Well, the conquistadors were pretty cool, then there was Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, then you had the Brits kicking the shit out of Argentina in the Falklands.
That's pretty much it for Latin America.
You know, when I was in college getting a degree in British history (British, because I'd already gotten all the American history through credit-by-examination), near the end of my education, it was pointed out I needed to "balance" my history, as there was too much "white man's" history in it.
I argued that I'd taken African history, southern Asian history, and Near Eastern history, which were hardly "white man's" history. The adviser told me yeah, true, but I'd taken them from the perspective of how they related to British history, which excluded any eras outside of when the British benevolently ran these places, trying to civilize them.
So.....I had to take three courses in Latin American history. I took one on Brazil, one on the three Guianas (British, Dutch, and French), and one on Paraguay.
The one on Paraguay was a drag; it was taught by a professor visiting from a South American university, a fine dapper dark little fellow, impeccable dresser, nice mustache, easy-to-understand body language, corsage in lapel.
The entire semester, all he ever did was describe the love-lives of the various dictators of Paraguay, and the final examination was one single essay one had to write, about the influence of mistresses and whores.
There must've been a cultural conflict here, about what's important in history, and what's not.
