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Definition: Latin America |
Latin AmericaNoun1. The parts of North and South America south of the United States where Romance languages (Spanish and Portuguese) are spoken. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | The geographic area of Latin America in general and when the specific country or countries are not indicated. It usually includes Central America, South America, Mexico, and the islands of the Caribbean. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Latin America describes the American countries south of the United States, comprising all of South America, Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Nations of this region where the English Language predominates (eg Jamaica, Belize, Guyana) are often excluded from this term. Most usually it only refers to the nations where the Spanish and Portuguese languages predominate.
A Latino is a person of Latin American heritage, or of the Latin-American culture.
Etymological note: Treating the term literally, one might expect the term to apply to cultures and regions in the Americas deriving from cultures speaking Romance languages (those descended from Latin). However, French-speaking areas of the Americas, such as Quebec and Acadia in Canada, as well as Haiti, are not considered part of Latin America. Yet this was the original intention of the term -- "Latin America" was first proposed during the French occupation of Mexico (1862-1867), when Napoleon III supported the Archduke Maximilian's pretensions to be emperor of Mexico. The French hoped that an inclusive notion of "Latin" America would support their cause. That Mexican citizens eventually expelled the French while retaining the term "Latino" is perhaps one of history's more charming ironies.
The alternative term IberoAmerica is sometimes used to refer to the nations formerly colonies of Spain and Portugal, these last two countries being located on the peninsula of Iberia.
Latin American countries include:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Latin America."
Crosswords: Latin America |
| English words defined with "Latin America": Brasil, Brazil ♦ cha-cha, cha-cha-cha, Costa Rica ♦ Economic Commission for Latin America ♦ Federative Republic of Brazil ♦ Latin, Latin American, Latin-American, llano ♦ Republic of Costa Rica ♦ Spanish American ♦ Third World. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Latin America": CEPAL ♦ ECLAC, ERYNGIUM FOETIDUM ♦ Geographic Area of Chargeability, Gregarines ♦ latino/a ♦ REDATAM, rostrum ♦ Sombonaza ♦ Third World Countries. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Latin America": Columbium. (references) |
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Screenplays | Recently I saw a book on Latin America. There were photos of your ancient pyramids. (Charme discret de la bourgeoisie, Le; writing credit: Luis Buuel; Jean-Claude Carrière) | |
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 | To increase the genetic diversity of U.S. corn, the Germplasm Enhancement for Maize (GEM) project seeks to combine exotic germplasm, such as this unusually colored and shaped maize from Latin America, with domestic corn lines. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller.. |  | I'm taking a trip to Latin America, Chief ...Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Ernesto "Che" Guevara portrait superimposed on map of Latin America.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Jornada internacional de solidaridad con America Latina (19 al 25 de Abril) = International week of solidarity with Latin America (April 19 to 25) ...Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Solidarity : Vietnam, Palestine, Rhodesia, South Africa, Latin America : GUPS.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Health | Predicting how long the epidemic in Latin America will last is difficult. (references) | |
Ongoing global pandemic in Asia, Africa and Latin America for the last four decades. (references) | ||
Rabies is common in developing countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America where dogs are the major reservoir of rabies. (references) | ||
Business | Camisea is the largest gas deposit in Latin America. (references) | |
Guatemala is the seventh largest exporter in the world and the third in Latin America. (references) | ||
Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, North America, Latin America), and the total world market. (references) | ||
Economic History | Argentina | Argentines enjoy the largest GDP per capita in Latin America. (references) |
Peru | The USAID program in Peru is its second-largest in Latin America. (references) | |
Spain | Spain has maintained its special identification with Latin America. (references) | |
Human Rights | Chile | The case was moved out of the military court and into the civilian court in 2000. On April 15, Argentine Judge Rodolfo Canicoba sought to extradite Pinochet and former DINA (the secret police/intelligence service during the military regime) head Manuel Contreras in the investigation of Operation Condor, an undercover operation in which several military governments in Latin America cooperated to eliminate leftist opponents. (references) |
Political Economy | COLOMBIA | Colombia has one of the highest taxation levels in Latin America. (references) |
URUGUAY | Social indicators place Uruguay among the most advanced countries in Latin America. (references) | |
Trade | Colombia | Even after the merge, the new exchange is still one of the smallest in Latin America. (references) |
Chile | Foreign Exchange operation is particularly active and efficient by Latin America standards. (references) | |
Chile | Foreign trade financing and money exchange operations are particularly active and efficient compared to the rest of Latin America. (references) | |
