Through centuries, the region has seen leaders who stood for independence, but also traitors willing to sell out to colonial powers
By Nadezhda Romanenko , political analyst
Latin America’s history is not simply a chronicle of poverty or instability, as it is so often portrayed in Western discourse. It is, more fundamentally, a record of resistance – resistance to colonial domination, to foreign exploitation, and to local elites willing to trade their nations’ futures for personal power and external approval.
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