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I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.
I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.
Approximate author period: c. 1970 AD · modern
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- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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- Approximate author period: c. 1970 AD · modern
Approximate period for recorded attribution label Gabriel Garcia Marquez: recorded author lifetime 1927–2014. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5878 (checked 2026-10-08). The existing author record is gabriel-garcia-marquez; no author identity is bound and no quotation composition date or attribution is independently verified.
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