¿Does it exist something like a Latin American Rhetoric?

Hinting (Kicking) of this issue, Rhetoric, it seemed to me US speakers are better well-known as Latin-Americans. Millions of people stared at in front of a TV device to listen their words, not many US citizens would wait to listen what an African president would have to say, not matter if he is a dictator putting world feet up. That might be the reason for not many Latin people stand up to speak. Consequently, you put me nervous. 

¿Does it exist something like a Latin-American Rhetoric?

Not many people at Bogotá nowadays, do cultivate rhetoric, but it’s very popular to include people’s thinking in songs, we do really prefer the singing voices as a way of being influential moving masses. This comes from Catholic medieval ritual experience and its pedagogical purpose. Think of a Baptiste church and you can catch Latins' feelings. To make you figure out, popular Mexican character “Cantinflas” floppy all discourses and seems contradictory he can communicate, he is too influent, even today. All Latins relate to "Cantinflas" because,  thou inequity, we are convoked to laugh as a preventing measure. Then, breaking through the corner, you always can find an old radio replying old singer "Paquita la del barrio", she represents women attacking men through really rush words, the means of this is a way of equilibrating forces due extended domestic violence in our popular families. So she goes like (a phrase from her lyrics translated): "two-legged rat, creeping animal", then let`s go friends to next match. I`d like to mention Rigoberta Menchu, a too bright indigenous lawyer, nowadays she has been convoking Latin-American women get back to school to be lawyers as an example of this popular way of being rhetoric.  Their intonation, the way they emphasize  convictions, the way they represent our contra-cultural movements, are  arguments make me “retrouve” them as speakers. I gathered my questions, I went further, and I found a couple meaningful Latin-American speeches at You Tube. First of all, Fidel Castro`s Speech at UN after winning Cuban Revolution on January, 1959. It is a four hour turning point speech about cold war. Then, an elder one, this is not properly an Latin speaker, but we recognize this north-south path as important in Latin development of its culture and speech, this is well known President Roosevelt`s I took Panama. It should be organized first this one, then Castro`s, from a historical timeline, thou Castro is a main reference for our modern speech, as I said, we don´t have too many speakers, or opportunities to give a whole world outstanding speech, about any topic world would be interested at. Most of Latin-American Speeches have to do with relationships between USA and the rest of continent. Then, we have speeches related to nature, environment, that`s the one proposed by Chile`s President Pepe Mujica signing agreements about sustainable development at UN. Speech turns about happiness, as a topic, and it`s near in spirit to Seattle Chief letter to American president at the end of 19th century. As you notice is important indigenous ancestors' concepts for Latin’s daily life. Then, I found some commemorative ones, 500 years celebration of America`s discovery, and 200 years of Independence bicentennial. I think we still need to study a lot more about Latin-American rhetoric, this is not an exhaustive review, but first step to follow traces and tendencies in Latin-American’s discourses, so we can finally point out existence of Gabriel García Márquez's speech “Damocles’ cataclysm”, receiving Nobel prize, and south of continent dictatorial speeches, I guess they might exists for experts to study phenomena. Before saying Latin-American speeches show the way of construct a territory, people's feelings at a range of time, and how they are important to convoke audiences to be persuaded. Most of these Latin-American speeches talk to emotions and senses more than to reason. Many people call this populism, so Latin people quit believing in this promises, which can explain why there are too little writing to be spoken or worth keeping. People is not writing nor reading they are suspicious practices, sum to lack of opportunities for learning. No one believes in pseudo-prophets, any of them propose new ideals, there is a leadership crisis, and leaders are getting murdered. All we think is school needs to start teaching people to think, to think about who we are? ¿how do we perceive and learn world?  what`s good or bad? About the sense of what I think, say and do, and , if  I do really have something to say, it is my liberty and my rights. The way people construct democracy, civilization, and public politics. We have not done this homework.

Lucy Tatiana Galvis Peñuela. Bogotá – Colombia. Harvard`s Edx online Rhetoric student. 2020.

Paquita la del barrio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ry1uvwjbEE

Cantinflas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDPPDYLRNok

Rigoberta Menchú`s: Qué es la paz?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou9EhesDabc