Cocaine — the most common colloquial term for the drug in Argentina and Chile. 'Merca' is street-level vocabulary, used without drama or judgment, the same way you'd name any other substance. The word is specific to the Southern Cone and understood immediately by anyone familiar with the culture.

A social media aesthetic built around the idealized productive woman who wakes up early, works out, eats clean, journals, and glows. That girl is part aspiration, part joke — most people relate more to the snooze button winning.

A plainclothes detective or investigative police officer in Chile — the cop without a uniform who works undercover. The 'tira' watches, follows, and operates in shadows. In working-class neighborhoods, being tagged as a tira can follow someone for years.

The baton used by Chilean Carabineros to control crowds — historically made from luma wood, a native Chiloé hardwood. The luma became a symbol of police brutality during the 2019 social uprising, when images of Carabineros wielding them against protesters circled the world.