:35 am
This clearly targets an American audience, so I understand Mexico being the main focus of questions, but there was a lot of Latin America left to discuss (Brazil, Argentina, Peru…) This should have been called Mexico History Support.
@plantitasp
October 8, 2025 at 12:14 pm
Itvisbthe firs time I hear someone saying el Dorado was outside South America
@plantitasp
October 8, 2025 at 12:16 pm
As an Ecuadorian we have had celebrating our dead people since forever, we indigenous go the thumbs of our family members and eat lol. It is an indigenous tradition, sknutbmakes sense Mexico has this tradition too since they have a indigenous roots as well
@evanolet
October 8, 2025 at 1:19 pm
The US played a 100% direct role in overthrow of the Chilean government
@Fnxxxav
October 8, 2025 at 2:08 pm
Correction, the quoted election in Mexico happened in 1988 not 2000, in 2000 a different party won
@aye_queue
October 8, 2025 at 2:33 pm
This was video was objectively wrong and just terrible overall
@Eduardo_Espinoza
October 8, 2025 at 2:59 pm
I love how my fellow US Americans say, “Mexico isn’t part of North America”, when they teach tech Mexico is in the North American continent in geography in US schools, so they didn’t even pay attention & basically admitted to wasting tax dollars.
@sophiavalentinamarquezrami1016
October 8, 2025 at 3:43 pm
Question about any other country… OK BUT MEXICO
@estebanllerena384
October 8, 2025 at 4:23 pm
Soccer??? its football
@christophercruz1513
October 8, 2025 at 5:09 pm
For anyone who wants to see a good documentary that shows Hispanic unity is called , Blood In Blood out. Let me know if you saw it.
@MrMichaelNateB007MrMichaelNate
October 8, 2025 at 5:37 pm
I don’t care if they say the border crossed them. Every countries borders have been expanded or diminished by war.
@luisabolado
October 8, 2025 at 6:09 pm
thank you for talking about frida’s communism❤ not a lot of people talk about it and its such an important part about her thst just makes her more iconic
@valeriaochoa1929
October 8, 2025 at 7:19 pm
Historian Answers Mexican* History Questions
@gonzomalan
October 8, 2025 at 11:24 pm
25:58 – i believe you’re overlooking the Guatemalan elections of 1945 and 1951
@gonzomalan
October 8, 2025 at 11:31 pm
it bothers me so much that the flags in the background were hung backwards. even if you think tilting your head to the left is the correct way to view flags, the words on Brazil’s flag would be backwards.
@cynzix
October 8, 2025 at 11:46 pm
Si somos todos latinoamericanos en los comentarios, por que están todos escritos en inglés?
Todos cipayos 😄
@still_Here_I_Guess
October 9, 2025 at 12:08 am
Ah, Miami, capital of Latino losers.
@bogar7227
October 9, 2025 at 5:21 am
+ ? Many native American. Not Hispanic o latino
@LazyLinx
October 9, 2025 at 5:39 am
Not sure about the vaquero thing having anything to do with Islamic culture in Spain…
@brendac323
October 9, 2025 at 5:40 am
Your wrong about a few things, mainly día de los muertos. Its roots date back thousands of years. It’s rooted in belief of an after life by Aztecs
@molinavanesa3242
October 9, 2025 at 7:32 am
Why are questions so disrespectful?
@sabrinacova7533
October 9, 2025 at 7:58 am
This should be named historian answers Mexico history questions
@jorgeortiz4485
October 9, 2025 at 9:59 am
Definitely seemed like a Mexican-American perspective, no mention of a LOT to do with South America or the Caribbean
@rafaelaboth2314
October 9, 2025 at 12:36 pm
almost the entire video is about mexico. and a lot of questions were answered in a weird or incomplete way
@YukonGhibli
October 9, 2025 at 1:46 pm
More Venezuelans went to Houston than Miami, otherwise spot on for the demographics.
@Meowmeowmeow564
October 9, 2025 at 3:58 pm
Once again I am asking for Central and South Americans and Caribbean Latino history to be included in the discussion of Latin American studies. There is such a rich history to each country beyond Mexico.
@HinataPlusle
October 9, 2025 at 4:30 pm
Latin America is not just Mexico, and not even just Spanish-speaking or former Spanish colonies.
Not to say Mexico doesn’t have a complex and fascinating history or that it doesn’t deserve coverage, but this is really a Mexico support episode, not LatAm support.
@cgpnc818
October 9, 2025 at 5:26 pm
A lot of misinformation
@Wulf0w0
December 10, 2025 at 6:58 pm
Excellent guest, really enjoyed this video!
@ROBERTOLOPEZ-x9t
December 12, 2025 at 12:18 pm
That Banda and polka comparison, the Banda don’t sound like the anything that would get played in the Mexican radio it’s probly just another polka if anything it’s a Mexican polka or some time of Norteno or more like a ranchera polka mix
@gȗi-gúl
December 20, 2025 at 4:24 pm
this dude is so pretentious
@luis.enciso
December 21, 2025 at 7:27 pm
There is no such thing as “the Americas.” There is only America, which is a single continent made up of more than 30 countries. No matter how one chooses to frame it, there is no country called “America”; there is only a continent with that name.
