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Obama would do well to remember Ronald Reagan's comment on returning from his first trip to South America as President: "These Latin American countries are all very different from each other."

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  1. noun A nation or state.
  2. noun The territory of a nation or state; land.
  3. noun The people of a nation or state; populace: The whole country will profit from the new economic reforms.

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  • All the green Latin American countries are moving towards smaller families. —  Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen
  • Castro had sent armed guerrillas to attempt the violent overthrow of four sovereign Latin American countries, stole $2 billion from American businessmen at Czech machine-gun point, invited in thousands of Soviet military and police agents, kidnapped 50 U.S. citizens from Guantanamo Bay, and jailed and executed several Americans before we lifted a finger against him. —  American Thinker
  • Although Haiti actively assisted the independence movements of many Latin American countries, the independent nation of former slaves was excluded from the hemisphere's first regional meeting of independent nations, in Panama in 1826, and did not receive U.S. diplomatic recognition until
  • It now operates in 20 European countries and nine Latin American countries, and reported $7 billion in sales in 2008.
  • The turtles are used for meat and in Traditional Chinese Medicine in Asian countries, and exported as pets to the US, Europe and Japan. —  Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed
 

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