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The love affair of Mexicans with the president continues 100 days after her arrival to power, with approval percentages reaching 80%, four points more than just a month ago. There are not many elements yet to qualify a good government, but nor to criticize it, so that citizens feel satisfied with the vote they cast in the elections, which raised Claudia Sheinbaum as the person with the most votes in the country's recent history. . “A huge disaster would have to have occurred for a person who received so many votes to lose support in such a short time,” says Heidi Osuna, director of Enkoll, the house that carried out this survey for EL PAÍS and W Radio between the 3rd and the January 5 through 1,203 interviews in homes. The retrospective vote is always higher than the real vote, that is, when people are asked who they voted for in the previous elections, the majority side with the winner. That is also what happens now with Sheinbaum. And whoever lost the most, the most preferences are taken away. It's the Matthew effect.

Very clear Marxist-Leninist language there comparing Viv Ansanm with the CPC/KMT alliance in occupied China. Kim Ives doesn't hold back in actual interviews.

But as usual, fantastic analysis on Haiti class dynamics.

On this day in 1959, U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista fled the country following the victory of Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement (M-26-7) at the Battle of Santa Clara, marking the successful conclusion of the Cuban Revolution.

The 26th of July Movement takes its name from the date of with a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953, however, the movement bearing this name was not formally organized until the attackers were released from prison in 1955. Public resistance continued sporadically until November 1956, when 80 members of the M-26-7 returned from exile.

Soon after landing on the island, a separate revolutionary group, the "Directorio Revoluncionari Estudiantil" (DRE), unsuccessfully attempted an attack on the Presidential Palace in Havana.

Throughout 1957, armed resistance from groups such as the DRE and M-26-7 would escalate. After a failed offensive by the government against rebels in the summer of 1958, the rebels launched a major counter-offensive.

On December 28th, 1958, after a fraudulent election in favor of Batista, revolutionary forces reached the city of Santa Clara. Seizing equipment from an armored train intended to transport government reinforcements, the rebels quickly captured the city, prompting Batista to panic and flee to the Dominican Republic with a personal fortune of more than $300 million.

In the following days, revolutionary forces entered Havana with no resistance, and Castro established a provisional government. The 26th of July Movement later reformed along Marxist–Leninist lines, becoming the Communist Party of Cuba in October 1965.

Batista later settled in fascist Spain, dying there in 1973 at the age of 72.

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On Sunday, United States President-elect Donald Trump said that his new administration will try and regain control of the Panama Canal.

His statements drew rebuke from Panama President Jose Raul Mulino.

What did Trump say?

Trump brought up the Panama Canal at AmericaFest, an annual event organised by conservative group Turning Point.

“We’re being ripped off at the Panama Canal like we’re being ripped off everywhere else,” he said at the Arizona event, adding that the US “foolishly gave it away”.

After Trump’s statement, he and Panamanian President Mulino traded barbs.

“Every square metre of the Panama Canal and the surrounding area belongs to Panama and will continue belonging [to Panama],” Mulino said in a recorded statement published on his X account.

Trump reposted a news article about Mulino’s statement on his Truth Social platform, captioning it: “We’ll see about that”.

On Saturday in a Truth Social post, Trump also hinted at China’s growing influence over the Panama Canal. “It was solely for Panama to manage, not China, or anyone else,” he wrote. “We would and will NEVER let it fall into the wrong hands!”

China does not control the canal. However, a Hong Kong-based corporation, CK Hutchison Holdings has operated two of the canal’s ports, located on the Caribbean and Pacific entrances, since 1997.

In his Sunday statement on X, Mulino also said that China does not have influence over the Panama Canal.

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Me llamo Bijhan Agha. Me trasladé a Uruguay hace muchos años huyendo de la violencia. Aquí puedo perseguir mi sueño de ser creadora de cómics. He hecho este cómic, "Los Legendarios Caballeros X", para expresarme y expresar mi amor por los superhéroes, tanto de los cómics estadounidenses como de la televisión japonesa. Hay artes marciales, travesuras de espías, monstruos, poderes elementales y drama. Estamos haciendo un Kickstarter para imprimir el cómic en inglés. Pero si te comprometes por 1 dólar americano, y me envías un mensaje privado en Kickstarter pidiéndolo, recibirás el cómic digital en español. Lo traduje yo mismo, pero también lo verifiqué con mis amigos uruguayos por si acaso. Me ayudaron con modismos y terminología sudamericana más reciente.

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Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, welcomed the heads of state and government of the ALBA countries as well as all the delegations that will participate at the 24th Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples’ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) at the Simón Bolívar Convention Center in La Carlota, Caracas, on Saturday, December 14.

