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“the Spaniards, who Evo hates so much”

We all notice that south of the Mexican border there are still many really european Spanish people, who are more spanish than the people in Spain today (post the moorish invasions). What are the issues about that? Is evo hating on them, racially? I never hear people talk about these interesting issues in south & central America.

Evo is an indigenous and sees himself as the savior thereof. He really has a thing against Europeans, and Spaniards most of all because of the treatment "his" people received at their hands. He has alienated entire regions of his country where the people are not Indian, but rather european, to the point that they are threatening to separate. His detestation for capitalism stems from his hate of Europeans. He also has an idealized vision of what it was like there before the Spaniards arrived, a vision that overlooks thinks like human sacrifice, famine and wars of aggression among the natives.

I don't know what you are saying about the moorish invasion of Spain, because the Spaniards re-conquered the last moorish outpost in Spain in 1492. There are millions of people with pure or nearly pure Spanish blood in Latin America today, and a lot of the are in Mexico. You rarely see them here because they are not the poorest of the poor and don't, as a rule, immigrate. There are also many Spaniards in Mexico who came to the New World to escape the Spanish Civil War.

One aspect of the Latino problem is the traditional hatred of mestizos (ladinos) for the Indians of the country. This has caused bloodshed that has led to the death of millions over the last five centuries. (And it accounts for Evos’s large chip-on-the-shoulder.)

In fact, there is only a very small stratum of European-Latinos in most Latin nations; perhaps the largest being the Italian colony in Argentina. In their case, the recent migration of Italians leaving Argentina and returning to Italy greatly outnumbers the Italians foolish enough to immigrate to Argentina.