@DavidNeiwert 1/ It's funny for us, Latinos, to whom all this happened in our lifetimes, to see how fictional this sounds to American friends. I was a member of the Communist Party at 14 (yes, la Migra knows it). The fascist media said "we" ate babies and killed priests.
@DavidNeiwert 2/ Meanwhile, they killed our friends. In 75, my brother had to "take a trip", four of his friends were arrested and tortured and one died. Vlado Herzog. The same media that claimed "we" ate babies wrote that he committed suicide. They didn't even do a good job: 
@DavidNeiwert 3/ Most people didn't know what we were doing. Not even us: everything was clandestine. Maybe that is why there is a new fascist "communist craze" promoted by Bolsonaro's mob: people my age didn't really know we existed.
@DavidNeiwert 4/ But it's extremely strange and uncomfortable to read and hear them talking about this fictional version of us. It's not something from 1917 October Russia. It's downtown Sao Paulo in 1975.
@DavidNeiwert 5/ How can they not remember? Well, they never knew. We were invisible. My name was Ana, by the way.
@DavidNeiwert 6/ PS - yes, it's ridiculous and scary at the same time to read the Quillette RW propaganda outlet writing about "dangerous" Antifa folks, that those milkshake cups actually contained cement and poison and... maybe they, too, eat babies, like me.
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