I attended an international school in Venezuela in the 70s and all the Venezuelan kids were always bragging that “there’s no racism here, everyone’s equal”. When it was pointed out to them that it seemed all the high government officials and business owners were light-skinned and of European extraction and all the laborers were dark-skinned and of African/indigenous extraction, the usual response was, “coincidence!”. Hugo Chavez was a response to hundreds of years of light-skin domination. I was stationed in Panama in the late 80s. Ditto Manuel Noriega.
Latinos are as racist toward each other as anybody else.
Let me rephrase: Latinos CAN BE as racist toward each other as anyone else.