His metier was the American tropics, and he had lived all over Latin America and among the primitive tribes on the Amazon river.

The contents were highly embarrassing to American spokesmen, who were on hand to promise Latin Americans a 20 billion dollar foreign aid millennium.

Russian tanks and planes in Cuba jeopardize the security of the United States, violate the Monroe Doctrine, and threaten the security of every other Latin American republic.

But the Latin American republics who have been rather inclined to drag their feet on taking action against Castro also reacted swiftly last week by finally throwing Cuba off the Inter-American Defense Board.

Two committees of members of the Advisory Board constitute the committees of selection -- one for the selection of Fellows from Canada, the United States, and the English-speaking Caribbean area and one for the selection of Fellows from the Latin American republics and the Republic of the Philippines.

more doubtful, but possible, ( with an assist from the North ) was the neutralization of the Latin American countries ; ;

During the nineteenth century these views were protested by virtually all the Latin American writers, though ineffectively, just as the new nations of Africa and Asia protest them, with more effect, today.

One Latin American country, Cuba, has become a Soviet bridgehead ninety miles off our coast.

On the Latin American front, the President held talks with Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon before sending him to Uruguay and the Inter-American Economic and Social Council ( which the President himself had originally hoped to attend ).

He met with enthusiastic audience approval, especially when he swung from jazz to Latin American things like the Mambo.

Besides the Portuguese, significant numbers of people from other European and from diverse Latin American countries ( especially Brazil ) can be found.

Relations between Angola and several Latin American countries, including Mexico, have become of increasing priority due to the geographical proximity and cultural similarities.

" State Agrarianism versus Democratic Agrarianism: Adalberto Tejeda's Experiment in Veracruz, 1928-32 ," Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol.

When used with a grammatical qualifier, the adjective American can mean " of or relating to the Americas ", as in Latin American or Indigenous American.

Cognate usages may cause cultural friction between U. S. nationals and Latin Americans who object to American English's exclusionary denotations of ' American '.

Latin Americans also may employ the term norteamericano ( North American ), which conflates the United States, Canada and Mexico.

His television work led to assignments as an assistant director for several Latin American film productions including Gaby: A True Story and Romero, and in 1991, he landed his first big-screen directorial assignment.

* 1980 – The Montevideo Treaty, establishing the Latin American Integration Association, is signed.

* The various ethnicities originating from early social factors of Race in the United States and the gastronomy and cuisines of the “ New World ,” Latin American cuisine and North American cuisine:

Regional chefs are emerging as localized celebrity chefs with growing broader appeal, such as Peter Merriman ( Hawaii Regional Cuisine ), Jerry Traunfeld, Alan Wong ( Pacific Rim cuisine ), Norman Van Aken ( New World Cuisine-fusion Latin, Caribbean, Asian, African and American ), and Mark Miller ( American Southwest cuisine ).

* Latin American Boom

During the second half of the century, Peruvian literature became more widely known because of authors such as Mario Vargas Llosa, a leading member of the Latin American Boom.

Shaped in part by the French " nouveau roman " of writers like Alain Robbe-Grillet, the French " La Nouvelle Vague " cinema of Godard and Truffaut, and Latin American “ Boom ,” Spanish novelists and poets, beginning perhaps with Luis Martín Santos's novel, Tiempo de silencio ( 1961 ), returned to the restless literary experimentation last seen in Spanish letters in the early 1930s.

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The magical realist style and thematic substance of One Hundred Years of Solitude established it as an important, representative novel of the literary Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s, that was stylistically influenced by Modernism ( European and North American ), and the Cuban Vanguardia ( Vanguard ) literary movement.

The Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez was one of the four Latin American novelists first included in the literary Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s ; the other three writers were the Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, the Argentine Julio Cortázar, and the Mexican Carlos Fuentes.

He played an instrumental role in the Latin Boom of the 1960s by translating works by Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, and Carlos Fuentes, and by bringing the works of Gabriel García Márquez to the attention of his future English publisher.

* Latin American Boom

Aventinus, whose name was real name is Johann or Johannes Turmair ( Aventinus being the Latin name of his birthplace ) wrote the Annals of Bavaria, a valuable record of the early history of Germany and the first major written work on the subject.

