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Latin America. Cody Donato Chris Gieri Kelsey Rosebeary Paolo DeGuzman. Argentina- 40,913,584 Belize- 307,899 Bolivia- 9,775,246 Brazil- 198,739,269 Chile- 16,601,707 Colombia- 43,677,372 Costa Rica- 4,253,877 Ecuador- 14,573,101 El Salvador- 7,185,218 French Guiana- 229,000.
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Latin America Cody DonatoChris GieriKelsey Rosebeary Paolo DeGuzman
Argentina- 40,913,584 Belize- 307,899 Bolivia- 9,775,246 Brazil- 198,739,269 Chile- 16,601,707 Colombia- 43,677,372 Costa Rica- 4,253,877 Ecuador- 14,573,101 El Salvador- 7,185,218 French Guiana- 229,000 Guatemala- 13,276,517 Guyana- 752,940 Honduras- 7,810,848 Mexico-111,211,789 Nicaragua- 5,891,199 Panama- 3,322,576 Paraguay-6,349,000 Peru- 29,461,933 Suriname-470,000 Uruguay- 3,494,382 Venezuela-26,814,843 Total: 561,183,291 Countries
Religion • Majority: Roman Catholic • Minority: Protestant
Exports • Apparel • Bananas • Chemicals • Coffee • Fish • Nickel • Petroleum • Steel • Textiles • Zinc
Imports • Chemicals • Consumer Products • Electricity • Machinery • Petroleum • Plastic
Education • An average of about 9 years compulsory • An average of about 90.95% of the population are literate
Poverty Levels • 33.2% of the regional population are living in poverty (as of 2008) • 12.9% of the regional population are living in extreme poverty • Between 2002 and 2007, the percent of people living in poverty dropped by 9.9% because of the social development in Latin America caused by improvements in income distribution http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45047
Historical Conflicts • Wars usually resulted from wars of independence, revolutions, or border disputes • Peru and Ecuador have fought three times (1941, 1989, and 1995) over a section of land on the Amazon River Basin known as the Cordillera del Condor region. This conflict was resolved with a peace treaty signed in 1998 http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-132662-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
Critical Events Carlos Montemayor, drug gang leader in Mexico, was arrested by Mexican police November 23, 2010. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mexico-capture-20101125,0,5210819.story Armored vehicles storm Rio de Janeiro searching for illegal drugs and gang leaders http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/11/28/brazil.rio.violence/index.html Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, wants a Socialist country. http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-world-latinamerica/20101127/LT.Venezuela.Chavez/
Current Events cont. Rafael Correa Juan Manuel Santos Colombia and Ecuador are resuming full diplomatic relations. http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/11/26/colombia.ecuador/index.html