Latin America
-This term used to designate the twenty American republics that sreak Romsnce languages and that were colonize by the Latin nations Spain, Portougal, and France. Other less-known terms for the same region are Hispanic America, Ibero-America, and Indo-America. These republics include Mexico; the six Central American states of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama; the three island republics of Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republican; and the ten republics of South America, Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil. All these nations speak Spanish except Brazil, which speaks Potugese, and Haiti, which ...
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alike and from 1580-1640 were united.
Influence of Geography on Life
The location of each country helps to explain its psychology and national interest and polices. Mexico, next door to the United States, is influenced by the wealth and customs of its northern neighbor. Argentina, peopled largely by Latins, is drawn to Europe, to which it sells its meat and wheat. Brazil, bordering on every South American political division with the exception of the republics of Chile and Ecuador, has often acted as a mediator of differences among all American republics as well as its immediate neighbors. In like manner has each of the countries been influenced in its relations with the others by its geographical position.
Modern Immigration
The modern immigration movement began in the middle of the 19th century. It was the largest in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Chile. It involved mostly Europeans, although 250,000 Japanese moved to Brazil and 40,000 moved to Peru. The three largest ...
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