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Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands are claimed by Argentina. The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) [a] is a regional bloc of Latin American and Caribbean states proposed on February 23, 2010, at the Rio Group – Caribbean Community Unity Summit, [1][2][3] and created on December 3, 2011, in ...
The term Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC[1]) is an English-language acronym referring to the Latin American and the Caribbean region. The term LAC covers an extensive region, extending from The Bahamas and Mexico to Argentina and Chile. The region has over 670,230,000 people as of 2016, [citation needed] and spanned for 21,951,000 square ...
Puerto Rico mío: four decades of change= cuatro décadas de cambio (Smithsonian, 1990), history in photographs; captions in English and Spanish.. online; Dinwiddie, William. Puerto Rico; its conditions and possibilities (1899) online; Mintz, Sidney W. Worker in the cane; a Puerto Rican life history (1974) online; Steward, Julian H.; et al.
Reforma de Salud de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico Health Reform) – locally referred to as La Reforma ('The Reform') – is a government-run program which provides medical and health care services to the indigent and impoverished, by means of contracting private health insurance companies, rather than employing government-owned hospitals and ...
Latin America often refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages are the main languages and the culture and Empires of its peoples have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact. It is "commonly used to describe South America (with the exception of Suriname, Guyana and the Falkland islands), plus ...
The region known as Hispanic America (Spanish: Hispanoamérica or América Hispana) and historically as Spanish America (América Española) is all the Spanish-speaking countries of the Americas. [1][2] In all of these countries, Spanish is the main language - sometimes sharing official status with one or more indigenous languages (such as ...
Linguistic map of Latin America. Spanish in green, Portuguese in orange, and French in blue. Spanish and Portuguese are the predominant languages of Latin America. Spanish is the official language of most of the countries on the Latin American mainland, as well as in Puerto Rico (where it is co-official with English), Cuba and the Dominican ...
The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNECLAC, ECLAC or CEPAL[a]) is a United Nations regional commission to encourage economic cooperation. ECLAC includes 46 member States (20 in Latin America, 13 in the Caribbean and 13 from outside the region), and 14 associate members which are various non-independent ...