Earlier on Friday, in a preparatory meeting at the Foreign Ministry headquarters, >Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil said, “At the heart of the revolutionary, anti-imperialist and Bolivarian Caracas, we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples’ Trade Treaty, the vital nucleus of the independence, dignity and sovereignty of the Great Homeland … Two visionaries like Commanders Chávez and Fidel were able to unite their capabilities and take the bold step, full of convictions and morals, to urge Latin America and the Caribbean that we must move forward, build together and unite all the forces of a heroic continent that has achieved so many feats for centuries, for its definitive liberation.”

The heads of state who attended the summit were the presidents of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega; of Bolivia, Luis Arce; of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel; the prime ministers of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit; Antigua and Barbuda, Gastón Browne; and of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Gonsalves.

After bilateral meetings and special activities, the heads of state and government and the delegations were scheduled to hold a private meeting, and in the afternoon they toured the exhibition depicting the achievements of ALBA-TCP during its 20 years of existence.

The meeting was also attended by more than 80 leaders of social and popular movements from 30 countries, belonging to the ALBA Movements.

Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Grenada and Saint Lucia are the member countries of this regional bloc that is essential in the current international scenario headed by the US and European imperialist powers.

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On April 14, 2023, Brazilian president Lula da Silva arrived at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People to meet with President Xi Jinping on his official state visit, his first since being reelected into the presidency in January 2023. Welcoming him was a band playing a popular Brazilian song released in 1980, called “Um Novo Tempo” (“A New Era”) by Ivan Lins, a song marking the transition out of a twenty-year military dictatorship. “A New Era” also fittingly describes the new stage that Lula’s return signified for China-Brazil relations, which had been strained under former president Jair Bolsonaro.

In 1993, Brazil was the first country to establish a “strategic partnership” with China, a relationship that has deepened and broadened at an impressive rate since. In fact, according to the Brazilian government, since Lula’s first visit to China twenty years ago in 2004, trade between the two countries had increased twenty-one times, with Brazilian exports surpassing the $100 billion barrier for the first time this year. Lula’s visit resulted in fifteen agreements and $10 billion in investments from China, which included expanded collaboration in space, digital economy, the automotive industry, and renewable energy, among others sectors.

This year, Brazil and China celebrate fifty years of official diplomatic relations. In this historic year, there are a few highly anticipated events, including the June meeting of the Sino-Brazilian High-Level Partnership and Cooperation Commission, the main mechanism of bilateral dialogue created during Lula’s first term. The presidents are set to meet during Xi’s November state visit to Brazil, which is hosting the G20 Leaders’ Summit. The importance of the Sino-Brazilian relationship cannot be underestimated in the context of the rise of the Global South, the decline of U.S. hegemony, and the emergence of a New Cold War. With a look back into the history of bilateral relations, how can we understand the importance of these two countries in the current conjuncture in pushing forward changes unseen in a century?

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Mr. Musk “has bowed down,” Paulo Figueiredo, a right-wing pundit who had his X account blocked in Brazil, wrote in a post on Thursday, when X first hired new lawyers in Brazil, signaling a shift in stance. “It’s a very sad day for freedom of expression.”

The Times failed to mention why Figueiredo was blocked, or his family ties—a connection it had made before, in the 2019 article “Investors in Former Trump-Branded Hotel in Brazil Charged With Corruption” (1/31/19):

Mr. Figueiredo, the grandson of the last military dictator in the authoritarian government that ran Brazil from 1964 to 1985, displayed a picture of himself with Mr. Trump at the Trump Tower in New York, both men flashing a thumbs-up sign.

The different framing illustrates the Times‘ double standard: When it’s useful to attack Trump, Figueiredo is identified as the grandson of an authoritarian. When used to criticize a left-wing Brazilian government as authoritarian, he’s introduced merely as a “right-wing pundit.”

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Journey inside the kitchen of celebrity chef Luis Ramón Batlle, an ambassador for Cuban cuisine. While U.S. sanctions impact the availability and cost of food, Chef Batlle says there is a silver lining: forcing creativity. “You become a magician, an inventor,” he says.

Batlle was part of the first delegation of Cuban chefs to visit the U.S. during the Obama opening. “It changed my life,” he says. But things changed when Trump became president. Cuban food culture, which was flourishing during normalization, has taken a hit from sanctions and other restrictions imposed by Trump and Biden. It is harder for Cuban chefs to travel to the United States, there are fewer visitors to Cuba and food is scarcer than ever.

