#latin america

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present. ↗

— Walter Salles

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We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred territory. I would not have ventured into it by myself. ↗

— Walter Salles

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I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms. ↗

— Stephen Stills

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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

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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

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While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty. ↗

— Tran Duc Luong

#africa #america #ample #asia #being

Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

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When my mother was born on 14 April, he named her after a Latin American holiday, the Day of Americas, that nobody knew about. My due date also happened to be 14 April. ↗

— America Ferrera

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Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel. ↗

— David Wilkerson

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In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

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