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The term Latin America was first introduced in 1856 at a Paris conference titled Initiative of America: Idea for a Federal Congress of the Republics (Iniciativa de la América. Idea de un Congreso Federal de las Repúblicas). Chilean politician Francisco Bilbao coined the term to unify countries with shared cultural and linguistic heritage.
The Liberal Network for Latin America (Spanish: Red Liberal de América Latina), (Portuguese: Rede Liberal da América Latina), abbreviated to RELIAL, is a network of 33 liberal institutions from 15 Latin American countries. Members of RELIAL include political parties as well as think tanks, foundations and research institutes.
The table below indicates the types and numbers of administrative divisions used by countries having territories in South America and their major dependent territories. It is ordered alphabetically by country name in English. France's territory in South America is French Guiana.
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 ...
Spanish: Costa Rica — República de Costa Rica: San José: 5,153,957 51,100 km 2 (19,730 sq mi) Costa Rican colón: Cuba Republic of Cuba CUB Spanish: Cuba — República de Cuba: Havana: 11,256,372 110,860 km 2 (42,803 sq mi) Cuban peso Cuban convertible peso: Dominica [n 1] Commonwealth of Dominica DMA English: Dominica — Commonwealth of ...
The term Latin America was first introduced in 1856 at a Paris conference titled Initiative of the Americas: Idea for a Federal Congress of the Republics (Iniciativa de la América. Idea de un Congreso Federal de las Repúblicas). [9] Chilean politician Francisco Bilbao coined the term to unify countries with shared cultural and linguistic ...
ALBA or ALBA–TCP, formally the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (Spanish: Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América) or the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples' Trade Treaty (Spanish: Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América – Tratado de Comercio de los Pueblos), is an intergovernmental organization based on the ...
A notable early exponent of this trend was Francisco de Miranda, who envisioned a federated republic encompassing all of Hispanic America, which he called "Colombia". The independence war efforts saw the concurrence of integrated armies composed by Spanish Americans of diverse regions on both sides of the conflict (v.g. Patriots and Royalists ...