Latin america Quote by Thomas C. Foster

““So how do we get from there to a pattern of experience that can stand for the whole of postcolonial Latin America? Ah, our para dox again. The solution, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars but in ourselves.””

Thomas C. Foster

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