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Latin America is the group of territories and countries in the Americas where Romance languages are spoken. The term originated in 19th century France to include French-speaking territories in the Americas within the larger group of countries that speak Spanish and Portuguese. It is therefore marginally broader than the term Iberian America or Spanish America, though it excludes French-speaking Quebec. Latin America consists of twenty sovereign states and several territories and dependencies which cover an area that stretches from the southern border of the United States to the southern tip of South America, including the Caribbean. It has an area of approximately 19,197,000 km2 (7,412,000 sq mi), almost 13% of the earth's land surface area.
As of 2015, its population was estimated at more than 626 million and in 2014, Latin America had a combined nominal GDP of 5,573,397 million USD and a GDP PPP of 7,531,585 million USD. The term "Latin America" was first used in 1861 in La revue des races Latines, a magazine "dedicated to the cause of Pan-Latinism".
Latin American Guitar Music. Ricardo Cobo, guitarra. 1. Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992): La muerte del ángel 2. Se ela preguntar 3. Promessa 4. Horacio Salgán (1916): Don Agustín Bardi 5. Ángel Villoldo (1861-1919): El Chuclo 6. Máximo Diego Pujol (1957): Stella Australis 7. Jorge Morel (1931): Milonga del viento 8. Abel Carlevaro (1952-2001): Milonga oriental 9. Jorge Morel: Little Rhapsody 10. Danza in E minor 11. Leo Brouwer (1939): Un día de Noviembre Máximo Diego de Pujol: Elegía por la muerte de un tanguero 12. I. Confuseta 13. II. Melancolía 14. III. Epílogo 15. Marco Pereira (1956): Marta 16. Astor Piazzolla: Primavera porteña
These destinations will have you feeling Buena Onda. Join http://www.WatchMojo.com as we count down our picks for the Top 10 Latin American Countries to Visit. Suggestion Tool►►http://www.WatchMojo.com/suggest Subscribe►►http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=watchmojo Facebook►►http://www.Facebook.com/WatchMojo Twitter►►http://www.Twitter.com/WatchMojo Instagram►►http://instagram.com/watchmojo Channel Page►►http://www.youtube.com/watchmojo For this list, we're focusing on countries only – not specific cities – that are culturally considered part ofLatin America. Special thanks to our user Amilcar Napoleon Quintanilla for submitting the idea using interactive suggestion tool at http://www.WatchMojo.com/suggest Check out the voting page here, http://www.watchmojo.com/sugge...
Video oficial de Telemundo Latin American Music Awards. Shaila Durcal, Aida Cuevas y Lilia Downs cierran los Latin American Music Awards con un tributo muy emotivo para Juan Gabriel. SUBSCRIBETE: http://bit.ly/1FZt7LI Telemundo trae a la pantalla los Latin American Music Awards 2015, la primera entrega en español de los famosos "American Music Awards" producidos por Dick Clark Productions. Un show musical y pre show con Alfombra Roja, donde se premia a los mejores talentos de la música de Latinoamérica, el Caribe y el mundo. SUBSCRIBETE: http://bit.ly/1FZt7LI Telemundo Es una división de Empresas y Contenido Hispano de NBCUniversal, liderando la industria en la producción y distribución de contenido en español de alta calidad a través de múltiples plataformas para los hispanos en los...
Video oficial de Telemundo Latin American Music Awards. Chiquis Rivera y sus hermanos llegan a la alfombra. SUBSCRIBETE: http://bit.ly/1FZt7LI Telemundo trae a la pantalla los Latin American Music Awards 2015, la primera entrega en español de los famosos "American Music Awards" producidos por Dick Clark Productions. Un show musical y pre show con Alfombra Roja, donde se premia a los mejores talentos de la música de Latinoamérica, el Caribe y el mundo. SUBSCRIBETE: http://bit.ly/1FZt7LI Telemundo Es una división de Empresas y Contenido Hispano de NBCUniversal, liderando la industria en la producción y distribución de contenido en español de alta calidad a través de múltiples plataformas para los hispanos en los EEUU y a audiencias alrededor del mundo. Ofrece producciones originales, p...
In which John Green talks about the many revolutions of Latin America in the 19th century. At the beginning of the 1800s, Latin America was firmly under the control of Spain and Portugal. The revolutionary zeal that had recently created the United States and had taken off Louis XVI's head in France arrived in South America, and a racially diverse group of people who felt more South American than European took over. John covers the soft revolution of Brazil, in which Prince Pedro boldly seized power from his father, but promised to give it back if King João ever returned to Brazil. He also covers the decidedly more violent revolutions in Mexico, Venezuela, and Argentina. Watch the video to see Simón Bolívar's dream of a United South America crushed, even as he manages to liberate a bunch of...
