Quotes About Latin America

I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms.

Conflict with the United States is one of the overwhelming facts of Latin American history.

Almost 85 percent of the Latin American market is subject to net neutrality rules, and the European Parliament already favors strong ones.

The AIFLD's fingerprints were later found on a number of U.S. covert incursions in Latin America—including the toppling in 1954 of the labor-supported Guatemalan government of Jacobo Arbenz, whose land reforms were opposed by the United Fruit Company, the CIA, and the AFL-CIO.

I am honored to serve on the Board of Visitors for Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. Being the first board member from Latin America, I hope to provide insight into the economical, social and political issues facing the region, and continue to grow and strengthen this prestigious institution.

I do feel that I have to use my voice for those that don't have one. I have to do the best I can in my own work to represent my culture, represent the women of my country, of Latin America. What we stand for. What we're made of.

Yes, Latinos dream more. When you live in poverty, when your president is imposed upon you, when they kill someone and no one gets indicted, and when only a few get rich, of course you dream more. It's no coincidence that magic realism happens in Latin America, because for us dreams and aspirations are part of life.

If you go around Colombia or Latin America, without doubt you will find that 80 per cent of the time, you're discussing the past and only 20 per cent about the future.

Ninguna revolución ha logrado traer prosperidad a América Latina. Sólo ha traído corrupción (la revolución ha derivado en robolución), dictadura y privilegios para la casta gobernante a expensas del grueso de la población sumergida en la pobreza. Nuestras revoluciones no han producido otra cosa que miseria moral, política, económica y cultural.

Pese a que en los estratos medios y altos hay los ingredientes culturales capaces de ver con toda lucidez las calamidades que produce el populismo, los sectores marginales de la sociedad, que en América Latina son mayoritarios, permanecen —gracias a las continuas prebendas que reciben— fieles a quienes dicen que ejercen el poder en su nombre y en contra de los privilegiados.

We Cubans are voting for our new constitution, we're voting for Latin America and the Caribbean. We're also voting for Venezuela, we're defending Venezuela because in Venezuela the continent's dignity is in play.

Reagan's regime was one of murder, brutality, and violence, which devastated a number of countries and probably left two hundred thousand people dead in Latin America, with hundreds of thousand of orphans and widows.

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

Perhaps no country in Latin America is more picturesque than Bolivia, and the most memorable Bolivian city may be Potosi.

The Mexican debt crisis, Latin American debt crisis, the crises of the 1990s, the Wall Street stock market crash, and other events should have reminded us, and did remind us, that financial instability remains a concern, remains a problem.

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.

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

I was born with a beard. We're quite hairy down in Latin America. We don't have to use sponges when we wash dishes. We just use our baby beards.

In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.

In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart.

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Latin America moved decisively away from military rule and toward civilian democracy.

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

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

East Asia's share of global exports went from 12 percent in 1960 to 31 percent by 2011. The same number in Latin America over the same period declined from 7 percent to 6 percent