Etiqueta: Latin

  • If Latin America Had Been a British Enterprise

    Si América Latina hubiese sido una empresa inglesa (Spanish) If Latin America Had Been a British Enterprise Jorge Majfud In the process of conducting a recent study at the University of Georgia, a female student interviewed a young Colombian woman and tape recorded the interview.  The young woman commented on her experience in England and…

  • Why the name of Latin America?

    What does “Latin America” mean? Why the name of Latin America? By Jorge Majfud The essentialist component of the ancestral search for identity as part of nationalistic projects – which kept intellectuals busy for such a long time, being Octavio Paz one of them- has not completely disappeared or has become a commercial relation of…