Latin America is also characterized by globalization: economic, technological and political. Not military dictators further represented the continent but – a transition – more social democratically oriented politicians, some of whom took Indian postures. Alejandro Toledo, who had grown up in an Indian family, was in 2001 sworn in as President of Peru at Machu…
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INDIAN LANGUAGE AND WRITING
The first Spaniards in America tried to talk to the natives with gestures, and this could lead to misunderstandings. Of the more quirky from Andes I can mention that a Spaniard asked: ¿Cómo te llama? Meaning what is it called? And pointing to the animal. The Indian caught the last word of the question ¿llama?…