Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot

Just as does most of Latin America’s political and intellectual world, the perfect idiot comes from the lower middle class, very often from a rural background and somehow now rendered penniless.

History advanced according to a preordained script (from slavery to feudalism to capitalism and then socialism, the threshold of a truly egalitarian society). Those guilty of our countries’ poverty and backwardness were two disastrous allies: the bourgeoisie and imperialism.