“ Does it really matter that the American and European intelligentsia quench their thirst for the exotic by promoting Latin American Idiots? The unequivocal answer is yes. A cultural struggle is under way in Latin America—between those who want to place the region in the global firmament and see it emerge as a major contributor to the Western culture to which its destiny has been attached for five centuries, and those who cannot reconcile themselves to the idea and resist it.
— The Return of the Idiot
By Alvaro Vargas Llosahttp://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3805&page=2
By Alvaro Vargas Llosahttp://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3805&page=2
