Son variadas las razones por las que LatinoAmerica no figura en la conciencia glogal, a los efectos de su articulo, a pesar de la capacidad demostrada de sus intelectuales-intelligentsia, y de sus pueblos en todos los ordenes; nombro solo tres de varias más:

Cuando se ve a LatinoAmerica solo como el traspatio de los Estados Unidos y se adopta la concepción que tienen de la zona como su apendice comercial-industrial-materias primas, nada más.

Cuando los medios de comunicación globales allí destacados solo se dedican a informar sobre las catastrofes naturales, sociales y politicas, y no sobre los desarrollos en dichas areas y las de naturaleza cultural, intelectual y/o tecnologíca. Este aspecto lo compartimos con otros países y zonas del mundo, desde donde se informa de la misma manera.

Cuando se parte de la premisa de que los asuntos importantes de la humanidad solo surgen de Washington, New York, London, Berlin, Paris, Estados Unidos, Union Europea, Rusia, Japón, y ahora se añade China e India.

Hay otras, pero esto no es un tratado.

Who cares about this list? The only thing more annoying than non-productive pseudo-intellectuals telling each other how important they are, is when they fight over who is more important.

I think it's mostly about three things:
economic power and language.

The U.S. has dominated in commerce for half a century, so its wealth has been felt all around the globe and many people have this idea that money and power flows from the intellectually gifted. Britain dominated this front prior to the U.S. As such the English language quickly became a global one - others learned English to engage in trade with these powers.

Top heads of industry are often quickly heralded as the most brilliant of minds, when more often than not they inherited their status, or their wealthy upbringings ensured stellar educational opportunities at top schools, universities. Their priveleged connections ensured they'd prosper in trade.

So, I'd say wealth does tend to produce lots of educated people, and if they happen to speak the language that dominates the marketplace of trade and ideas (English), then they are automatically more likely to be considered as intellectually gifted.

U.S. and British Media dominates the world so people are more likely to know their celebrities, billionaires, and intellectual elite.

I'm sure Spanish speaking countries have just as many gifted and brilliant intellectuals as we have in America and in the U.K. We'll probably just never hear about them, whereas you're probably more likely to hear about ours.