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 ).

Brazilian foreign policy has recently aimed to strengthen ties with other South American countries, engage in multilateral diplomacy through the United Nations and the Organization of American States, and act at times as a countervailing force to U. S. political and economic influence in Latin America.

Barrios composed many works and brought into the mainstream the characteristics of Latin American music, as did the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos.

Edson Luiz Sampel, a Brazilian expert in canon law, says that canon law is contained in the genesis of various institutes of civil law, such as the law in continental Europe and Latin American countries.

Conectiva was a company founded on August 28, 1995, in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, by a group of friends, among them Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, who was a pioneer in the distribution of Linux and open source software in Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and English for all of Latin America.

In April 2005, Mandrakesoft announced the corporate acquisition of Conectiva, a Brazilian based company that produced a Linux distribution for Portuguese-speaking ( Brazil ) and Spanish-speaking Latin America.

In Latin America, Texaco sponsors Brazilian soccer superstar Ronaldinho.

He has been giving lectures at Brown University, about Brazilian economic policy, urban development, and deforestation and taught as a guest lecturer at Sciences Po in Paris .. Also, in 2007 he became a member of the editorial board of the Latin American policy publication Americas Quarterly, for which he is a regular contributor.

His early instruction included Latin, Brazilian, and big band techniques, but focused on jazz, under the tutelage of future Yanni drummer, Charlie Adams.

* ThyssenKrupp Atlantic Steel Company ( TKCSA ), one of the largest private enterprises in Latin America, sued Brazilian researchers from public universities as UERJ ( Rio de Janeiro State University ) and Fiocruz ( Oswaldo Cruz Foundation ) for moral damages.

Edson Luiz Sampel, a Brazilian expert in canon law, says that canon law is contained in the genesis of various institutes of civil law, such as the law in continental Europe and Latin American countries.

Jacana is Linnæus ' scientific Latin spelling of the Brazilian Portuguese jaçanã.

However, the name seems to be actually a derivation of the Latin expression para bellum, which means " prepare for war " and was used to refer to the then official sidearm used by the Brazilian governmental troops and by some of the law enforcement soldiers, the Luger pistol, which was produced by the German arms maker DWM.

House music dancing styles can include movements from many other forms of dance, such as whacking, voguing, African, Latin, Brazilian ( including Capoeira ), jazz, Lindy era, tap, and even modern .. House dancing is concerned with the sensuality of the body and setting oneself free — without the worry of outside barriers.

The flag's Latin inscription, " Libertas quæ sera tamen ", is the motto of the " Inconfidencia Mineira ," which fought for Brazilian independence from Portugal.

In 1964, Latin America's first space launch site was constructed in Rio Grande do Norte ; Barreira do Inferno ( Hell's Barrier ), which was often referred to as the " Brazilian NASA ".

Although Kirchner was to the left of previous Argentine presidents, from Raúl Alfonsín to Eduardo Duhalde, and contemporary Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, he was to the right of other Latin American presidents as Hugo Chávez or Fidel Castro.

In July 2011, ING divested all its Latin American insurance operations to the Colombian insurance group GrupoSura for US $ 3. 85 billion, excluding ING's 36 percent holding in Brazilian insurer Sul America which will be sold at a later date.

At one time, Latin American census categories have used such classifications but, in Brazilian censuses since the Imperial times, for example, most persons of multiracial heritage, except the Asian Brazilians of some European descent ( or any other to the extent it is not clearly perceptible ) and vice-versa, tend to be thrown into the single category of " pardo ", although race lines in Brazil do not denote ancestry but phenotype, and as such a westernized Amerindian of copper-colored skin is also a " pardo ", a caboclo in this case, despite being not multiracial, but a European-looking person with one or more African and / or Indigenous American ancestor is not a " pardo " but a " branco ", or a White Brazilian, the same applies to " negros " or Afro-Brazilians and European and / or Amerindian ancestors.

Their music was a dance-oriented version of many kinds of Caribbean and Latin popular music, such as Cuban bolero, Brazilian samba, the merengue from the Dominican Republic, Trinidadian calypso, and American funk.

Fattoruso has been a longtime part of both the Uruguayan and Latin American music scene, including as a member of rock band Los Shakers, and swing band The Hot Blowers, as well as Brazilian Milton Nascimento and the Latin jazz and Acid Jazz group Opa.

* Perrone, Charles: From Noigandres to " Milagre da Alegria ": The Concrete Poets and Contemporary Brazilian Popular Music, Latin American Music Review, Vol.

), Brazilian and other Latin musical styles.