Back in 2009, the inauguration was a huge deal -- an estimated 1.8 million people packed the National Mall to see America's first African-American president make history.

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But it will come as no surprise who this particular group of people would like to see as America's first real first lady.

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His work for the Latin American section of the World Service, has taken him to many locations in that part of the world, and has given him the opportunity to see first-hand some of the changes happening in Latin America in the last 15 years.

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America's defence secretary was the last foreigner to see Sheikh Issa alive and the first to commiserate with Sheikh Hamad.

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As China first developed its nuclear weapons to counter America's, Indian officials see the arms race as a global affair, not a regional one.

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So far, however, only a dozen companies and organisations have registered with America's Department of Commerce, not least because many firms first want to see whether and how the agreement will be enforced.

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As Dr Levan explained to me from America, where the results are being revealed for the first time, if we could see gamma rays ourselves these events would outshine everything else in the sky.

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However, if America did become a majority of people who considered themselves Latino first, we may well see a country with problems similar to Sunnis and Shias in Iraq, or French Canadians in Canada or the Basque in Spain.

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