Click here to learn another language: https://go.babbel.com/gg_ytb_engall_bi7/default Spanish is spoken in Spain as well as most of Central and South America. Is the Spanish spoken across Latin America significantly different from the Spanish spoken in Spain? Does it change from country to country? We consulted native Spanish speakers from six countries to find out. Read the full article here: https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/how-is-spanish-in-spain-different-from-spanish-in-latin-america
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Read your free e-book: http://easyget.us/mebk/50/en/B00E9Z14QG/book For supplementary documentation and useful websites, click here.this perceptive book critically explores why the United States continues to pursue failed policies in Latin America. What elements of the U.s. and Latin American political systems have allowed the Cold War, the war on drugs, and the war on terror to be conflated? Why do U.s. policiesostensibly designed to promote the rule of law, human rights, and democracyinstead contribute to widespread corruption, erosion of government authority, human rights violations, and increasing destabilization? Why have the war on drugs and the war on terror neither reduced narcotics trafficking nor increased citizen security in Latin America? Why do Latin American governments, the ...
Read your free e-book: http://easyget.us/mebk/50/en/B00QS3R5MO/book This revelatory, fully illustrated anthology explores modernism's complex legacy in Latin Americafeaturing original research by renowned architects, historians, and curators from the region.beyond the Supersquare: Art and Architecture in Latin America after Modernism, which developed from a symposium presented by the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2011, showcases original essays by distinguished Latin American architects, historians, and curators whose research examines architecture and urban design practices in the region during a significant period of the twentieth century. Drawing from the exuberant architectural projects of the 1940s to the 1960s, as well as from critically engaged artistic practices of the present day, t...
Read your free e-book: http://easyget.us/mebk/50/en/B01M1RXFHQ/book Decolonial Approaches to Latin American Literatures and Cultures engages and problematizes concepts such as decolonial and coloniality to question methodologies in literary and cultural scholarship. While the eleven contributions produce diverse approaches to literary and cultural texts ranging from Pre-columbian to contemporary works, there is a collective questioning of the very idea of latin America, what latin American contains or leaves out, and the various practices and locations constituting Latinamericanism. This transdisciplinary study aims to open an evolving corpus of decolonial scholarship, providing a unique entry point into the literature and material culture produced from precolonial to contemporary times.
Read your free e-book: http://easyget.us/mebk/50/en/B00EKJBD8K/book Latin America has produced an impressive body of sociopolitical work, yet these important texts have never been readily available to a wider audience. This anthology offers the first serious, broad-ranging collection of English translations of significant Latin American contributions to social and political thought spanning the last forty years. Iván Márquez has judiciously selected narratives of resistance and liberation; ground-breaking texts in Latin American fields of inquiry such as liberation theology, philosophy, pedagogy, and dependency theory; and important readings in guerrilla revolution, socialist utopia, and postcold War thought, especially in the realms of democracy and civil society, alternatives to neoliber...
Read your free e-book: http://easyget.us/mebk/50/en/B008VSEEDM/book Foreign Aid as Foreign Policy presents a wide-ranging, thoughtful analysis of the most significant economic-aid program of the 1960s, John F. Kennedys Alliance for Progress. Introduced in 1961, the program was a ten-year, multi-billion-dollar foreign-aid commitment to Latin American nations, meant to help promote economic growth and political reform, with the long-term goal of countering Communism in the region. Considering the Alliance for Progress in Chile, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, and Colombia, Jeffrey F. Taffet deftly examines the programs successes and failures, providing an in-depth discussion of economic aid and foreign policy, showing how policies set in the 1960s are still affecting how the U.s. conducts fo...
Read your free e-book: http://downloadapp.us/mebk/50/en/B001OLRO1C/book This book examines the political evolution of the judiciary a usually overlooked political actor and its capacity to contribute to the process of democratic consolidation in Latin America during the 1990s. Calleros analyzes twelve countries in order to assess the independence, impartiality, political strength and efficiency of the judicial branch. The picture that emerges with the one exception of Costa Rica is the persistence of weak judicial systems, unable in practice to check other branches of government, including the executive and the military, while not quite effective in fully protecting human rights or in implementing due process of law guarantees. Aggravating issues, such as corruption, heavy case backlog...
Read your free e-book: http://downloadapp.us/mebk/50/en/B002NXOR10/book Over a decade ago, Jorge Castañeda wrote the classic Utopia Unarmed, which offered a penetrating and comprehensive account of the Latin American lefts fate at the end of the Cold War. Since then, the left across Latin America has travelled in paths no one could have predicted. Latin American nations from Mexico to Argentina wavered for years between leftism and American-supported neoliberalism, but in recent years the left has experienced a tremendous resurgence throughout the region. However, the left is not unified, and as Castañeda, Morales, and their contributors show, it has followed two distinct paths a more cosmopolitan style leftism, exemplified by Brazil and Chile, and a left fuelled by populist nationalism t...
