Latin America Quotes - Page 6

• Furthermore, the Latin American nuclear-weapon free zone which is now nearing completion has become in several respects an example which, notwithstanding the different characteristics of each region, is rich in inspiration.

  Alfonso Garcia Robles

  Latin, Inspiration, Example

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• The goal of Latin American unity is highly ephemeral. Each country has its own set of goals and very different sets of leaders.

  Riordan Roett

  Country, Latin, Goal

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• There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.

  Barbara Amiel

  Wall, Military, Latin

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• Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.

  Terri Windling

  Latin, Magic Realism, Hygiene

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• Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.

  Lin Biao

  Latin, Europe, Cities

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• In the final analysis, the whole cause of world revolution hinges on the revolutionary struggles of the Asian, African and Latin American people who make up the overwhelming majority of the world's population.

  Lin Biao

  Latin, Struggle, People

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• My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.

  Desi Arnaz

  Latin, Blow, America

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• Dispossessed peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, hungry nomads turn their herds out into fragile African rangeland, reducing it to desert, and small farmers in India and the Philippines cultivate steep slopes, exposing them to the erosive powers of rain. Perhaps half the world's billion-plus absolute poor are caught in a downward spiral of ecological and economic impoverishment. In desperation, they knowingly abuse the land, salvaging the present by savaging the future.

  Alan Thein Durning

  Latin, Rain, Land

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• I'm a first generation American. My mother is Italian and Russian and a lot of other things, and my father is Uruguayan. In fact, my mother's been married twice, and both men were Uruguayan. So I grew up in a very European/Latin American-influenced home.

  Sebastian Arcelus

  Mother, Latin, Father

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Country, Latin, America

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• One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early September 1989, a major government-media blitz was launched by the President. That month the AP wires carried more stories about drugs than about Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa combined. If you looked at television, every news program had a big section on how drugs were destroying our society, becoming the greatest threat to our existence, etc.

  Noam Chomsky

  Latin, Media, Government

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• Colombia has a huge variety of plant and animal species, and we have enormous potential. Small and mid-sized companies should come to Colombia. From here, they have access to the entire Latin American market.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Latin, Animal, Plant

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• According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Latin, Years, America

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• The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Latin, Years, America

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• I asked the producers when I was doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' if they could give me a VHS recording of the film that I could show to my family, because in Mexico and Latin America, when you do a film, you don't expect anybody to see it, especially not in the cinema.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Latin, America, Giving

  Guardian interviews at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2006.

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• Brazil has a lot of issues that are similar to a lot of countries in Latin America, but the dominant issue Brazil is dealing with is poverty and political corruption.

  Morena Baccarin

  Country, Latin, America

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Europe would be well advised to pay more attention to Latin America. The emerging economies are the engines of the global economy. Colombia has done too little to improve its reputation in Europe.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Latin, America, Europe

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• In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Atheist, Latin, America

  "Novel Politics". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. April 30, 2006.

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• Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently motivated but equally fearful, become accomplices in maintaining a clerical and irrelevant Church. Sacralizing employees and property, this Church becomes progressively more blind to the possibilities of Sacralizing person and community.

  Ivan Illich

  Latin, America, Community

  Ivan Illich (1970). “The church, change, and development”

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• Business often does a good job supporting communities: the arts, universities, and scientific enterprises... But that philosophy has rarely reached poor countries. Even businesses that are enlightened in their home bases see Africa, Latin America, and parts of Asia as places to exploit natural resources or use cheap labor.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Country, Art, Jobs

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• Of course I'm a black writer... I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't marginal anymore. We have to acknowledge that the thing we call "literature" is more pluralistic now, just as society ought to be. The melting pot never worked. We ought to be able to accept on equal terms everybody from the Hasidim to Walter Lippmann, from the Rastafarians to Ralph Bunche.

  Toni Morrison

  Latin, Writing, Black

  Newsweek Interview, March 30, 1981.

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• I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.

  Bianca Jagger

  Latin, Thinking, Government

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• The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Latin, Years, America

  "Eduardo Galeano, leading voice of Latin American left, dies aged 74" by Ashifa Kassam, Sam Jones, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2015.

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• The Latin American cause is about all a social cause: the rebirth of Latin America must start with the overthrow of its masters, country by country. We are entering times of rebellion and change. There are those who believe that destiny rests on the knees of the gods; but the truth is that it confronts the conscience of man with a burning challenge.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Country, Latin, Believe

  Eduardo Galeano (1997). “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”, p.261, NYU Press

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• I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Latin, Past, Land

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