America is one landmass traditionally divided into North, Central, and South regions, but it remains one continent. The concept of “the Americas” is largely promoted by the United States as a way to compensate for having a generic country name. In seeking a distinct national identity, the U.S. has attempted to appropriate the name of the entire continent for itself.
@oscarteran7734
December 24, 2025 at 1:02 am
First time I am disappointed watching a Tech Support video…
@leonardocampos2270
December 25, 2025 at 3:48 pm
This is a Spanish Latin America video at most and should never tried to be anything else. As a brazilian, found it very bad and misleading
@axelnovati
December 27, 2025 at 11:20 am
It’s funny because Americans think only about Mexico when it comes down to latin america but now everybody in the comments seem to know that there are actually more countries than Mexico.
@bernardorodriguez4285
December 27, 2025 at 3:51 pm
Also, great video! Te la comiste.
@Joaquín-i5q1e
December 31, 2025 at 10:05 am
Historia hispana, no «Latina», saca ese término colonizador francés de encima.
@Isaactorres60
December 31, 2025 at 11:31 am
He’s hot af
@acasualviewer5861
December 31, 2025 at 4:29 pm
Favorite film of latin american culture: 2 Filhos de Francisco
While it’s Brazilian, it does a good job of representing a life of poverty and social mobility in Latin America.
@TikoyTioAle
January 2, 2026 at 8:03 pm
Historian Answers Mexican American History 🗣️
@giannamason9848
January 2, 2026 at 9:16 pm
This was informative but he’s also very attractive
@Tejidothoughts
January 5, 2026 at 10:53 am
In Nahua/Toltec culture there were two month-long celebrations dedicated to the ancestors: Miccailhuitontli (for children) and Hueymiccailhuitl (for adults). These weren’t small rituals, they were full cultural, spiritual, and community-based practices deeply rooted in our worldview about death, memory, and continuity.
The Spanish didn’t erase these traditions. They absorbed and redirected them into the Christian calendar to make conversion easier. All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day replaced these two months and eventually just became the November 2nd Dia de los muertos festivities. What survives today isn’t “Mexican Catholic creativity,” it’s Indigenous resilience continuing under colonial pressure.
If we’re going to talk about Día de los Muertos honestly, we have to acknowledge the people whose worldview made it possible in the first place.🪶💀🌀✨⚕️
@fasterdays
January 5, 2026 at 12:46 pm
Yank with Latin American heritage explains the USA’s version of Latin America.
@victor382
January 6, 2026 at 11:50 pm
Stop saying Latin American and Spanish colonies when describing Spanish America, please, those two terms are too charged with prejudice and project a reality that was not the one that Spanish America had in the early 19th century or in the past. The territories of the Catholic Monarchy (official name of the Spanish Empire) was a confederation of kingdoms that were ruled in America by viceroys (alter ego of the king) and governors and had as monarch the Spanish king, but were highly autonomous and had one of the most potent economies in the world and controlled one of the most OP trade routes in the world (Nao de China/Galeon de Manila) with direct access to China and its vast economy (China was 40% of the worlds GDP at the time!). In the empires of New Spain and Peru the coin that served as basis for the dollar today (Spanish milled dollar / real de ocho) was minted and the empire had hundreds of cities and hospitals, over twenty universities that still exist today, etc. To wheedle down all that greatness to people in Spanish America were exploited by big bad Spain is insulting and a lie. Latin America is a term created by the French during the invasion of Mexico and as a way to use the term as the thin edge of the wedge to try to rule over a resource rich nation. As an example when the USA gained independence the GDP of New Spain was x25 that of the USA. Mexico City was the most splendorous city in the western world, more than Paris or London or any of the European capitals. And like Mexico City, other cities like Lima and Bogota, and Havana, Buenos Aires etc.
@muinteoirdior
January 7, 2026 at 12:14 pm
☘El batallón de San Patricio were specifically Irishmen. Be specific. They were tricked into coming over to the states under false pretences. Once they realised the Brits were at it again over in the “new world” they quickly switched sides and fought with the Mexican army. against the dirty Brits. The Irish always stand beside the marginalised and fight on the right side of history. Even when it’s not popular.
@jivescript
January 7, 2026 at 10:49 pm
I really enjoyed this video. It was very informative and entertaining. Cheers
@florgarza6409
January 8, 2026 at 1:05 pm
This has been a great Latin American history class…. Please we want more!!!
@hackyc9924
January 10, 2026 at 2:31 am
This historian is jacked👅
@boris-fv751
January 10, 2026 at 2:59 pm
Latin American history == Mexican history
@yonyonsita
January 11, 2026 at 1:54 pm
México, México, México, México México okey boring
@yonyonsita
January 11, 2026 at 2:05 pm
WE NEED AN ACTUALLY LATIN HISTORY LESSON NOT ONLY MEXICAN
@ricardowgomes
January 12, 2026 at 10:22 am
Mexico is not the only relevant country in Latin America. This is video is largely Mexico-centrist
@jfc1414
January 12, 2026 at 10:34 am
Malivnas Argentinas
@Citizen_Cozy
January 13, 2026 at 5:18 am
:::googles Tupac Amaru because I thought yhe only Tupac was a rapper:::
@ruizmorelos
January 14, 2026 at 9:34 am
Mexican here… like a lot that he states facts mostly without a political spin (very refreshing nowadays)… and some insights I’ve never consider.
Thanks!