Well, by the standards of a lot of countries, by Latin American standards, it wasn't so bad.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
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 is a mistake.
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 under imperialist wings.
I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.
The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
I have a very deep care for Latin America, and, of course, for what was going on in El Salvador.
What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export.
Conflict with the United States is one of the overwhelming facts of Latin American history.
The poorest country in South America, Bolivia, had been devastated by neoliberal economic policies.
Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.