Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.

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.

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.

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.

Long live the Unity of Latin America.