{"id":2242,"date":"2012-12-07T08:52:36","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T16:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elpedalero.com\/?page_id=2242"},"modified":"2014-10-14T06:49:58","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T13:49:58","slug":"the-19-latin-american-states","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/elpedalero.com\/?page_id=2242","title":{"rendered":"THE 19 LATIN AMERICAN STATES"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although the term \u201cLatin America\u201d is a little fuzzy, the following nineteen countries are generally considered to be the true Latin American states.<\/p>\n

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Argentina<\/a><\/p>\n

Bolivia<\/a><\/p>\n

Brazil<\/a><\/p>\n

Chile<\/a><\/p>\n

Colombia<\/a><\/p>\n

Costa Rica<\/a><\/p>\n

Cuba<\/a><\/p>\n

Dominican Republic<\/a><\/p>\n

Ecuador<\/a><\/p>\n

El Salvador<\/a><\/p>\n

Guatemala<\/a><\/p>\n

Honduras<\/a><\/p>\n

Mexico<\/a><\/p>\n

Nicaragua<\/a><\/p>\n

Panama<\/a><\/p>\n

Paraguay<\/a><\/p>\n

Peru<\/a><\/p>\n

Uruguay<\/a><\/p>\n

Venezuela<\/a><\/p>\n

Belize, I would call an “honorary” Latin American state. Spanish is spoken more widely than English in Belize (source: Ethnologue<\/a>, 2006) and, as a geographical argument for inclusion, it forms part of Central America. Historically, it was part of the Mayan empire and was officially a Spanish colony until 1862.\u00a0I’d even go so far as to call Belize Latin America’s\u00a020th state.<\/p>\n

Guyana, French Guiana, Surinam, Trinidad and Tobago, Haiti, the Caribbean island states (excepting Cuba and the Dominican Republic), and the Falkland\/Malvinas Islands, while all belonging to The Americas, are not usually included as part of Latin America.<\/p>\n

Puerto Rico has been a US territory since 1898 and Puerto Ricans have been US citizens since 1917. They\u2019ve been a US Commonwealth since 1952 and in 2012 the citizens voted in favour of becoming the 51st state. Historically, Puerto Rico was once part of Latin America, but historically so were Texas, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Nevada.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 El Pedalero, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Although the term \u201cLatin America\u201d is a little fuzzy, the following nineteen countries are generally considered to be the true Latin American states. Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Uruguay Venezuela Belize, I would call an “honorary” Latin American state. Spanish […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2242","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elpedalero.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elpedalero.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elpedalero.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elpedalero.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elpedalero.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2242"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/elpedalero.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4628,"href":"https:\/\/elpedalero.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2242\/revisions\/4628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elpedalero.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}