Latin America’s Long Fight Against the US for Sovereignty

Latin America’s Long Fight Against the US for Sovereignty

By John Perry – May 13, 2025 John Perry reviews the book AMERICA, AMÉRICA: A New History of the New World, by Greg Grandin. “An American team will win the next soccer World Cup,” a Nicaraguan boy once told me. It took me a second to realize he meant Brazil or Argentina, not the United States. Greg Grandin’s new book shows that “America” (or, in Spanish, América) was the name used for the whole hemisphere by the late 17th century. In the 18th, th…