Let me recognize that the US since Bush father has improved great miles in the treatment towards SouthAmerica and central America. It is not perfect but at least it is well within the borders of what an empire is suppose to do... Death squads and right-wing dictatures killing people are  no longer directly supported.

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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude