The United States is part of the Americas. But most media (and probably most people) don't think about it in that way. You should.
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Who is Mauricio Macri? What country is currently leading? How did he get there? Who is more of a blatant hateful racist: Macri or Trump?
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There's a gigantic country you may have heard of called Brazil. Who is the president there now? How did he get there? Also: what is a coup?
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Speaking of coups, where is Paraguay? Who is the president there? Why? Also: no, Paraguay is not Uruguay; please learn to read a map.
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Who is Kuczynski? How did he beat the daughter of a killer dictator? And was that a good thing? Is he just as scary or nah?
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Heard of Guatemala? They've a clown for president. Literally. Take you to the forest clown? Or ha ha clown? What difference does it make?
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And then there's Peña Nieto. Is he just magically good because he's Mexican? Or did he steal and election have blood on his hands? *shrugs*
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If newsrooms hired and listened to people who descend from/understand Latin America, we might understand Trump as part of broader wave.
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Instead, we get newsrooms that are more likely to identify with France than Mexico. This is also part of the problem.
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lots of people talking about this as global tendency towards what might be fascism--Brazil, le Pen, death squads in Philippines
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worth noting all the problematic references to "banana republics" by media, dems etc though. Usually denying US authoritarianism
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