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 ).

Cuisine ( from French cuisine, " cooking ; culinary art ; kitchen "; ultimately from Latin coquere, " to cook ") is a characteristic style of cooking practices and traditions, often associated with a specific culture.

While not entirely synonymous with Anatolia, the term Asia Minor, derived from the Latin Asia Minores, refers to Asia inside the Roman Empire, versus Asia Magna, all of Asia beyond the borders.

The name of the taxon Apicomplexa is derived from two Latin words-apex ( top ) and complexus ( infolds )-and refers to a set of organelles in the sporozoite.

The term " last rites " refers to administration to a dying person not only of this sacrament but also of Penance and Holy Communion, the last of which, when administered in such circumstances, is known as " Viaticum ", a word whose original meaning in Latin was " provision for the journey ".

It usually refers to the International Standard and International Latin style dances ( see dance categories below ).

Therefore Latinos are Americans who are descendants of the Latin group ( namely Spain, France, Italy and Portugal ) and Hispanic refers to the descendants from the Iberian Peninsula ( also known as Ibero-American ).

The adjective Cartesian refers to the French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes ( who used the name Cartesius in Latin ).

Throughout much of the academic world, the term " doctor " refers to an individual who has earned a degree of Doctor of Philosophy, or Ph. D. ( an abbreviation for the Latin Philosophiæ Doctor ; or alternatively Doctor philosophiæ, D. Phil., meaning Teacher of Philosophy ), or other research doctorate such as the Doctor of Science, or Sc. D.

His agnomen Cunctator ( akin to the English noun cunctation ) means " delayer " in Latin, and refers to his tactics in deploying the troops during the Second Punic War.

The generic name is derived from the Spanish and Portuguese name for the species, and the specific name impennis is from Latin and refers to the lack of flight feathers or pennae.

The term " grammar school " historically refers to a school teaching Latin grammar to future Roman citizens, orators, and, later, Catholic priests.

Caesar does not explicitly name the tribal authorities prosecuting the case and gathering men to apprehend Orgetorix, but refers to them by the Latin terms civitas (" state " or " tribe ") and magistratus (" officials ").

ISO 8859-1 encodes what it refers to as " Latin alphabet no.

The English term is based on the Latin word jurisprudentia: juris is the genitive form of jus meaning " law ", and prudentia means " prudence " ( also: discretion, foresight, forethought, circumspection ; refers to the exercise of good judgment, common sense, and even caution, especially in the conduct of practical matters ).

Latin spelling or orthography refers to the spelling of Latin words written in the scripts of all historical phases of Latin, from Old Latin to the present.

Hispanic is a narrower term which only refers to persons of Spanish-speaking origin or ancestry, while " Latino " is more frequently used to refer more generally to anyone of Latin American origin or ancestry, including Brazilians.

Latino — which in Spanish means " Latin " but which as an English word is probably a shortening of the Spanish word latinoamericano — refers more exclusively to persons or communities of Latin American origin.

In the spelling of Hebrew and some other Semitic languages, matres lectionis ( Latin " mothers of reading ", singular form: mater lectionis, Hebrew: א ֵ ם ק ְ ר ִ יא ָ ה mother of reading ), refers to the use of certain consonants to indicate a vowel.

The word oracle comes from the Latin verb ōrāre " to speak " and properly refers to the priest or priestess uttering the prediction.

The Latin term sede vacante (" while the see is vacant ") refers to a papal interregnum, the period between the death of a pope and the election of his successor.

* In the novel The War of the End of the World from Latin American writer Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the main characters is Galileo Gall, a phrenologist whose name refers to Galileo Galilei and Franz Joseph Gall, founder of the science of phrenology.

One form of itriyya with a long history is laganum ( plural lagana ), which in Latin refers to a thin sheet of dough, and gives rise to Italian lasagna.