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Latin America
Running Head LATIN AMERICA Latin America : The Global Economic Context and its Influence on Latin American History Students Name Latin America Latin America is a vast region in the Americas where the main languages spoken include Portuguese , Spanish and some French . The region covers a geographical area of approximately 21 ,069 ,501 square kilometers . Latin America 's 2009 and it 's combined GDP at 4 .26 trillion . The expected economic growth rate is more or less 4 for the year 2010 Latin America includes countries like Brazil , Argentina , Chile , Ecuador
br and Venezuela among so many other countries . At the eve of independence Latin America had a lot in common including common colonial domination and shared characteristics in terms of controlled access to global trade and concentrated land ownership . The region still shares a lot including history , culture , language and challenges
The 19th century was characterized by mass migration brought about by the world 's first wave of migration from the Old to the new world . The Latin American population surged as a direct result of these mass migrations thus increasing the unskilled labor supply in the economy Brazil , Argentina and Uruguay received the largest number of immigrants in the 19th century . Case in point is Argentina where by the turn of the 20th century every one in three inhabitants was a foreigner while Uruguay doubled its population (Arroyo , 2007
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