America Quote by Bianca Jagger

Most governments in the United States in a hundred years have not respected the peoples of Latin America. They have sponsored coup d'etats, assassinations.

— Hugo Chavez

I would say that the U.S. has overlooked Latin America. Their priorities have always been somewhere else. And that is a problem and that…

— Sebastian Pinera

A lot of the countries of Latin America, they may not agree on everything, from how to run your economy to human rights, but…

— Margaret Warner

Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded.

— Evo Morales

Latin Americans glorify their past so ceaselessly that they make it almost impossible to advocate change.

— Óscar Arias

Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because weexist at…

— Rigoberta Menchu

Latin America has not achieved the development that it deserves... I'm not optimistic for all of Latin America, not only for Central America.

— Óscar Arias

They didn't need to be specifically South American or Latin American. Instead we discovered we were talking about human beings in general. We realized…

— Alex Abreu

As an indigenous leader from Bolivia, I know what exclusion looks like. Before 1952, my people were not allowed to even enter the main…

— Evo Morales

If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.

— Jay Griffiths

The provision of basic material needs is not sufficient to make minority groups and indigenous peoples feel they are truly part of the greater…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

The U.S. should not continue to ignore Latin America. Our nation shares regional and cultural ties with these neighboring countries.

— Mercedes Schlapp