gusano

plural gusanos · plural gusanoes

1. derogatoryA Cuban reactionary or counter-revolutionary.

   We had a Gusano come and complain about local Murals of Castro. So fucking funny, never expected Miami Gusanos to go around posting this outside their circle jerks.

   2023 October 4, u/YugoCommie89, r/ShitLiberalsSay (Reddit post), archived from the original on 10 Oct 2023

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   [...] in honor of the charitable work of the Cuban-born gusano singer Gloria Estefan and her husband Emilio. A few yards away, homeless people tried to get some sleep.

   2005 March 28, Michael D. Yates, “The Ghosts of Karl Marx and Edward Abbey”, in Monthly Review, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2026

   was amerika’s grip on Cuba and Venezuela and Hawaii and Puerto Rico and Guam and Iraq and Haiti and indian residential schools was the miami gusanos cheering for Fidel’s death

   2024 [2020 November 3], D. Musa Springer, “the apocalypse”, in Alive and Paranoid, Iskra Books, →ISBN, page 79, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2026

2. broadlyderogatoryA reactionary or counter-revolutionary of any nationality, especially one who supports and/or calls for Western intervention.

   A Russian gusano miserably arguing that the fall of the USSR was good.

   2024 September 1, u/Ok-Musician3580, r/CommunismMemes (Reddit post), archived from the original on 01 Sep 2024

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   Gusano is an insult used by every socialist aimed at people who abandon their country for western luxury. I’ve seen Chinese people use it against other Chinese (particularly Hong Kongers), Vietnamese against other Vietnamese, and obviously Cubans against Floridian Cubans.

   2022 September 21, u/AkenoKobayashi, “What is the leftist opinion on the term "gusano"?”, in r/Socialism_101 (Reddit post), archived from the original on 22 Sep 2022

   If you thought Iranian gusanos were bad, wait until you see Arab gusanos.

   2025 March 17, u/z7cho1kv, r/ShitLiberalsSay (Reddit post), archived from the original on 05 May 2025

   That being said, Colombia has always been dominated almost exclusively by right-wing gusanoes [...]

   2025 December 15, u/mattxrock, “Thougths about Gustavo Petro ? 🇨🇴”, in r/AskSocialists (Reddit post), archived from the original on 21 Mar 2026

   Synonyms: comprador, running dog