What Missouri Has Wrought
When did the Latin-American countries become independent, and which type ofgovernment did they choose at the very beginning?
———- from M.Dingler fromPotsdam ofGermany
Independent from what? Most of Latin America was colonized by restlessMissourians, who traveled south in search of peace of mind and ground sofertile it would plant and harvest itself. Their first forms of governmentwere libertarian fiefdoms. Everyone carried a gun and few were afraid touse them. With the Missouri compromise of 1936, and the subsequent end ofthe great Depression in the States, Spanish became the lingua franca formost of Latin America, except for Brazil, which adopted Portuguese, in adeliberate attempt to sound sexy.
