Latin America Quotes - Page 6

• I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America.

  Ruben Blades

  New York, Latin, Views

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• Across the world, in Africa, Asia, Latin America, everywhere, there is a widespread recognition on the part of the parents, too, that the children's life will go much better by being educated. And that applies to girls as well as boys.

  Amartya Sen

  Girl, Children, Latin

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Latin, America, Political

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I always read the Latin American writers. I love so many of them: Gabriel García Márquez, José Donoso, Alejo Carpentier, Jorge Luis Borges, Clarice Lispector. I also love a lot of American experimental writers and surrealist European writers. But perhaps The Persian Book of Kings was the greatest influence - I encourage people to look at it. There is such a wealth of incredible stories.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Kings, Latin, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are stories that are by and for Latin Americans, where a certain amount of cultural fluency is expected, where we can delight in the details, the humor, the particularities of speech, of dialects. Something is always lost in translation; we know instinctively that this is the case. A Radio Ambulante story looks at Latin America from the inside.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Latin, America, Radio

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A lot of attention has been paid in Latin America to the new generation of nonfiction writers, authors like Julio Villanueva Chang, Diego Osorno, Cristóbal Peña, Gabriela Wiener, Leila Guerriero, Cristian Alarcón, among others. These are writers doing important, groundbreaking work. So the talent is there, as is the habit of radio listenership, and what we propose to do is unite the two. We want to have these immensely gifted journalists - men and women who've already revitalized the long-form narrative - we want them to tell their stories in sound.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Latin, Men, Two

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If it is an element of liberation for Latin America, I believe that it should have demonstrated that. Until now, I have not been aware of any such demonstration. The IMF performs an entirely different function: precisely that of ensuring that capital based outside of Latin America controls all of Latin America.

  Che Guevara

  Latin, Believe, America

  Radio Rivadavia of Argentina Interview, November 03, 1959.

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• Many years ago, I started a foundation [Wayuu Taya Foundation] to help improve the life of Latin American indigenous people, providing them with food, medical attention, education, and also focusing on sustainability.

  Patricia Velasquez

  Latin, Years, People

  "Patricia Velasquez - Supermodel, Actor and Author". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, nicheandnook.com. October 3, 2015.

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• The workforce in Latin America was treated as a vulgar instrument for capital accumulation.

  Rafael Correa

  Latin, America, Accumulation

  Interview with Amy Goodman, progressive.org. June 28, 2013.

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• I would like to make it possible for many women and men in Latin America to win the lottery and receive the type of reproductive health services they so urgently need.

  Ruth Simmons

  Latin, Winning, Men

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• My government revoked my passport intentionally to leave me exiled. If they really wanted to capture me, they would've allowed me to travel to Latin America, because the CIA can operate with impunity down there. They did not want that; they chose to keep me in Russia.

  Edward Snowden

  Latin, Russia, Government

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• For years, overseas, the U.S. has been willing to not only tolerate what is in effect violent fascism, but implement it in country after country after country, in Latin America, in Africa, in Asia, overthrowing elected governments and backing the rise of military dictatorships.

  Allan Nairn

  Country, Military, Latin

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• Miami, which has already aired, has this wonderful blend of Caribbean culture and Latin American culture and Southern American culture (talking about fried chicken). All those combine to make for a very very interesting array of ingredients, restaurants, and the chefs that come there. It also has great seafood, not to mention the glorious citrus that's there. And all those things inform what you do - and they should.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Latin, Talking, Interesting

  "'Tangy, Tart, Hot & Sweet': Padma's Passport to Flavors". Interview With Brad Thomas Parsons, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 27, 2007.

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• If this government can send 20 billion dollars to Latin America to some peasants who have never fought for this country or worked for this country or have - or - and is sending hundreds of millions of dollars to Africa and Asia to try and buy friendship of people who will never be friendly toward them, then they should be even more quick to spend some - whatever amount of money is necessary to get inside of their house straight, before it's too late.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Latin, America

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• Maybe boutique media, maybe people who are reading papers and talking to academics and whatnot, maybe they understand, because they're high-information. But a lot of people are still unaware that I never intended to end up in Russia. They're not aware that journalists were live-tweeting pictures of my seat on the flight to Latin America I wasn't able to board because the US government revoked my passport.

  Edward Snowden

  Latin, Reading, Media

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• The comics of course, help the movies, because all of the comic fans want to see the movies. And the most amazing thing about it is these movies seem to appeal to young people, to old people, and to people all over the world. They're as popular in China and Latin America as they are here. That's really amazing and gratifying.

  Stan Lee

  Latin, America, People

  Source: nerdist.com

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• Latin America wants to decriminalize at least marijuana (maybe more or course;) the US wants to maintain it. An interesting story. There seems to me no easy way out of this.

  Noam Chomsky

  Latin, Marijuana, America

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• There are times when the gospel just seems to be powerfully at work in a nation, and thousands upon thousands are converted. If you think about what has happened in Latin America, Africa and East Asia all in the last hundred years, it is breathtaking. We have seen an expansion of the gospel as we have never seen before in the history of the church.

  Mark Dever

  Latin, Thinking, Years

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• I think Latin American cultures are really rich and fascinating. I like the pomp and circumstance of some of their rituals and ceremonies.

  Bitsie Tulloch

  Latin, Thinking, Culture

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• Catholicism believes in the Virgen de Guadalupe. The mother of God is worshipped, especially in Latin America. I find her very empowering. I find that the Virgen de Guadalupe allowed me to return to parts of my upbringing I had disregarded.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Mother, Latin, Believe

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.

  Ruben Blades

  Latin, Reality, Cities

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• The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.

  Fidel Castro

  Latin, Government, America

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• The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

  Noam Chomsky

  Latin, Sea, Luxury

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• My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, 'That's what I am'

  Oscar de la Renta

  Latin, Wife, Looks

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• There is one-and only one-way to end the violence in Latin America. There is one-and only one-way to terminate the drug gangs. That way is by legalizing drugs. Legalizing drugs today would put an immediate end to the drug gangs and the drug-war violence.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Latin, War, America

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