Travel | Egypt | The U.S. Embassy in Cairo is located on Latin America Street, Garden City, near downtown Cairo. (references) |
Uruguay | Several airlines have service to Montevideo's Carrasco international airport from Europe, and other parts of Latin America. (references) | |
Egypt | The mailing address from the U.S. is: U.S. Embassy Cairo, APO-AE 09836-4900; from Egypt, it is 5 Latin America Street, Cairo. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Austria | Women also were trafficked from Asia and Latin America to Austria for domestic labor. (references) |
Germany | The other 20 percent of trafficking victims come from Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America. (references) | |
Canada | These persons come primarily from East Asia (especially China and Korea; also Malaysia), Eastern Europe, Russia, Latin America (including Mexico, Honduras, and Haiti), and South Africa. (references) | |
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John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Today it is feeding one out of every four school age children in Latin America an extra food ration from our farm surplus. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Africa stands at an earlier stage of development than Latin America. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | The agreement is an important element in our international commodity policy with far-reaching implications for our relations with developing countries, particularly sugar producers in Latin America. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | So this year we will forge new partnerships with Latin America, Asia, and Europe. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Together with friends and allies from Europe to Asia, and Africa to Latin America, we will demonstrate that the forces of terror cannot stop the momentum of freedom. |
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| USA | AT&T Latin America Corp. |
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Expression using "Latin America": economic Commission for Latin America. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "Latin America"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | amerikë latine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 拉美 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | latinská amerika. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | Latinamerika. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Latijns-Amerika, Latýns-Amerika. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | Latinida Ameriko. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | Latinalainen Amerikka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Amérique latine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Lateinamerika. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Λατινική Αμερική. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | latin-amerika. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | America latina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ラタン家具 (lacquer, ladder, lap, lap time, laptop, LASH, latch, latex, Latin, Latin-American, latitude, lucky, lucky seventh, lucky zone, rack, rap, Rassa, rat, rattan furniture, ruck, rudder, ruffle, rush, rush hour, rush print, Russell, wrap, wrap-around, wraparound skirt, wrapping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ラテンアメリカ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atinlay americaay latino (hispanic, lately), AméricaLatina, América Latina (latin american). (various references) america latinã. (various references) latinska amerika, južna amerika (south america). (various references) América Latina. (various references) latinamerika. (various references) латинська америка. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Latin America" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: latin ameerica, Latinamerica. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-e-i-i-l-m-n-r-t" | |
-2 letters: catamenial. | |
-3 letters: animalier, anticrime, catamenia, criminate, laciniate, laminaria, melanitic, militance. | |
-4 letters: actiniae, analcime, analcite, analecta, animalic, animater, antimale, calamari, calamine, calamint, calamite, carinate, claimant, clarinet, craniate, criminal, iatrical, inertial, irenical, laitance, laminate, limacine, limnetic, malarian, maniacal, marinate, marlitic, material, maternal, metrical, tailrace, terminal, tramline. | |
-5 letters: acarine, actinal, actinia, ailment, airline, airmail, airtime, aliment, almanac, amanita, amentia, amirate, anaemia, anaemic, animate, antiair, anticar, article, calamar, camelia, cameral, cantala, caramel, carinae, carinal, carline, carmine, cateran, central, ceramal, ceratin, certain, ciliate, citrine, claimer, clamant, climate, cranial, creatin, crinite, inciter, inertia, interim, intimae, intimal, lactean, laminae, laminar, latrine, limiter, lintier, malaria, maltier, manacle, manlier, mantric, maranta, marital, marline, marlite, martial, martian, martini, matinal, melanic, metical, miltier, minaret, mincier, mineral, minicar, mintier, miracle, nematic, neritic, nitrile, raiment, ramenta, ramilie, ratline, recital, reclaim, reliant, retinal, tacrine, talaria, tamarin, termini, trenail. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 74 69 6E 41 6D 65 72 69 63 61 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101110 00100000 01000001 01101101 01100101 01110010 01101001 01100011 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a t i n   A m e r i c a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0074 0069 006E 0041 006D 0065 0072 0069 0063 0061 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4667867580235797184756967 |
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