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Latin America

noun

The parts of North America and South America to the south of the United States where Romance languages are spoken.

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"Latin america" Quotes from Famous Books

... to have a mentor in the West. He has gained neither peace nor fortune in wandering under the fringing palms of Latin America. ...

— The Little Lady of Lagunitas • Richard Henry Savage

... but for a long time it was confined to Europe and Latin America. She sang seven seasons in St. Petersburg, three in Mexico, two in Madrid, four in Buenos Aires, and even on the Pacific coast of America before she appeared in New York. She had sung Lucia more than 200 times before her first appearance at Covent Garden, and ...

— Caruso and Tetrazzini on the Art of Singing • Enrico Caruso and Luisa Tetrazzini

... remedied, thanks largely to the Spanish bishop, Bartolome de las Casas, and instead of forming a miserable remnant of an almost extinct race, as they do in the United States, the Indians freely intermarried with the Spaniards, whom they always outnumbered. As a result, Latin America is peopled by nations which are predominantly Indian in blood, [Footnote: Except in the southern part of South America.] Spanish or Portuguese [Footnote: In Brazil.] in language, ...

— A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. • Carlton J. H. Hayes

... attention to the development of railway systems and cities in the United States. Their South American and Australian investments have not proven satisfactory, especially the former, owing to the character of the people of Latin America. It has been pointed out that no real-estate investment can be more than moderately profitable in climates which render the people content with a mere living, and that the restless and unsatisfied vigor of the Anglo-Saxon alone can make lands and railways permanently remunerative. Mr. Cornish ...

— Aladdin & Co. - A Romance of Yankee Magic • Herbert Quick

... question which William Tanner had asked himself many a time when he first came to Mexico. "This is the way of it, Mr. Farwell," he said. "The church came to Mexico, and to all Latin America, from Spain and Portugal. It had a few great names, we must acknowledge, in those early times. But in a little while it settled down to two activities—to make itself the sole religious authority and to get rich. It was a church ...

— John Wesley, Jr. - The Story of an Experiment • Dan B. Brummitt