"In his garbled description of the slightly artificial nature of the border and its creation, he was… not entirely wrong. Where he was wrong was in the implication that this process makes it either illegitimate or unusual today. It’s neither."
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Is the reason Latin America is broadly devoid of straight line (national) borders because most of it had the same colonial power so in the end it was broadly divided by the people who lived there?
I'm actually not sure. I suspect it's partly because it was mostly run by two powers, partly because the imperial takeover pre-dates decent maps. But I'm a bit hazy
Legitimacy can of course be argued. Endlessly. And is generally an argument enlisted to advance a cause (that’s not a novel insight on my part either of course)
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Look at state boundaries...