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LatinX writers are creating other worlds that depict the violence and corruption going on in their countries today. As many want to envision a prosperous future in their writing many focus on the chaos that is happening currently. Although these worlds have some futuristic aspects to them, they very much mirror current events. Author's are taking control of their narrative creating their own world filled with powerful beings and a country that thrives through chaos. LatinX authors have the ability to rewrite the future in their work to change the story of their culture. Throughout this article the discussion of present and past collide to vocalize the what is happening is current day society.

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How did LatinXfuturism come into begin

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“We need to reappropriate our future and stop thinking that we are a small, forgotten place in history, somewhere even the aliens would never come,” the Colombian author Luis Carlos Barragán.

"The avalanche of original science fiction is timely, arriving as many readers and writers in Latin America feel choked by the folksy tropes of magical realism and desensitized by realist depictions of the region’s struggles with violence."