Donald Trump’s arrival to the presidency of the United States suggests the possibility that his government team, with Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, will once again launch the “maximum pressure” strategy against Venezuela and its economy. This policy is yet to be defined.

On some occasions, Trump questioned the Biden administration’s relaxation of some pressure measures against Venezuela, due to the US dependence on crude oil. He also added that in 2020, when he left the White House, Venezuela “was about to collapse, we would have taken it over. We would have taken all its oil, which we have right next door.”

The now president-elect questioned in June 2023 that the Biden government “bought Venezuela’s oil,” as according to him, “it makes a dictator very rich.”

During his campaign, Trump refrained from making any comment on his approach towards the Venezuelan government or whether there would be any policy change on his return to the White House. He has not referred to any concrete actions regarding Venezuela following his election.

However, it is worth considering possible scenarios under the relaunch of “maximum pressure,” and how the Venezuelan economy could react to [asimilar] those measures.

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Diego Rivera (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈdjeɣo riˈβeɾa]; December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957) was a prominent Mexican painter. His large frescoes helped establish the mural movement in Mexican and international art.

Rivera had four wives and numerous children, including at least one illegitimate daughter. His first child and only son died at the age of two. His third wife was fellow Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, with whom he had a volatile relationship that continued until her death. Leon Trotsky lived with Rivera and Kahlo for several months while exiled in Mexico.

Due to his importance in the country's art history, the government of Mexico declared Rivera's works as monumentos históricos. As of 2018, Rivera holds the record for highest price at auction for a work by a Latin American artist. The 1931 painting The Rivals, part of the record-setting Collection of Peggy Rockefeller and David Rockefeller, sold for US$9.76 million.

Biography

He was born in the city of Guanajuato, Guanajuato, on December 8, 1886. At the age of eleven, he entered the National School of Fine Arts, San Carlos, where he was a student of Andrés Ríos, Santiago Rebull, José María Velasco, Leandro Izaguirre and Félix Parra. In 1902, he left the School of Fine Arts and moved to the countryside, where he dedicated himself to painting landscapes with absolute freedom, as well as to the study of pre-Columbian history and Mexican archaeology with Félix Parra. He also became friends with the engraver José Guadalupe Posada.

He was one of the most renowned visual artists and intellectuals of the early 20th century. He belonged to the group of Mexican muralists, mainly formed by José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros. He cultivated painting, drawing, engraving and sculpture; he also had an enormous interest in architecture and was one of the first collectors of pre-Hispanic art.

In 1907 he presented his first exhibition at the San Carlos Academy, which won him a scholarship to study in Europe. In Madrid, he worked with Eduardo Chicharro at the Academia de San Fernando and became acquainted with Ramón del Valle-Inclán and Ramón Gómez de la Serna. In Paris he studied the works exhibited in museums, became acquainted with the modern painting of Paul Cézanne, Henri Rousseau and Pablo Picasso, and worked in the open-air schools of Montparnasse and on the banks of the Seine River. He returned to Mexico in October 1910 and participated in the events of the centennial anniversary of the independence, organized by Porfirio Diaz

In July 1912 he returned to Europe, where he dabbled in cubism, was a disciple of Pablo Picasso and exhibited works in various group exhibitions. In 1920, he traveled through Italy for seventeen months to study Etruscan, Byzantine and Renaissance art. Attracted by the political and social changes that had occurred in recent years, such as the death of Venustiano Carranza, the new government of Alvaro Obregón, as well as the possibility of working and growing in his country, he returned to Mexico in 1921.

In 1922 he began his muralist period with the decoration of the Simón Bolívar Amphitheater of the National Preparatory School. Together with José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Xavier Guerrero, Carlos Mérida, Ramón de Alba and Fermín Revueltas, among others, he formed the Union of Technical Workers, Painters and Sculptors. From 1923 to 1926 he painted one hundred and sixty-three frescoes on the walls of the Secretaría de Educación Pública and the Escuela Nacional de Agricultura de Chapingo. Between 1927 and 1928 he was invited to the USSR by the Soviet Government and taught Monumental Painting at the School of Plastic Arts in Moscow.

Again in Mexico, in 1929, he painted murals in the Palacio de Cortés in Cuernavaca, the work known as Historia de Morelos, Conquista y Revolución; in the monumental stairway of the Palacio Nacional, Epopeya del pueblo mexicano (completed in 1935); the fresco in the Palacio de Bellas Artes, El hombre controlador del universo (1934); the panels for the Hotel Reforma in Mexico City, México folklórico y turístico, La dictadura, Danza de los huichilobos and Agustín Lorenzo (Carnaval de Huejotzingo) (1936), now in the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes; the frescoes of the National Institute of Cardiology (1944); Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central (1947-1948), originally for the dining room of the Hotel del Prado; and in the Cárcamo de Dolores, El agua, origen de la vida (1951). In his later years, he painted the façade of the Estadio Olímpico Universitario, La Universidad, la familia y el deporte en México, and the façade of the Teatro de los Insurgentes, to mention a few.

