SANTIAGO – Where do Latin American elites come from? If the magical realist fiction once so popular in the United States and Europe is any guide, they belong to one of the 14 families (yes, that is always the number) that since colonial times have owned all arable land – along with everything else.
圣地亚哥——拉美精英们究竟从何而来？如果从一度在美国和欧洲颇受欢迎的神奇现实主义小说中寻找答案，那么他们来自从殖民时代就拥有全部耕地——和一切财产的14个家族中的一个（没错，精英家族一直就是14个）。