We never pay enough attention to Latin America – which includes the nations of Central and South America – except when something is in crisis, like Argentina and the Falklands War, or revolutions and military coups.
As just a small example, I’m only now adding a category for “Latin America” for posts such as this.
There are probably any number of reasons for this neglect: a non-English-speaking world; only minor involvement in two world wars and the Cold War; not big economic players in the world (yet); not a big cultural influence (what influence has occurred has been via the American entertainment industry and translations of novelists like Isabel Allende and Gabriel Garcia Marquez); a continent fractured in exactly the way North America is not.
Admittedly Africa is even more neglected in everyday Western thought and for much the same reasons, but at least there one also can point the…
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