As you say, this all happened in our lifetimes, and yet I heard very little about it at the time in the media.

The same historical South American figures too. Before I toured Masonic Hall in New York, I had basically no idea who Simón Bolívar was.

I mean, the man more or less founded six countries! Both Bolivia and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela named their countries and their currencies after him. And yet a “western” education had completely eliminated him…