Best quotes by Stephen Kinzer on America
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‟ Land ownership in Guatemala is more unequal than anywhere else in Latin America. Roughly 90 percent of Guatemalan farms are too small to support a family. A tiny group of Guatemalans owns a third of the country's arable land; more than 300,000 landless peasants must scrounge a living as best they can.
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‟ Prairie grassland once covered much of North America's midsection. European settlers turned nearly all of it into farms and ranches, and today the prairie landscape survives mainly in isolated reserves.
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‟ No offense to Iceland, but Latin America is where the fugitive leaker Edward Snowden should settle.
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‟ Accepting that Arabs have the right to elect their own leaders means accepting the rise of governments that do not share America's pro-Israel militancy.
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‟ As British and French imperialism ebbed following the end of the Second World War, America became the main outside player in Arab affairs.
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‟ During the Cold War, America took sides not only in disputes between Arab countries, but also in debates within them.
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‟ The two largest oil-producing countries in Latin America, Mexico and Venezuela, sold petroleum to Nicaragua at concessional rates for several years beginning in 1980. The program was curtailed because Nicaragua could not make even reduced payments.
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