In the United States, he painted frescoes on the walls of the staircase of the Luncheon Club, of the San Francisco Stock Exchange; at the School of Fine Arts, in San Francisco, California, and in the house of Mrs. Rosalind Sterns, in the same city. In New York, in the Rockefeller Center, in the Radio City Music Hall building (destroyed fresco that he later repeated in the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico); in the New Worker's School and the frescoes in the Detroit Institute of Fine Arts.

He died in Mexico City on November 24, 1957.

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Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—The vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, has arrived in the city of Beijing, China, to carry out an extensive agenda to strengthen bilateral strategic relations between both nations, which, in 2024, reached half a century, within the framework of the multipolar world represented by the BRICS alliance.

The top Venezuelan official was received this Wednesday, December 4, by a delegation from the government of President Xi Jinping and the Venezuelan ambassador to China, Admiral Remigio Ceballos, the former Venezuelan interior minister.

During this visit, the vice president is expected to hold meetings with important authorities of the Asian nation to strengthen the relations in economic, financial, technological, and political fields, among others, that have been consolidated in the five stages of strategic relations between both nations.

China and Venezuela have raised their bilateral relations to a strategic partnership for “all tests and at all times,” beginning with the visit of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to China in September 2023, which consolidated these ties of cooperation and construction of a new world geopolitics.

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Santiago Niltepec, Mexico – Carlos Perez, a 30-year-old Colombian migrant from Bogota, was on track to reach the United States border with his wife and 11-year-old son by the new year.

The trouble came, however, when his wife became overwhelmed with fatigue as they reached the city of Tapachula in southern Mexico. By that point, they had travelled 2,500km — more than 1,550 miles — on foot.

So, Perez bought a bicycle. Often, he pedalled while his wife and child sat on the handlebars. On treacherous roads and at night, Perez walked alongside them as they rode slowly through darkness.

But a road accident in mid-November tore the skin from his shins and bloodied his wife and son's arms.

Speaking a day later from a temporary migrant camp in Santiago Niltepec, Perez expressed a fear that their injuries will cost them the chance to cross into the US before President-elect Donald Trump takes office on January 20, 2025.

“I don’t know if it’s possible to reach the border in time now,” Perez said.

Like many of his fellow migrants and asylum seekers, Perez fears that Trump will follow through on his pledges to "close" the US border with Mexico.

Trump, a Republican, has teased that his incoming administration plans to declare a national emergency and deploy military forces to prevent unauthorised crossings, which he likens to an "invasion".

Already, Trump has claimed that early negotiations with Mexico to crack down on migrants and asylum seekers have borne fruit.

“Mexico will stop people from going to our Southern Border, effective immediately,” Trump wrote on social media on November 27. “THIS WILL GO A LONG WAY TOWARD STOPPING THE ILLEGAL INVASION OF THE USA.”

Still, it is unclear whether his hard-knuckle rhetoric will help stem the flow of people coming to the US — or fuel it in the lead-up to his inauguration.

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Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez renewed, in a phone call with his Syrian counterpart, Bassam al-Sabbagh, Cuba’s support and solidarity with the people and government of Syria.

"We renew Cuba's support and solidarity with the Syrian people and government in facing the attacks carried out by terrorist groups on various Syrian cities," Rodriguez stated.

He also called for "the necessity of preserving the sovereignty and unity of the brotherly Syrian state."

"It is a pleasure to receive you at the Palace of the Revolution," assured the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, to Commissar General Wang Xiaohong, State Councilor and Minister of Public Security of China.

When we talk to our Chinese friends, he said, we assure them that their visits confirm the excellent state of our bilateral relations in the political, diplomatic, economic-commercial and social fields.

And that, he said, has much to do with "the historic relations of friendship that exist between our peoples, governments and parties, which were founded by the friendship between Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz and the leader of the Asian nation, Mao Tse Tung, and have been continued over the years by Army General Raúl Castro Ruz and the Chinese leaders.

The Cuban leader also commented on these ties, which have been strengthened in the current context, and underscored how "at the present time, ties are being consolidated on the basis of the consensus reached in the meetings we have been able to hold with our friend, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and President of the Republic, Xi Jinping."

