Latin America and its Intruders
By mookhor
@mookhor (304)
India
October 22, 2008 3:09am CST
I have heard of Latin American people. I have heard that they are as much in love of soccer as in poetry. They are simple and hard-working and hospitable. I want to know more of them as they have a similarity with me, me who belongs to a country that has been ravaged by the intruders time and again and rebuilt too with or without their co-operation. Will anyone tell me which of the European country had devastated the Latin American countries the most and what were the effects ?
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@grandpa_lash (5225)
• Australia
22 Oct 08
Well, if you include the Caribbean, then the Spanish, Portugese, Dutch, British, and French have all had an impact, but I think realistically the Spanish had far and away the greatest impact, destroying whole cultures and extracting great wealth, especially in Central America and large areas of South America. The Portugese run a distant second.
Of course in the current era the US has had the greatest impact by supporting any would-be dictator who was willing to drive out the evil communista, and I'm hard put to balance the immense destruction caused by the Spanish against the immense moral and economic harm done by the Americans.
Lash
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