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  • Well, it's an improvement over purple 'yanquis' caps, the homeboy-baggy jeans and the sweatshirts with bad English printed all over them.

    Something French. Ann Althouse 2005

  • Notwithstanding his recent rant against the imperial "yanquis," Chávez indicated as much in an uncharacteristically modest statement designed for international consumption.

    Foreign Policy In Focus 2008

  • The deal has precipitated a diplomatic crisis in Latin America, with Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez accusing "los yanquis" of wanting to overthrow his government, and even Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva expressing concerns about the geopolitical aims of the United States in the subcontinent.

    Maryam Ishani: The Evolution of Colombia's Narco-Submarines 2009

  • Sitting under a poster of a playful painting by Carlos Cruz-Díez, a kinetic artist, most of those present proudly identified themselves as “pitiyanquis,” or petite yanquis, thus appropriating a vitriolic insult used with increasing frequency by President Hugo Chávez to describe his opponents.

    Reactions From Around the World - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Sitting under a poster of a playful painting by Carlos Cruz-Díez, a kinetic artist, most of those present proudly identified themselves as “pitiyanquis,” or petite yanquis, thus appropriating a vitriolic insult used with increasing frequency by President Hugo Chávez to describe his opponents.

    Reactions From Around the World - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Some yanquis are learning the ways of South American soccer fandom and some of their own customs are becoming Americanized.

    Soccer's Cross-Pollination Wilson Liévano 2008

  • I suppose that considering that Chavez could have just ordered to take it over and kick them yanquis out, we should feel pleased that they will get their investment back.

    Saturday morning factoid of the week 2007

  • When whites first ventured into Texas, the nahuatl dialect speaking Comanches referred to them as yanquis - strangers.

    Training School for Reconquista 2006

  • There's something about those yanquis and their dollars that always puts them on top of things, even in the heart of your impoverished communist paradise hellhole that doesn't follow the rules of immoral global capitalism.

    02/13/2005 - 02/20/2005 2005

  • There's something about those yanquis and their dollars that always puts them on top of things, even in the heart of your impoverished communist paradise hellhole that doesn't follow the rules of immoral global capitalism.

    A.M. Mora y León signing off... 2005

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