Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...governments of most Latin American countries are democratic, a Bush foreign policy adviser told about 500 people packed into the Kennedy School's AARCO Forum last night...
...Sister City Project will show the video free of charge at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School from 7 to 9 p.m. The evening will also include Central American music, a photo exhibit, student presentations and refreshments. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Mass.) and Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci will attend...
After winning independence from Britain, the fledgling United States established a democracy that reflected the character of the colonizers. Simon Bolivar and other Latin American revolutionaries tried to emulate the American Constitution, but their carefully crafted documents were quickly subverted by strongmen. When Augustin de Iturbide, Mexico's George Washington, assumed power in 1822, for example, he immediately had himself crowned Emperor. The Great Experiment never took firm root in Mexico or the rest of Latin America, causing a great deal of misunderstanding that persists to this...
...deal with fixed borders," he says. "Europeans have had centuries of experience, but until recently in the U.S. there was always room for expansion. I think we are still working out how to deal with borders and other cultures." Farther west in Tucson, Dr. Michael Meyer, director of the Latin America Center at the University of Arizona, points out the inordinate influence of American culture. "I doubt that one American out of 10,000 would know who Sandino was," he says, referring to the Nicaraguan guerrilla leader who in the late 1920s and early 1930s defiantly resisted U.S. intervention...
Founded in 1973 by Agha Hasan Abedi, a native of Pakistan, BCCI operates 400 branches in 73 countries. The bank is owned by just 51 shareholders, including members of the Saudi royal family. Among the BCCI officers arrested last week were top managers of the bank's Panamanian, Latin American and French divisions...