Díaz-Canel sent affectionate greetings to his Chinese counterpart, while expressing his admiration for the leadership achieved at the international level, both by President Xi Jinping himself and by China.

He commented on the follow-up given from Cuba to the proposals made by that sister nation to the international community, to implement "global initiatives that express the will to defend peace in the world, multilateralism, equality among nations and peoples, the opening of possibilities for all, and complementarity, while rejecting hegemonism, and unilateral policies, sanctions and coercion."

His visit is also an expression, he said, of support for the confrontation of the policies of cultural colonization, hegemony and subversion that the empire exercises over our nations.

In a special way, the dignitary thanked his interlocutor for "the support given to the systematic, stable cooperation between the Ministries of Public Security of both countries, in addressing issues that are of mutual interest and to face common challenges, including the challenges imposed on us to enhance cybersecurity."

In the dialogue, among other representatives of both countries, were the member of the Political Bureau and Minister of the Interior, Major General Lázaro Alberto Álvarez Casas, and the Chinese Ambassador to Cuba, Hua Xin.

Mexico City, Mexico, December 3, 2024 (venezuelanalysis.com) – The Venezuelan government declared its solidarity with the Syrian government and President Bashar al-Assad following attacks by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in the province of Aleppo.

“The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela categorically condemns all hostilities against the people of the Syrian Arab Republic, carried out by terrorists led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which have caused significant harm to the civilian population and worsened the humanitarian situation in Aleppo province,” read the statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs published Saturday.

The communique further called for “an immediate end to the support provided by major Western powers and the Netanyahu regime” for the rebel forces attacking the Assad government.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro reiterated Caracas’ stance in a phone call with Assad on Monday.

HTS appears to have been motivated by a perceived weakness of its rivals in Hezbollah and Assad. The attacks by HTS, a former Al Qaeda affiliate, and their surprise rapid advances came following a ceasefire agreement between Hezbollah and Israel, opening up a new phase in the 13-year-old armed conflict.

The Venezuelan government’s statement accused HTS’ backers of seeking to “destabilize the entire region of West Asia.” The Syrian army and local allies are presently engaged in fierce clashes with HTS in the Aleppo and Hama provinces.

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“Minister Marcelo Montenegro and the president of the Central Bank of Bolivia, Edwin Rojas, meet with the president of the Interbank and Cross-Border Payment System (…), Hongbo Wang (…)”, confirmed the Bolivian Ministry of Economy and Public Finance on its social networks regarding the meeting held this Friday.

The text reported that during the talks, the implementation of this payment system was addressed as a new channel for financial operations in Chinese currency (yuan or renminbi) that can benefit those who carry out trade or other transactions with the Asian nation.

The CIPS is a payment system that offers clearing and settlement services for its participants in cross-border transfers and payments in Chinese currency.

According to a report by the BCB, this payment system arises from the need to transfer money to carry out operations directly between people, companies (public or private) and governments, or with the intervention of financial entities.

According to the authorities, Bolivia is targeting these operations with yuans due to its extensive trade relationship with China, mainly in imports. The bilateral trade relationship gained momentum since 2011, when exports exceeded 300 million dollars and imports 1 billion dollars.

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The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, asked US President-elect Donald Trump to lift the blockades imposed on Venezuela and Cuba, pointing out that these sanctions increase the flow of migrants to the US.

Sheinbaum and Trump held a phone call on Wednesday, November 27, where they discussed the issue of migration.

During her morning press conference on Thursday, November 28, Sheinbaum reported that she proposed to the US president-elect to implement new measures to to mitigate the effects of migration.

In this regard, she stressed that it is necessary to adopt a more comprehensive and coordinated approach. Therefore, she suggested the lifting of the economic blockades imposed on Venezuela and Cuba, as it would be a beneficial measure to reduce migration from those countries.

“End the blockades on Cuba and Venezuela, because all they do is make the people suffer and create phenomena like migration,” Sheinbaum declared.

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Hey there, I was wondering what good ways are to learn the Spanish dialect that is most commonly spoken in the USA since America has a lot of Spanish speakers and it's the second most prevalent language after English (like English, America obviously has a different version of the language compared to for example UK or India).

I had Spanish in school but only know a few basic things. I wonder if there is some way to really get immersed in the language (other than oc moving there and speaking with native speaker in person) to naturally learn it to be able to have conversations with Spanish speakers in America that sound as local/authentic as possible (so I don't wanna focus on artificial learning that focuses too much on grammar and uncommon words that aren't that important for everyday conversations).