Shedding Light On Common Latin American Misconceptions

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 4:22 AM CDT Shedding Light On Common Latin American Misconceptions By Peter Murphy Lewis I do not intend to insult anybody’s intelligence, but Latin America is not Mexico. Mexico might be part of Latin America, but neither can be defined by the other.Before diving into specifics, it is worthwhile to elaborate a bit more on this concept of “Latin America.” We oversimplify all the sub-regions – Caribbean, Central America, Andean states, Southern Cone, etc – when we define them as Latin America, as if there were just one nation or many nations under one unifying culture.Previously ... Leer más