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Latin America refers to the regions in the Americas where Romance languages—derived from Latin, such as Spanish, Portuguese, and French—are predominantly spoken. The term is commonly used to describe South America (excluding Suriname , Guyana and the Falkland islands ), Central America , Mexico , and most of the islands in the Caribbean .
Grupo de Diarios América (English: America Group of Daily Newspapers) is a consortium of 11 major newspapers in Latin America.GDA was founded in 1991 by O Globo (Brazil), La Nación (Argentina), El Mercurio (Chile), El Tiempo (Colombia), El Comercio (Ecuador), La Prensa Gráfica (El Salvador), El Universal (México), El Comercio (Peru), El Nuevo Día (Puerto Rico), El País (Uruguay), and El ...
Latin America produces half of the world's coffee. Oranges in São Paulo. In 2018, Brazil was the world's largest producer, with 17 million tons. Latin America produces 30% of the world's oranges. The four countries with the strongest agricultural sector in South America are Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Colombia. Currently: [115]
Established as such in 1999, it includes the Clarín newspaper (the most-widely circulated in Latin America), the Artear media company, and numerous other media outlets. Peruvian newspaper El Peruano , founded October 22, 1825, is the oldest daily newspaper of Latin America currently in circulation.
The Latin American Newspaper Association ( Latin Post ) (Spanish: Periódicos Asociados Latinoamericanos, PAL) is a press group representing media organizations in Latin America. Founded in 2008, it represents 16 newspapers in 11 countries, [ 1 ] as well as magazines.
The Latin American and Caribbean countries with the most representative democracy were Costa Rica, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, and Jamaica and least democratic were Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela according to 2024 V-Dem Democracy Report. [3] Map of V-Dem Electoral Democracy Index in Latin America and the Caribbean for 2023
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 ...
[16] [17] According to Vincent Bevins, the topping of João Goulart was one of the most significant victories for the U.S. during the Cold War, as the military dictatorship established in Brazil, the fifth most populous nation in the world, "played a crucial role in pushing the rest of South America into the pro-Washington, anticommunist group ...