American Ideologies American Ideologies To understand everything that happens in Latin America in relation to the United States is to brush aside inconvenient details in favor of a morality play. In Grandin’s scheme, it is Latin America, not the United States, that holds the key to the future of humanity. I feel compelled to pay America, América the highest compliment I can offer: it is a work of literature. Authors as ideologically diverse as Enrique Dussel and Rolena Adorno have made similar claims, as did many of the Latin American jurists who developed much of that legal framework. Yet over and over again, Grandin implies that Latin American reactionaries were not really Latin American, because they had fallen prey to the nefarious influence of the United States.