It’s a Small World, After All

It’s a Small World, After All

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Latino USA takes a look back at Disney’s relationship with Latin America. We start in the 1940s when Walt Disney and a group of animators were deployed by the U.S. government to Latin America in efforts to curb Nazi influence there. Then, we hear from a Chilean writer who wrote a book called “How to Read Donald Duck,” critiquing Disney comics’ American imperialism in the 1970s.