Latin America

Latin America refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages (mainly Spanish and Portuguese) are the main languages. The region covers an area that stretches from Mexico to Tierra del Fuego and includes much of the Caribbean. Latin American culture is a mixture of many influences, including indigenous, European, African, and Asian. See Latin American Literature ...more

One Hundred Years of Solitude
Love in the Time of Cholera
The House of the Spirits
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Like Water for Chocolate
Pedro Páramo
The Savage Detectives
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
Ficciones
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Feast of the Goat
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In the Time of the Butterflies
James Barrett Reston
The people of the United States will do anything for Latin America, except read about it.
James Barrett Reston, Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting

Una lágrima caída sigue siendo propia de quien la llora.
Alfonso Barrera Valverde, El país de Manuelito

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