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Article: South of the border. (U.S. relations with Central America)
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- National Review
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- October 9, 1987
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SOUTH OF THE BORDER
ONE PROBLEM North Americans have in dealing with their neighbors to the south is grasping how very different the countries of Latin America are from the North, and also how diverse these countries are within themselves. To start with, we must bear in mind that the major civilizations of the Western Hemisphere sprang from two very different cultural strains, the British and the Iberian. (The Virgin Queen, after all, did not have very much in common with Philip II, any more than John Stuart Mill did with Juan Donoso Cortes, or Thomas Gainsborough with Francisco Goya.) And in Latin America a third strain complicates the situation even further: ...