Latin American Congress

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    “Not only does the world scarcely know who the Latin American man is, the world has barely cared.”
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    “Such is the labor which the American Congress exists to protect,—honest, manly toil,—honest as the day is long,—that makes his bread taste sweet, and keeps society sweet,—which all men respect and have consecrated; one of the sacred band, doing the needful but irksome drudgery.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)