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  2. The Right in Latin America: Elite Power, Hegemony and the ...

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    The Right in Latin America: Elite Power, Hegemony and the Struggle for the State, a book written by Irish academic Barry Cannon, details the history of right-wing politics in Latin America. Utilizing elite theory and an interdisciplinary approach, the work examines how Latin American right-wing elites maintained power, despite threats from the ...

  3. Latin American liberation theology - Wikipedia

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    Latin American liberation theology (Spanish: Teología de la liberación, Portuguese: Teologia da libertação) is a synthesis of Christian theology and Marxian socio-economic analyses, that emphasizes "social concern for the poor and political liberation for oppressed peoples". [1]

  4. Open Veins of Latin America - Wikipedia

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    Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (in Spanish: Las venas abiertas de América Latina) is a book written by Uruguayan journalist, writer, and poet Eduardo Galeano, published in 1971, that consists of an analysis of the impact that European settlement, imperialism, and slavery have had in Latin America.

  5. Clark Memorandum - Wikipedia

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    The primary purpose of the Doctrine was to protect Latin American nations from intervention by European powers, not to victimize or oppress Latin American nations. The Roosevelt Corollary was not part of the Monroe Doctrine. The application of the Monroe Doctrine by the United States was beneficial to Latin American states.

  6. History of Latin America - Wikipedia

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    The idea that a part of the Americas has a cultural or racial affinity with all Romance cultures can be traced back to the 1830s, in particular in the writing of the French Saint-Simonian Michel Chevalier, who postulated that this part of the Americas were inhabited by people of a "Latin race," and that it could, therefore, ally itself with "Latin Europe" in a struggle with "Teutonic Europe ...

  7. Latin Americans - Wikipedia

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    Latin American countries (green) in the Americas. Latin America (Spanish: América Latina or Latinoamérica; Portuguese: América Latina; French: Amérique latine) is the region of the Americas where Romance languages (i.e., those derived from Latin)—particularly Spanish and Portuguese, as well as French—are primarily spoken.

  8. Encomienda - Wikipedia

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    The meaning of encomienda and encomendero stems from the Spanish verb encomendar, "to entrust". The encomienda was based on the reconquista institution in which adelantados were given the right to extract tribute from Muslims or other peasants in areas that they had conquered and resettled. [8]

  9. Culture of Latin America - Wikipedia

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    Latin American music comes in many varieties, from the simple, rural conjunto music of northern Mexico to the sophisticated habanera of Cuba, from the symphonies of Heitor Villa-Lobos to the simple and moving Andean flute. Music has played an important part in Latin America's turbulent recent history, for example the nueva canción movement ...