As Garabombo, the central character of the second novel by Manuel Scorza, Latin America suffered the disease of invisibility. Neither peripheral nor central Nuestramérica has remained largely in the fuzzy boundaries of Western thought. As stated José Aricó (1999) the specificity of our continent could only be conceived as deviation from the european future. The colonial heritage, its ethnically hybrid status, its discontinuous history, its economic system mired in backwardness, its mythical thought, and even his shrunken nature in comparison with the european beauty appeared in the narrative of foreigners and natives as unmistakable symptoms of an anomaly that should be corrected by all means. In this paper we propose to delve into the cons...