Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Americans are awaking to the fact that Colombia is not Uruguay and that Mexico has more to offer than enchiladas. The Latin American sections in U.S. bookstores are becoming more well-stocked, and films from our southern neighbors are receiving highly favorable reviews. And though the establishment press maintains its customary lethargy in covering Latin American news, a steady stream of material written by less traditional journalists is finding its way into magazines and journals...
Much of the increasing attention paid to america latino stems, no doubt, from the experiment in democratic socialism conducted in Chile by President Salvador Allende. But interest runs much deeper than that as more and more people are studying Spanish and general Latin American history. A new generation of American wanderers, turning to the south to expend their wanderlust in place of the traditional Europe, travel not only to Santiago but also to Quito and Lima, to the Brazilian northwest and the Andean highlands. American students talk not only of Allende but also of Peron and Echevarria...
...students of history, political science, sociology and economics, Latin America is appealing as a new testing ground for ideas and theories, hopes and aspirations that remain decaying on bookshelves in the Western world. After the accumulation of fact and the compilation of interpretation, students search for a future to be shaped. But in the Old World, history has ossified like the concrete highways that crisscross Europe...
...most cities in Latin America, a drive the commuter makes from his office in Boston to his home in Newton would pass through neighborhoods separated not by miles but by centuries. In the distance one walks to get from the McDonald's in Central Square to the Brigham's in Harvard Square, a Bolivian could walk from the luxury hotels of downtown LaPaz to the adobe huts of Aymara Indians who chew cocoa leaves and eat dried potatoes like their ancestors did hundreds of years ago. Ill-clad Indian children sell two joints of marijuana for ten cents behind...
...farmers of Yorkshire forced off their lands by acquisitive members of the gentry are resurrected in the masses of unemployed who have recently arrived from large haciendas or plantations. The shameful slums of the new industrial towns of London are repeated in the festering sewers of the streets of Latin American slums...