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subsequent issues of power and the politics of imperialism. For many
Latin American historians and ideologues, it has been vital to
emphasize the wickedness of the gringos who came to dominate the
Americas. Better, then, to lay the misfortunes of the Amerindian
populations at their door, if only by implication.^23