We do tend to reflect American cultural dominance - for understandable reasons - its politics gets massive coverage - in the OT. Apart from the relative neglect of France and Europe, when did you ever see Latin America discussed in the OT - it's quite a big area :-) I did try dragging it in too. If you do look for stories about it, guess what, they mostly have a US link. But then I don't speak Spanish  :-)  

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.