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Europe would be well advised to pay more attention to Latin America. The emerging economies are the engines of the global economy. Colombia has done too little to improve its reputation in Europe.
Juan Manuel Santos
/
President Of Colombia
America
Colombia
Emerging
Engines
Europe
Global Economy
Latin
Latin America
Reputation
Advised
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Latin America seemed to be a land where there were only dictators, revolutionaries, catastrophes. Now we know that Latin America can produce also artists, musicians, painters, thinkers, and novelists.
Mario Vargas Llosa
/
Writer
Latin
Latin America
Novelists
Dictators
Revolutionaries
Painters
Thinkers
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The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret. Every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth.
Eduardo Galeano
/
Journalist
Accustomed
Bombs
Hiroshima
Latin
Latin America
Teeth
Communities
Explode
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All through Latin America, there's sharp condemnation of the criminal atrocities of Sept. 11. But it's qualified by the observation that although these are horrible atrocities, they are not unfamiliar.
Noam Chomsky
/
Linguist
Atrocities
Condemnation
Horrible
Latin
Latin America
Observation
Qualified
Unfamiliar
Criminal
Sept
Sharp
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In Latin America, many people live with outstretched hands. Throughout the hemisphere, paternalistic governments accustom people to receiving just enough to survive instead of participating in society.
Denise Dresser
/
Accustomed
Hemisphere
Latin
Latin America
Participating
Receiving
Governments
To Survive
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Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists between women and men in these communities is holding back progress.
Dionne Warwick
/
Singer
Asia
Hungry
Inequality
Latin
Latin America
Majority
South Asia
Men Women Progress
Africa
Communities
Exists
Women Men Progress
Holding
Rural
Women And Men
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Vancouver is more laid-back, pretty much what you would expect from a West Coast city. Miami is definitely livelier - the nightlife, the people, everything. It's basically a little slice of Latin America.
Camila Mendes
/
Latin
Latin America
Miami
Nightlife
Vancouver
West Coast
Slice
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The circus is a global theme. It exists in all parts of the world - maybe not in Africa, but it exists in Asia in all parts. In Latin America, it's difficult to find a person who hasn't gone to the circus.
Fernando Botero
/
Artist
Asia
Circus
Latin
Latin America
Theme
Africa
Exists
Global
Parts
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Slice Mango - something that, you know, is a phenomenal drink, but mango is not a flavour that is easily liked by many people in the West. People in Latin America like it. But we do a lot of Mango in India.
Indra Nooyi
/
Business Person
Drink
India
Latin
Latin America
Phenomenal
West
People America Know
People Know America
Easily
Liked
Slice
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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.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
/
Novelist
Alone
Break
Break Through
Latin
Latin America
Outsiders
Reality
Centuries
Cliches
Fought
Problems
Superpowers
Ways
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We all have that capacity to lose our humanity when circumstances force us to do so. It's not specific to people who live in Africa or Latin America or Asia. And equally, we are capable of regaining ourselves.
Ishmael Beah
/
Soldier
Asia
Capable
Circumstances
Force
Humanity
Latin
Latin America
Africa
Equally
Specific
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Many African smallholder farmers did not share in the 'green revolution' productivity gains driven by modern seeds and techniques, irrigation, and greater fertilizer use in Asia and Latin America in the 1960s.
Arancha Gonzalez
/
Asia
Driven
Farmers
Fertilizer
Gains
Irrigation
Latin
Latin America
Productivity
Revolution
Seeds
African
Techniques
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We think, fundamentally, that the future story of Latin America, not only of Mexico but for all of Latin America, will be constructed from the bottom - that the rest of what's happening, in any case, are steps.
Subcomandante Marcos
/
Spokesman
Bottom
Latin
Latin America
Mexico
Steps
Case
Constructed
Fundamentally
Happening
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Latin American Art is an operational term used to describe art actually made in the more than twenty countries that make up Latin America and that encompass Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean.
Mari Carmen Ramirez
/
Caribbean
Latin
Latin America
Mexico
South America
Term
Central
Describe
Encompass
Make Up
Operational
Twenty
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As I spent tons of time with customers, not just in the United States, but in emerging markets, in Europe, in Latin America, top of mind for everybody is how do they drive growth for their business going forward.
Satya Nadella
/
Executive
Emerging
Growth
Latin
Latin America
Time Business Growth
Tons
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The Left, however, resists anglicizing Spanish terms because its political agenda relies on encouraging illegal immigration from Latin America and discouraging the assimilation of Hispanics into American society.
Michael J. Knowles
/
Encouraging
American Society
Assimilation
Discouraging
Illegal
Illegal Immigration
Immigration
Latin
Latin America
Agenda
Hispanics
Political Agenda
Spanish
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The peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have common interest and are in the position to support each other in their anti-imperialist and anti-U.S. struggle. As long as Africa and Latin America are not free.