However, virtually all major works of Greek and Latin prose possessed such clausulae ; and some scholars have rejected the identification of Libanius ' Marcellinus with Ammianus, since Marcellinus was a very common name and the tone suggests Libanius was addressing a man much younger than himself ( Ammianus was his contemporary ).

The Bahamian Government also has adopted a proactive approach to courting foreign investors and has conducted major investment missions to the Far East, Europe, Latin America, and Canada.

It was thus no mere translation from the Latin: its Protestant character is made clear by the drastic reduction of the place of saints, compressing what had been the major part into three petitions.

Due to this huge amount of support, Cuba became a major sponsor of Marxist " wars of national liberation " not only in Latin America, but worldwide.

Membership in International Organizations: The major organizations in which Colombia is a member include: the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean, Andean Pact, Caribbean Development Bank, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Group of 3, Group of 11, Group of 24, Group of 77, Inter-American Development Bank, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Chamber of Commerce, International Civil Aviation Organization, International Criminal Police Organization, International Development Association, International Finance Corporation, International Fund for Agricultural Development, International Labour Organization, International Maritime Organization, International Maritime Satellite Organization, International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), International Olympic Committee, International Organization for Migration, International Organization for Standardization, International Telecommunication Union, International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, International Trade Union Confederation, Latin American Economic System, Latin American Integration Association, Latin Union, Non-Aligned Movement, Organization of American States ( OAS ), Permanent Court of Arbitration, Rio Group, United Nations ( UN ), UN Conference on Trade and Development, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UN Industrial Development Organization, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, Universal Postal Union, World Confederation of Labour, World Federation of Trade Unions, World Health Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization, World Meteorological Organization, World Tourism Organization, and World Trade Organization.

Chronic Chagas disease remains a major health problem in many Latin American countries, despite the effectiveness of hygienic and preventive measures, such as eliminating the transmitting insects.

Only when he had mastered Latin did he begin to express himself on major contemporary themes in literature and religion.

The capital of printing in Europe shifted to Venice, where visionary printers like Aldus Manutius ensured widespread availability of the major Greek and Latin texts.

According to Ellenblum's interpretation the inhabitants of the Kingdom ( Latin Christians living alongside native Greek and Syrian Christians, Shia and Sunni Arabs, Sufis, Bedouin, Turks, Druze, Jews, and Samaritans ) all had major differences between each other as well as with the crusaders.

The best Latin literature has been translated into most major languages.

Apart from the mythical derivation of Lazio given by the ancients as the place where Jupiter " lay hid " from his father seeking to kill him, a major modern etymology is that Lazio comes from the Latin word " latus ", meaning " wide ", expressing the idea of " flat land " meaning the Roman Campagna.

The name marjoram ( Old French majorane, Medieval Latin majorana ) does not directly derive from the Latin word maior ( major ).

Little is known of the latter two ( both teachers of Latin ), but Alexander was a major littérateur, the leading Homeric scholar of his day.

In his De vulgari eloquentia he wrote in Latin: " nam alii oc, alii si, alii vero dicunt oil " (" for some say òc, others sì, yet others oïl "), thereby highlighting three major Romance literary languages that were well known in Italy, based on each language's word for " yes ", the òc language ( Occitan ), the oïl language ( French ), and the sì language ( Italian ).

However, it may have also resulted from early Christian missionaries focusing their efforts within major population centers ( e. g., St. Paul ), rather than throughout an expansive, yet sparsely populated, countryside ( hence, the Latin term suggesting " uneducated country folk ") until a bit later on.

More important, United States policy toward Latin America at this time made Paraguay eligible for major economic assistance.

With assistance from the Organization of American States ( OAS ), the Inter-American Development Bank ( IDB ), and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America ( ECLA ), in 1962 Paraguay established the Technical Planning Secretariat ( Secretaría Técnica de Planificación — STP ), the major economic planning arm of the government.

It is by far the busiest airport in Puerto Rico, with direct connections to most major cities in the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Madrid, Spain.

The second, Charmes ( from the Latin carmina, meaning " songs " and also " incantations "), further confirmed his reputation as a major French poet.