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Latin American

Latin American \Lat"in A*me"ri*can\, prop. a. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Latin America.

Latin American

Latin American \Lat"in A*me"ri*can\, prop. n. A native or inhabitant of Latin America.

Usage examples of "latin american".

Present time, US are using Panama as a base to hit the drug barons in the Andes and Central America and train Latin American soldiery in civic action against enemies yet to be defined.

They were mostly colorful souvenirs from her Latin American travels.

It stands as an American ally in the free world, as do the other major European country (Italy), the small Latin American country (Uruguay), and the neighbor of Russia (Turkey).

In a Latin American country nervous with talk of revolution, no man with good sense runs headlong into a shooting party, because he is likely to get stitched across the chest with Czech machine gun slugs.

Unemployment is high, about fifteen percent, though that is still a lot less than the Latin American norm.

It featured salsa bands, a tropical setting, and, best of all, it catered to the Latin American crowd down from South Beach for sport fishing.

And there's another guy who shows up late, all by himself, and is ushered to a solitary chair down at the far end: he might be a Filipino with lots of Spanish blood, but he's more likely Latin American or Southern European or just an American whose forebears came from those places.

As in the nineteenth century, Europeans and Americans today are kicking down the barriers to sales in Asia, Latin American and Africa, while barricading their own markets against Third World agriculture.

EB11 also reveals that it is possible to cultivate, not only Funtumia elastica, but also the Latin American rubber trees, in Africa.

The man's photo had not been in Stony Man's file of Latin American exiles associated with Monroe.

Their first step will be to assassinate the leader of the Latin American country that they plan to take over.