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Guest Column: Louisiana and Latin America have a shared past. They should share a future as well.
A dilapidated statue of Simón Bolívar, the founding father of several Latin American countries, sits off the intersection of Canal and Basin Streets — a gift from the Venezuelan government to the city in 1957. The statue's condition mirrors U.S. public …