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... and say it is the vast majority of people in the United States who are not aware of Washington's role in Latin America -- beginning in the 1800s, especially in the 1900s and continuing to today.

Reasons: Most people are not interested in Latin America (it is another dark continent to them) and 2. the U.S. media has always been biased in its reporting about Latin America. So people who are interested usually get a skewed viewpoint, especially from today's corpo-media outlets.

On the other hand, Latin Americans, from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego, are much more aware because their nations have have suffered the consequences of yankee imperialism over the decades.

A starting point for this awareness in the past 60 years may have begun with Arbenz in 1954, the Bay of Pigs, Allende in Chile, the refusal of the United States to invoke the Monroe Doctrine in favor of Argentina during the Malvinas conflict, Reagan's brutal wars in Central America, Plan Colombia, and today the arremetidas against the more radical leftist leaders.

So to answer your question, I think Latin Americans as a whole are NOT naive, especially now with tons of information about Washington's shenanigans readily available from the Internet and other alternative media.

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