Country Quote by Noam Chomsky

Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence.

— Noam Chomsky

The countries made themselves independent from Spain, but only changed owners, who stayed in positions of power were the criollos, the Spanish descendants who…

— Bocafloja

Latin America is convinced that, starting with South America, our way forward is to consolidate the process of integration: not theoretical integration - the…

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

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

Historically, foreign powers have always been the ones to keep Latin nations divided.

— Evo Morales

The goal of Latin American unity is highly ephemeral. Each country has its own set of goals and very different sets of leaders.

— Riordan Roett

Long live the Unity of Latin America.

— Hugo Chavez

Latin American countries are part of the West and that it is reasonable to expect a certain degree of openness in their societies that…

— Mark Falcoff

Latin America has much richer resources. You'd expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being…

— Noam Chomsky

The idea of self-determination was gradually given credibility by international law, and it lent strong emancipatory support to movements of liberation struggling against a…

— Richard A. Falk

I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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