He said he was an Argentine journalist who wanted to interview Morini for a well-known magazine with a big circulation, widely read all over Latin America, from Argentina to Mexico.

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Lauren Tilstra, 27, had just read the book on a beach in Latin America, during a break between jobs.

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As emerging nations drag the world economy out of the financial crisis and subsequent recession, companies in these countries are quickly becoming major players in their sectors, pushing advanced Western nations further off the picture. (Read: Forget China, Look to Latin America).

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The French essayist Michel de Montaigne was brought up speaking Latin as his first language and as a boy read Ovid's Metamorphoses for fun.

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He learned Portuguese, Latin and Spain's official language, Castilian, so that he could read geography books and try and map the world.

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