Soaps in Spain

I read with amused chagrin Stanley Meisler’s Feb. 12 article “Soaps Sending Spain Down Drain?” He writes that Spain’s intellectuals are complaining that their country’s addiction to “low-brow” soap operas produced in Latin American countries are reducing their people to a 10-year-old’s mentality.

Perhaps this is Latin America’s ultimate revenge for the early Spaniards destroying the rich (and often advanced) culture of that region. The surviving natives fled and hid; denied both their culture and schooling, they become -- as one person in the article arrogantly put it -- “the illiterate and miserable population that lives below the level of material and spiritual subsistence.”

TRINI MARQUEZ Sky Forest, Calif.