Malcolm Coad

Malcolm Coad was until recently the Guardian correspondent for the southern part of Latin America. He is working on a novel about the Pinochet years in Chile.

Letter

Green Go Home

27 August 2009

As Ernesto Priego insists, in Mexico no one would use the word ‘gringo’ to mean anyone other than a US citizen, and a white US citizen at that (Letters, 19 November 2009). This is true for most of the rest of the region, but there are some exceptions. Brazil, Peru and Chile are the ones I know personally, but I’ve heard tell that Honduras (interestingly, given the scabrous history of US activity...

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