Latin America is converging with the West culturally and militarily.

Evidence

The two Latin American states that once pursued nuclear weapons abandoned those attempts. With the lowest levels of overall military effort of any civilization, Latin Americans may resent the military dominance of the United States but show no intention of challenging it. The rapid rise of Protestantism in many Latin American societies is both making them more like the mixed Catholic-Protestant societies of the West and expanding Latin American-Western religious ties beyond those that go through Rome. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 662

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘rapid rise of Protestantism convergihg Latin America with the West’ claim anticipates the cultural-marker thesis contested by later scholarship on religious demography.
• QUESTION: Did the Protestant growth thesis hold up? Worth checking current demographic data on Latin American Protestantism and Huntington’s later hedging.