Latin America Quotes
Collection of top 81 famous quotes about Latin America
Latin America Quotes & Sayings
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Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.
— Edward Abbey
The United States is using its war on drugs as an excuse to expand its control over Latin America.
— Evo Morales
We give more economic aid to multinational corporations to increase their profits than we do to all the countries in the world combined.
— Michael Hogan
There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
— Walter Salles
The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.
— Mario Benedetti
When I was very young I was reading a lot of Latin American fiction, which later would be called "boom fiction."
— Sandra Cisneros
I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
— Daniel Alarcon
While guidebooks might tell you that time collapsed here, another theory says that in Latin America, all of history coexists at once.
— Brin-Jonathan Butler
Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
— Noam Chomsky
The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
— Carlos Fuentes
Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I want to thank my fans for their support and love all these years, thank you Miami. Thank you Latin America. Thank you Mexico. Thank you world !
— Enrique Iglesias
I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America.
— Rebecca Solnit
Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.
— Noam Chomsky
I have a very deep care for Latin America, and, of course, for what was going on in El Salvador.
— Raul Julia
I would say that the U.S. has overlooked Latin America. Their priorities have always been somewhere else. And that is a problem and that is a mistake.
— Sebastian Pinera
Science has eliminated distance.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It is easier to start a war than to end it.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The people of the United States will do anything for Latin America, except read about it.
— James Barrett Reston
The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America.
— Henry A. Wallace
My sister, she's amazing. She sort of inspired me to take this journey to Latin America.
— Jenna Bush
The Spaniards owned the cow, but others drank the milk.
— Eduardo Galeano
Latin America is part of the world which was for many years condemned to the system of power where intimidation had more strength than the vote.
— Eduardo Galeano
I am so proud of my heritage and of being Latina. I would most definitely consider roles in Latin America.
— Chrissie Fit
No offense to Iceland, but Latin America is where the fugitive leaker Edward Snowden should settle.
— Stephen Kinzer
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
Capitalism has only hurt Latin America.
— Evo Morales
I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century.
— Sebastian Arcelus
At Sequoia, we have opened offices in China and India, and we have made a handful of investments in Latin America/Brazil.
— Roelof Botha
The workforce in Latin America was treated as a vulgar instrument for capital accumulation.
— Rafael Correa
So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.
— Ruben Blades
Is everything forbidden us except to fold our arms? Poverty is not written in the stars; under development is not one of God's mysterious designs.
— Eduardo Galeano
Whatever Latin America sells - raw materials or manufactures - its chief export product is really cheap labor.
— Eduardo Galeano
![Latin America Quotes By Andre Vltchek: Comrade [Rafael] Correa gets it right, most of](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/latin-america-quotes-by-andre-vltchek-1705618.jpg "Latin America Quotes By Andre Vltchek: Comrade [Rafael] Correa gets it right, most of")
Comrade [Rafael] Correa gets it right, most of the time. This is new, 'final' offensive of the Empire in Latin America.
— Andre Vltchek
A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.
— Maynard James Keenan
Am I Latin? Am I American? What the hell am I? I love my culture and I'm very proud of my culture.
— America Ferrera
Anyone who pretends to "understand" Latin America is a fool.
— Michael Hogan
Mexico is becoming the northern part of Latin America, not the U.S.A.'s southern outpost.
— Jeremy Corbyn
The scholarship on music and poetry in Mexico - and Latin America more generally - has yet to receive substantial historical attention.
— Stephen Neufeld
I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.
— Bianca Jagger
I wanted to take part in the liberation of even a small piece of enslaved Latin America.
— Che Guevara
In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
— Carlos Fuentes
Perhaps no country in Latin America is more picturesque than Bolivia, and the most memorable Bolivian city may be Potosi.
— Nicholas Kristof
It would be very ungrateful of me to turn my back or stop doing work in Latin America.
— Jaime Camil
Fortunately, war in Latin America is usually waged only with words. The tongue is our most dangerous weapon. We talk too much!
— Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva
Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence.
— Noam Chomsky
Before I started Coffee of Grace, I assumed all coffee came from Latin America or Indonesia. I wasn't familiar with African coffee.
— Grace Hightower
Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin.
— Eduardo Galeano
Long live the Unity of Latin America.
— Hugo Chavez
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Latin America moved decisively away from military rule and toward civilian democracy.
— Stephen Kinzer
The total economy of Latin America is bigger than China.
— William Hague
Free trade, far from protectionism, is the path that we should take to make Latin America a thriving actor in the global economy.
— Enrique Pena Nieto
It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here.
— Ruben Blades
I spent my whole life as a writer talking to just the average guy in Los Angeles and Latin America, talking to working people.
— Hector Tobar
I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
— Ahmed Ben Bella
I love the Latin neighborhoods in Los Angeles. It's like traveling all over Latin America without ever leaving LA.
— Mauricio Cienfuegos
My whole life, I grew up with this double vision, this vision of America but also Latin community.
— Prince Royce
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
— Fidel Castro
Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.
— Bianca Jagger
In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.
— Gael Garcia Bernal
In Latin America, women are supposed to be voluptuous. They don't believe that you have to be skinny to be attractive.
— Sofia Vergara
In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart.
— Pope Benedict XVI
No child should be left behind - I've heard this from President Obama. And here, we say in Latin America, no country should be left behind.
— Sebastian Pinera
With 'Timbiriche', I toured Brazil and a lot of Latin America.
— Paulina Rubio
