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 ).

For example, Alfonso halted his army in pious respect before the birthplace of a Latin writer, carried Livy or Caesar on his campaigns with him, and his panegyrist Panormita even stated that the king was cured of an illness when a few pages of Quintus Curtius Rufus ' history of Alexander the Great were read to him.

Ambrosiaster is the name given to the writer of a commentary on St Paul's epistles, " brief in words but weighty in matter ," and valuable for the criticism of the Latin text of the New Testament.

The German physician and medical writer Justus Hecker suggested that a mistranslation of the Latin atra mors ( terrible, or black, death ) had occurred in Scandinavia when he described the catastrophe in 1832 in his publication " Der schwarze Tod im vierzehnten Jahrhundert ".

According to the 4th century Latin writer Servius, a fourth set of Etruscan books existed, dealing with animal gods, but it is unlikely that any scholar living in the 4th century could have read Etruscan.

The Renaissance writer François Rabelais ( b. 1494 ) helped to shape French as a literary language, Rabelais ' French is characterised by the re-introduction of Greek and Latin words.

In 1833 he entered the household of H. C. Thoresen, the husband of the eminent writer Magdalene Thoresen, in Herøy ( then Herø ), and there he picked up the elements of Latin.

* 1950 – Luis López Nieves, Latin American writer

Gaius Julius Caesar (, July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC ) was a Roman general and statesman and a distinguished writer of Latin prose.

Jerome is the second most voluminous writer ( after St. Augustine ) in ancient Latin Christianity.

Even at the time of the Latin writer Augustine of Hippo ( 354 – 430 ), " Lucifer " had not yet become a common name for the Devil.

Machiavelli was taught grammar, rhetoric, and Latin, and became a prolific writer.

* 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.

Urban was a skilled writer of Latin verse, and a collection of Scriptural paraphrases as well as original hymns of his composition has been frequently reprinted.

The remaining sister, Minerva, became a writer and Latin scholar.

The ministry also developed a new anthology of Ruben Dario, a Nicaraguan poet and writer, established a Ruben Dario prize for Latin American writers, the Leonel Rugama prize for young Nicaraguan writers, as well as public poetry readings and contests, cultural festivals and concerts.

* Drawing on Greek Stoic sources, the Latin writer Varro distinguished three forms of such discourse: mythical ( concerning the myths of the Greek gods ), rational ( philosophical analysis of the gods and of cosmology ) and civil ( concerning the rites and duties of public religious observance ).

He is perhaps most famous for being the oldest extant Latin writer to use the term Trinity ( Latin trinitas ), and giving the oldest extant formal exposition of a Trinitarian theology.

* The Roman writer, architect and engineer Vitruvius finishes writing De Architectura ( known today as The Ten Books of Architecture ), a treatise in Latin on architecture, and perhaps the first work about this discipline.

Cyprian () ( died September 14, 258 ) was bishop of Carthage and an important Early Christian writer, many of whose Latin works are extant.

A Polish writer who used Latin as his principal vehicle of expression was Klemens Janicki ( Ianicius ), who became one of the most notable Latin poets of his time and was laureled by the Pope.

A skilled writer and orator, Coluccio drew heavily upon the classical tradition and developed a powerful prose style based on the Latin of Virgil and Cicero: " I have always believed ," Salutati wrote " I must imitate antiquity not simply to reproduce it, but in order to produce something new " In this sense his own view of humanism was broader-based than the antiquarianism of the generation of humanists he fostered.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, a prolific writer, whose works have survived in large quantity, and who serves as a standard of Latin, and his contemporaries in addition to recognizing the lingua Latina also knew varieties of " speech " under the name sermo.

* 239 BC – Quintus Ennius, Latin poet and writer, considered the father of Roman poetry ( d. 169 BC )