***but at least they have assimilated !! ***
I’ve read that Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna later went and lived on Staten Island NY for several years while trying to interest Americans in a substance he called Chicle. We know it as Bubble gum, the Curse of Santa Anna.
Think of him the next time you feel stuck to the pavement.
In Latin-American Spanish slang the word for gossip is also “chicle” because of the constant moving of the mouth of gossips as in chewing gum.