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Latin America

a la izquierda

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Reply to Peace Patriot (Reply #2)

Sun May 12, 2013, 11:28 AM

May 2013

I tell my students Latin American history is 500 years of sorrow and triumph. The horrendous is interspersed with the brilliance. But it is hard not to be really, really angry at America...and I was born and raised here.

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