Kim Il-Sung
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Former President Of North Korea
America
Asia
Common
Latin
Latin America
Position
Struggle
Support
Africa
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Politicians of both parties told us that free trade with Asia and Latin America would spur economic growth, and maybe it did somewhere else. In our towns, though, factories continue shutting down or moving overseas.
J. D. Vance
/
Asia
Economic Growth
Factories
Free Trade
Latin
Latin America
Somewhere Else
Towns
Both Parties
Shutting
Spur
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The Internet Governance Forum - which brings together NGOs, government officials and companies - needs to do a better job of including representatives from Africa, Latin America, and Asia and addressing their issues.
Ory Okolloh
/
Asia
Governance
Latin
Latin America
Officials
Representatives
Addressing
Better Job
Forum
Ngos
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The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
/
Novelist
Country
Differences
Europe
Latin
Latin America
Perspective
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
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One-third of all professional baseball players come from Latin America, and Sosa is following role models such as the late Roberto Clemente, a Puerto Rican, from whom he adopted the No. 21. Now he is a model for others.
Bill Dedman
/
Journalist
Adopted
Following
Latin
Latin America
Models
Role Models
Baseball Players
One-Third
Professional Baseball
Puerto
Puerto Rican
Rican
Roberto
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I started with theater when I was 9 years old and then got into television when I was 16, but I would say my first big break was 'Lady, La Vendedora de Rosas', a telenovela that was very successful all across Latin America.
Natalia Reyes
/
Latin America
Big Break
La
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I'm a writer. In Latin America, they say I'm a Latin-American writer because I also write in Spanish and my books are translated, but I am an American citizen and my books are published here, so I'm also an American writer.
Isabel Allende
/
Writer
Latin
Latin America
Writer
American Citizen
Books
Citizen
Published
Spanish
They Say
Translated
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I'd love to do some collabs or music with Latin artists and in Latin America - we're working on it! I just really love Latin America and the language, culture, foods, people, and it's a place I grew up visiting pretty often.
Eric Nam
/
Latin
Latin America
Visiting
Love Music Culture
Artists
Foods
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Immigrants and refugees who have escaped the corrupt, dysfunctional, crime-ridden, socialist and communist regimes of Latin America are precisely the kind of hard-working and grateful people we should be welcoming to the U.S.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
/
Communist
Grateful
Immigrants
Latin
Latin America
Socialist
People America Who
Corrupt
Dysfunctional
Escaped
Hard-Working
Precisely
Refugees
Welcoming
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I do feel that I have to use my voice for those that don't have one. I have to do the best I can in my own work to represent my culture, represent the women of my country, of Latin America. What we stand for. What we're made of.
Shakira
/
Singer-Songwriter
Latin
Latin America
My Own
Voice
Stand
Best Work Women
Represent
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I think the best thing I can say about it - and I think the best thing you can say about anything, really - is that 'The Motorcycle Diaries' made me feel like my home was bigger; it made me feel at home anywhere in Latin America.
Gael Garcia Bernal
/
Film Actor
Bigger
Diaries
Latin
Latin America
Motorcycle
Best Home Me
Anywhere
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The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives.
Henry A. Wallace
/
Former Vice President Of The United States
America
Country
Fascists
Goods
Imperialism
Latin
Latin America
Reason
Speak
Wages
People Will Way
People Way America
Act
Buy
Countries
Natives
Yankee
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Latin America is not that different from the rest of the world. Some of us have been trying to get from the edges into the centre, but we're very few. The world is still very resistant to understanding the diversity of human beings.
Daniela Vega
/
Centre
Edges
Latin
Latin America
Resistant
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When the U.K. or U.S. government issues bonds to fund a deficit, the buyers are not solely in the U.K. or the U.S. - they're in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. Investment banks provide direct access to these buyers.
Bob Diamond
/
Access
Asia
Buyers
Deficit
Direct
East
Fund
Investment
Latin
Latin America
Middle East
Banks
Bonds
Solely
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In the United States, the government is bailing out banks, intervening in the economy, yet in Latin America, the Right continues to talk about 'free markets.' It's totally outdated; they don't have arguments; they don't have any sense.
Hugo Chavez
/
Former President Of Venezuela
Government
America
Economy
Intervening
Latin
Latin America
Outdated
Totally
Bailing
Banks
Free Markets
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In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an increasing disillusionment about democracy and a lack of faith in democratic institutions.
Noam Chomsky
/
Linguist
Democracy
Democratic
Disillusionment
Formal
Latin
Latin America
Polling
Specialists
Accompanied
Observed
Extension
Increasing
Organisations
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Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.
Gael Garcia Bernal
/
Film Actor
Believe
Latin
Latin America
Mean
Waste
Films
Least
Pays
Rent
Waste Of Time
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Beyond the U.S. and E.U., Britain should deepen ties with the Commonwealth and the rising powers of Asia and Latin America - calibrated to our national interest in promoting the global goods of free trade, democracy, and basic human rights.