Read your free e-book: http://downloadapp.us/mebk/50/en/B00E9Z0USY/book Click here to see a video interview with Emelio Betances.click here to access the tables referenced in the book.since the 1960s, the Catholic Church has acted as a mediator during social and political change in many Latin American countries, especially the Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. Although the Catholic clergy was called in during political crises in all five countries, the situation in the Dominican Republic was especially notable because the Church's role as mediator was eventually institutionalized. Because the Dominican state was persistently weak, the Church was able to secure the support of the Balaguer regime (19661978) and ensure social and political cohesion and stabil...
Read your free e-book: http://installapp.us/mebk/50/en/B018UUP6SW/book Analyzes the diverse roles and pervasive presence of disability in Latin American literature and film.libre Acceso stages an innovative encounter between disciplines that have remained quite separate: Latin American literary, film, and cultural studies and disability studies. It offers a much-needed framework to engage the representation, construction, embodiment, and contestation of human differences, and provides tools for the urgent resignification of a robust and diverse Latin American literary and filmic tradition. The contributors discuss such topics as impairment, trauma, illness and the body, performance, queer theory, subaltern studies, and human rights, while analyzing literature and film from Argentina, Brazi...
Read your free e-book: http://downloadapp.us/mebk/50/en/B007K4NKDI/book In Liberalism at Its Limits, Ileana Rodríguez considers several Latin American nations that govern under the name of liberalism yet display a shocking range of nondemocratic features. In her political, cultural, and philosophical analysis, she examines these environments in which liberalism seems to have reached its limits, as the universalizing project gives way to rampant nonstate violence, gross inequality, and neocolonialism. Focusing on Guatemala, Colombia, and Mexico, Rodríguez shows how standard liberal models fail to account for new forms of violence and exploitation, which in fact follow from specific clashes between liberal ideology and local practice. Looking at these tensions within the ostensibly well-orde...
Financed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the documentary was produced by National Geographic film crews who traveled from the Andes to the Amazon to tell five stories that illustrate the need to protect the region's natural resources.
The United States saw the emergence of leftist movements in different Latin American countries as threatening to its commercial interests, and secretly plotted with military strongmen and middle class interests concerned with the land reforms and nationalisation policies of new governments. In Guatemala Jacobo Árbenz was ousted by a CIA-inspired coup in 1954. Similarly US meddling in Chile's economic and political spheres weakened Salvador Allende grip on power, and he was ultimately deposed by his own military in 1973. The United States sent troops to the Dominican Republic in 1965 and Grenada in 1983, and trained and supported various acquiescent juntas, including a brutal regime in El Salvador. In Nicaragua the United States secretly supported the Contras against the leftist Sandinista ...
Mehdi Hasan goes head to head with Otto Reich, point man for Latin America for the last three US Republican presidents. More from Head to Head on: YouTube - http://aje.io/4a46 Facebook - http://facebook.com/AJHeadToHead Twitter - http://twitter.com/AJHeadToHead Website - http://aljazeera.com/headtohead
Ricardo Cobo: Latin American Guitar Music. Recorded at St. John Chrysostom Church, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, from 3rd to 7th April, 2003. Naxos, HNH International Ltd. (2003). Track list below. Enjoy the music! 0:00 Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992): La muerte del angel - Tango (arr. Cobo) 4:14 Dilermando Reis (1916-1977): Se ela preguntar - Waltz (Paschoito) 8:34 Dilermando Reis (1916-1977): Promessa - Waltz (Paschoito) 11:57 Horacio Salgan (b. 1916): Don Agustin Bardi (arr. Morel) 15:12 Angel Villoldo (1861-1919): El Choclo (arr. Cobo) 19:21 Maximo Diego Pujol (b. 1957): Stella australis 23:25 Jorge Morel (b. 1931): Milonga del viento 26:49 Abel Carlevaro (1952-2001): Milonga oriental 28:56 Jorge Morel (b. 1931): Little Rhapsody 34:23 Jorge Morel (b. 1931): Danza in E minor 37:56 Leo Brouwe...
Chris Spannos speaks with the acclaimed public intellectual about the shift in US policy toward Cuba and what it signals. In his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on 28 September 2015, US President Barack Obama said that ‘for 50 years, the United States pursued a Cuba policy that failed to improve the lives of the Cuban people’, and proclaimed: ‘We changed that.’ His speech comes after much news signalling a thaw in relations rooted in the Cold-War era. But does the US foreign policy shift in relations toward Cuba indicate a change in regional goals, or does it signal new strategy to advance the same old objectives? Internationally acclaimed public intellectual and linguist Noam Chomsky answers the big questions about US relations with Latin America. In this episode of Amyg...
Copyright Fantasy Records Side One 1. Oclupaca 2. Chico Cuadradino 3. Eque 4. Tina Side Two 1. The Sleeping Lady and the Giant Who Watches Over Her 2. Latin American Sunshine 3. Brasilliance