Latin American Quotes

• 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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• 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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• Revolutions are not exportable: revolutions are created by oppressive conditions which Latin American countries exercise against their peoples.

  Che Guevara

  Country, Latin, Exercise

  Source: guevaristas.org

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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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• Brazil is one of the biggest Latin American countries, the biggest, no doubt, and, more importantly, it is a country with immense development potential.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Latin, Doubt

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• Latin Americans have gotten tired of the Washington consensus - a neoliberalism that has aggravated misery and poverty.

  Hugo Chavez

  Latin, Tired, Neoliberalism

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

  Manuel Puig

  Country, Latin, Usa

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• With what moral authority can they speak of human rights - the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar coexist; the Indian is exterminated; the black man is discriminated against; the woman is prostituted; and the great masses of Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Latin Americans are scorned, exploited, and humiliated? How can they do this - the bosses of an empire where the mafia, gambling, and child prostitution are imposed; where the CIA organizes plans of global subversion and espionage, and the Pentagon creates neutron bombs capable of preserving material assets and wiping out human beings.

  Fidel Castro

  Latin, War, Men

  Fidel Castro's speech on the 25th anniversary of the Moncada Barracks attack, July 26, 1978.

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• We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.

  Fidel Castro

  Latin, Afros, Nations

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• For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Latin, Years

  "Noam Chomsky on Venezuela - the transcript". Interview with Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2011.

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• The European powers had been anxious to see the United States become embroiled in a civil war and eventually break into two smaller and weaker nations. That would pave the way for their further colonization of Latin American without fear of the Americans being able to enforce the Monroe Doctrine.

  G. Edward Griffin

  War, Latin, Two

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• Latin American countries are part of the West and that it is reasonable to expect a certain degree of openness in their societies that we do not demand of, say, China or Vietnam.

  Mark Falcoff

  Country, Latin, Degrees

  "Post-Fidel Plans for U.S.-Cuba Relations, Migration Policy". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. August 2, 2007.

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• Don't Latin Americans have the right to ask why their elected governments are being opposed and coup leaders supported?.. Poverty and hardship in large parts of Africa are preventing this from happening. Don't they have the right to ask why their enormous wealth - including minerals - is being looted, despite the fact that they need it more than others?

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Latin, Government, Leader

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's letter to George W. Bush, www.washingtonpost.com. May 9, 2006.

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• I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Latin, Writing, Thinking

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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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• 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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• No, I had no problem communicating with Latin American heads of state - though now I do wish I had paid more attention to Latin when I was in high school.

  Dan Quayle

  Latin, School, Wish

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• To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.

  Billie Burke

  Latin, Ambition, Ego

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

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• The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Country, Latin, Europe

  Interview with Marlise Simons, archive.nytimes.com. December 5, 1982.

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• Our chemical and other manufacturing concerns are all too often ready to let the Germans have Latin American markets, provided the American companies can work out an arrangement which will enable them to charge high prices to the consumer inside the United States.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Latin, Work Out, United States

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• When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.

  Alvaro Uribe

  War, Latin, Dictator

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• Help does not mean to intervene. I will not meddle if I am not invited to do so. But if I can serve as a go-between with my experience, I will support the government's call for dialogue with the rebel forces who also have their problems, who also have their fears. I think all us Latin Americans have to help.

  Jose Mujica

  Powerful, Latin, Humble

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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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• We are developing in the United States a huge underclass of unwanted people, many of them the descendants of the exploitation of the South American and Latin American countries by American piratical capitalism. Not all capitalism is piratical, but some of it certainly is. And we have a fantastic gap beginning to exist between rich and poor.

  Benedict Groeschel

  Country, Latin, People

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• 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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