when it comes to miami politics, no one has their finger on the pulse quite like carmen. - miami is the shore where the people of every failed government of latin america land. - right, right. so well said. - and we keep getting them. nicaraguenses and the colombians and the brazilians. like, you know what government is currently failing in latin america from the accent you hear on the street in miami. - and usually what s helping the failure of our countries in latin america, sometimes. - exactly. - is the u.s. and i love this country. but also, this country makes a lot of mistakes. - no, no, no, they bet on the wrong horse every single time. and it s it s mortifying, right? - name a latin american country, and the chances are pretty good that the u.s. government intervened there at some point in order to secure their political and economic goals. for decades, the u.s. helped fight dirty wars throughout latin america, destabilizing economies and causing mass migrations. chileans came
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guatemala in 1954. el salvador in 79. the list goes on and on. those events often determine an immigrant s politics, for better or for worse. - i don t want to take us of our accountability. how many times are we going to get fooled? - right, right. - because every country in latin america, for the most part, bounces between extreme right and extreme left. - yeah, yeah. - of the many remains of colonization that we fight in latin america - i agree. colonization has not gone away. it still is so ever-present. - we like the strongman. we like - yeah. - we gravitate towards power because power is safety. if we cooperate with power, then we re going to be ok. - we feel safe. i mean, it s a false comfort. but yeah, yeah. - it shatters everything. - yeah, yeah. - and it s, you know something that i tell my extreme right-wing cuban acquaintances, like, i m against dictatorship on the right, and on the left. - right. - you know, to me, authoritarianism the minute i start to see that seed,
to bring an image from the conscious mind and put it out into the world. i paint a lot of stuff that s from my childhood, reflecting back on my life, so i just thought the name fit. - what is it that you evoke from inside your head, that you bring out? - i paint about the community. before, when i started painting, i was doing a lot of political work. and then i used to just watch a bunch of documentaries about stuff happening around the world, people starving. - inspired by community figures like salvador allende, roberto clemente, and jackie robinson, evoca1 s early work protested injustice. - so i started doing these drawings of these starving kids, and i started putting them all over my neighborhood. somebody saw them and was like, you need to do that in wynwood. - yeah. growing up, evoca1 didn t have access to a formal arts education. that was for the rich. so like a lot of kids from the dominican republic, he took up america s pastime. - so i dedicated my life to playing baseball
and the pitfalls that come with it. when it comes to miami politics, no one has their finger on the pulse quite like carmen. - miami is the shore where the people of every failed government of latin america land. - right, right. so well said. - and we keep getting them. nicaraguenses and the colombians and the brazilians. like, you know what government is currently failing in latin america from the accent you hear on the street in miami. - and usually what s helping the failure of our countries in latin america, sometimes. - exactly. - is the u.s. and i love this country. but also, this country makes a lot of mistakes. - no, no, no, they bet on the wrong horse every single time. and it s it s mortifying, right? - name a latin american country, and the chances are pretty good that the u.s. government intervened there at some point in order to secure their political and economic goals. for decades, the u.s. helped fight dirty wars throughout latin america, destabilizing economies and ca