Dominic Raab
/
Politician
Asia
Basic Human Rights
Commonwealth
Free Trade
Goods
Human Rights
Latin
Latin America
Ties
Deepen
National Interest
Powers
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In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.
Gael Garcia Bernal
/
Film Actor
America
Latin
Latin America
Limitation
Speak English
Favor
Wanting
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Any negotiated, peaceful solution to the problems between the United States and peoples, or any people of Latin America, which does not imply force or the use of force, must be addressed in accordance with international principles and norms.
Fidel Castro
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Former Prime Minister Of Cuba
Latin
Latin America
Peaceful
Principles
Accordance
Imply
Norms
Solution
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Our challenge in this regard will be to broaden the scope of our federal funds in terms of international diplomacy, development aid, and international assistance. Many Latinos in the United States look at Latin America and see trouble brewing.
Bob Menendez
/
United States Senator
Assistance
Development
Diplomacy
International
Latin
Latin America
Regard
Scope
Aid
Broaden
Funds
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We'll have, by the end of 2013, 30 local language editions of Forbes, many of those are pioneers in the markets they serve with Forbes.com. We launched recently in Thailand and Vietnam, and we're in China and Korea and all around Latin America.
Michael Perlis
/
Forbes
Latin
Latin America
Pioneers
Thailand
Vietnam
Local
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Juanes is one of the legendary, iconic Colombian artists. Growing up in Colombia, you can't really not have him on your radar. His songs are everywhere, and there's a statue of him. He's pretty big for Latin America, and for Colombia especially.
Kali Uchis
/
Colombia
Iconic
Latin
Latin America
Legendary
Radar
Everywhere
Statue
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Just as it is important in Latin America to discuss ideas that come from North America, I think it is interesting for North Americans to discuss ideas that come from Latin America or Africa and do not insert themselves into capitalist interests.
Paulo Freire
/
Educator
Capitalist
Ideas
Insert
Latin
Latin America
North America
Thinking
Africa
Discuss
North
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I don't see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not affect the industrial countries alone, it will also hit poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Who will look after them?
Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani
/
Former Emir Of Qatar
Asia
Latin
Latin America
Oil
Opec
Poor Countries
Affect
Africa
Hit
Countries
Cut
Industrial
Production
Price
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The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist.
Danny Glover
/
Actor
Celebrate
Free Trade
Latin
Latin America
Moments
Occupation
Resistance
Trade Agreements
Agreements
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The two largest oil-producing countries in Latin America, Mexico and Venezuela, sold petroleum to Nicaragua at concessional rates for several years beginning in 1980. The program was curtailed because Nicaragua could not make even reduced payments.
Stephen Kinzer
/
Author
Latin America
Mexico
Nicaragua
Petroleum
Program
Venezuela
Beginning
Countries
Largest
Payments
Rates
Reduced
Several
Sold
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Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That's why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.
Barack Obama
/
44Th U.s. President
Commerce
Cuba
Diplomatic
Diplomatic Relations
Fifty
Latin
Latin America
Setting
Failed
Opened
Promote
Relations
Restored
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I can tell you there will be a performance centre in India. There will be a performance centre in the Middle East. There will, more than likely, be a performance centre in Latin America. We will be replicating this process around the globe, all over.
Triple H
/
Business Professional
Centre
Latin
Latin America
Middle East
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The revolutions of my century, the 20th century - the Soviet revolution, or the Chinese, or the revolutions that were fomented in Latin America, such as in Cuba - failed for the most part, a failure which was completely clear by the end of the century.
Stephane Hessel
/
Writer
Failure
Chinese
Clear
Cuba
Latin
Latin America
Revolution
Soviet
Revolutions
Failed
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My grandmother and my mom and my aunt Aurelia, my grandmother Juanita, my mom Lucia - we lived on the outskirts of a barrio in Mexico City called Tepito, and Tepito for many, many decades was the largest barrio in Mexico and perhaps even Latin America.
Juan Felipe Herrera
/
Poet
Aunt
Decades
Latin America
Mexico
Mexico City
Largest
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The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.
Noam Chomsky
/
Linguist
Chance
America
Former
Intervention
Islands
Latin
Latin America
Luxury
Misery
Particular
Sea
Subjugation
Survived
Violence
Overcome
Before
Better Chance
Centuries
Colonies
Ever
Far
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I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.
Eduardo Galeano
/
Journalist
America
Blind
Deaf
Frontiers
Ignorance
Latin
Latin America
Population
Time World I Am
Almost Nothing
Astonished
Each Time
High Percentage
Percentage
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Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean share a cultural heritage based on centuries of common history. And what is more, we share the same values and world view. We believe in a world order that is based on cooperation, on regionalism, on multilateralism.
Federica Mogherini
/
Caribbean
Cooperation
Heritage
Latin
Latin America
World Order
History Believe World
Centuries
Cultural
History World Believe
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