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 ).

Of particular significance to cartography were the imperial printing privileges ( Latin: privilegia impressoria ).

The corresponding noun is amor ( the significance of this term for the Romans is well illustrated in the fact, that the name of the City, Rome — in Latin: Roma — can be viewed as an anagram for amor, which was used as the secret name of the City in wide circles in ancient times ), which is also used in the plural form to indicate love affairs or sexual adventures.

In practice, however, this distinction is of little significance when referring to residents of the United States, most of whom are of Latin American origin and can theoretically be called by either word.

The main significance of the higher, postgraduate degrees was that they licensed the holder to teach (" doctor " comes from the Latin " docere ", meaning " teach "; " magister " is Latin for " master ", and often " schoolmaster ", and is also the root of " magistrate ").

Most scholars agree that the English word Maundy in that name for the day is derived through Middle English and Old French mandé, from the Latin mandatum, the first word of the phrase " Mandatum novum do vobis ut diligatis invicem sicut dilexi vos " (" A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another ; as I have loved you "), the statement by Jesus in the Gospel of by which Jesus explained to the Apostles the significance of his action of washing their feet.

An engraving after the canvas by Schelte a Bolswert clarifies the moral significance of the subject: according to the Latin inscription on the print, the goat's milk Jupiter was fed as a child was responsible for the god's notorious infidelity.

The Goliards have literary significance in that they wrote Latin verse using stress-based prosody, rather than the Classical quantitative meters, since syllable-weight had long ceased to be an actual part of Latin pronunciation.

Even apart from disputes about the significance of the word translated as " wives ", this passage is of doubtful relevance to the rule of celibacy for priests of the Latin Church, which was introduced much later and is seen only as a discipline within that particular Church alone, not a doctrine binding all: in other words, a church regulation, but not an integral part of Church teaching.

The thegn had a military significance, and its usual Latin translation was miles, meaning soldier, although minister was often used.

The term originally referred to military power: Indíbil and Mandonio, Viriathus, Almanzor ( sometimes in the modern historiography ), Don Pelayo and other fighters of the Reconquista, even Simón Bolivar, Francisco Franco, etc., but in Latin America another sense has developed: the liberal caudillo lawyer and politician Jorge Eliécer Gaitán was honored with the title " Caudillo of The Colombian People " ( and other nuances with a significance mostly demagogic-accused by the right wing opposition and some landowners -) and even without state responsibilities like cacique in Spain and oligarchical – plutocratic power.

Perhaps of greater significance than her own writing, she was founder ( 1931 ) and publisher of the magazine Sur, the most important literary magazine of its time in Latin America.

The Jesuits pursued the significance of education to their order and took over the teaching responsibilities in Latin schools and secondary schools along with other Catholic orders in several Catholic areas.

Gregory came from a Gallo-Roman aristocratic family, and his Latin, which shows many aberrations from the classical forms, testifies to the declining significance of classical education in Gaul.

The domus in Latin literature “ is charged with precisely gendered social, cultural, and political significance ;” It is mentioned within the speech at least twenty-seven times.

In an autobiographical talk given at Yale in 2002, " The Curious Misuse of a Yale Education ", Boynton refers to her book Grunt ( an illuminated book and recording of plainchant in Latin and Pig Latin ) as " the culmination of a lifetime spent joyfully squandering an expensive education on producing works of no apparent significance ".

It has generally been assumed from their high visibility in their original open fields surroundings that these sculptures had some protective religious significance, whether guarding the security of livestock or as funerary monuments ( some of them bear Latin funerary inscriptions ).

L. quietus, which is commonly found under oak trees, is often thought to be a non-descript mushroom, and in fact that is the significance of its Latin epithet quietus.

The school's Classics department describes its program as being " designed around an awareness of the historical significance of the Greek and Latin languages as foundations for the Western intellectual tradition and the history of the Catholic Church.

Many ancient sites are thought to have astronomical significance, such as the Ancient Egyptian pyramids, Harappan shell instruments, British megaliths, and buildings in China and Latin America.

Their most important colony was Carthago Nova ( Latin name of modern day Cartagena ).

* the 1984 Cartagena Declaration on Refugees for Latin America

Many film festivals take place in Colombia, but the two most important are the Cartagena Film Festival functioning every year since 1960 presenting Latin American and Spanish movies and the Bogotá Film Festival.

In 1984, a group of Latin American governments adopted the Cartagena Declaration, which like the OAU Convention, added more objectivity based on significant consideration to the 1951 Convention.

Feeling misunderstood in Cartagena de Indias, he decided to take his way into exile to Jamaica, on May 9, 1815, aspiring to reach the English-dominated world to win its co-operation with the ideal of Latin American independence.