That’s what I meant to say! That’s the ticket. It was on the tip of my tongue.
One need only view the news shows for Univison and see how much bloodier the telecasts are. There is something endemic in the Spanish culture in that hemisphere that rationalizes or accepts this type of warfare.
It is generally agreed that Spanish colonialism correlates with a bloody mess. It is disputed whether this is due to something about the Spanish, or to the pre-colonization circumstances. One could recall the sources of Spanish culture: Goths and North African Moslems.
I blame it on the Spanish being descended from the Visigoths.