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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta made history this week when he removed the restriction on women fighting in combat in American wars. Many countries in Latin America, however, took that step years ago, Spanish news wire EFE reports. Despite the region’s reputation for “machismo,” a uniquely Latin form of sexism, women are permitted to fight alongside men in seven countries, though it rarely happens in practice. Latin American countries don’t fight nearly as many wars as the United States.

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