A.M. Mora y Leon, whose writing often graces this website, has a new distinctions. A website which tracks the emergence of new words in the English Language, Double Tounged Word Wrestler, has cited her distinctive contribution to the language of Shakespeare, in importing the term "carcerolazo" from Latin America. Here is the entry:
cacerolazo n. Pot—banging is sort of an institution in Latin America. Except for Cubans, Latin Americans all do it. Known as cacerolazo (from the word 'casserole') it's a way of protesting a very oppressive or very corrupt political leader by banging on pots and pans. Usually, it's housewives who do it, and it has a very powerful effect. It symbolically says that things have gotten so bad that even housewives in their kitchens are upset. —'Dark days for Venezuela' by A.M. Mora y Leon VCrisis.com (Venezuela) Dec. 13, 2004. Categories: Spanish.
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