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Latin America
Latin America refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages (mainly Spanish and Portuguese) are the main languages. The region covers an area that stretches from Mexico to Tierra del Fuego and includes much of the Caribbean. Latin American culture is a mixture of many influences, including indigenous, European, African, and Asian. See Latin American Literature
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Pero los descubrimientos necesitan ser traducidos en palabras, a fin de razonar lo que uno siente.
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― El país de Manuelito
― El país de Manuelito
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The most heartening response came not from the book pages in the press
but from real incidents in the streets. The girl who was quietly reading Open
Veins to her companion in a bus in Bogotá, and finally stood up and read it
aloud to all the passengers. The woman who fled from Santiago in the days of
the Chilean bloodbath with this book wrapped inside her baby's diapers. The
student who went from one bookstore to another for a week in Buenos Aires's
Calle Corrientes, reading bits of it in each s
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― Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
― Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
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