Puerto Rico Hosts the 10 th ISTR Regional Latin America and the Caribbean Conference. By Alfredo Carrasquillo, Universiman del Sagrado Corazón. In a collaborative effort that brought together three of the leading higher education institutions in the country, two municipal governments and a local community foundation, Puerto Rico hosted …
Latin America is a group of countries and dependencies in the Western Hemisphere where Spanish, French and Portuguese are spoken; it is broader than the terms Ibero-America or Hispanic America.
Coming unstuck Latin America needs an infrastructure upgrade. Governments risk wasting a golden opportunity to improve the region’s transport, sanitation and …
To download a PDF version of this article, click here. In July 2014, Xi Jinping, the President of China, toured Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, and Cuba, all of which had leftist governments at the time. [1] In a meeting with then-President of Argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Xi declared
FW moderates a discussion on the outlook for Latin America infrastructure between André Luiz Freire at Demarest Advogados and Vera De Brito de Gyarfas at King & Spalding. FW: In your opinion, how robust is infrastructure development activity across Latin America? What major projects are underway or
1846 The U.S., fulfilling the doctrine of Manifest Destiny, goes to war with Mexico and ends up with a third of Mexico’s territory. 1850, 1853, 1854, 1857 U.S. interventions in …
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Latin America’s armed forces have played a central role in the region’s political history. This selective annotated bibliography focuses on key sources, with varying theoretical, empirical, and normative treatments of the military governments in the region, from the Cuban Revolution (1959) until
History of Latin America – Latin America since the mid-20th century: In Latin America as elsewhere, the close of World War II was accompanied by expectations, only partly fulfilled, of steady economic development and democratic consolidation.
The term “Latin America” primarily refers to the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries in the New World.Before the arrival of Europeans in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, the region was home to many indigenous peoples, a number of which had advanced civilizations, most notably from North to South; the Olmec, Maya, Muisca …