ABSTRACT

This Dictionary provides an impartial and valuable background to the Latin American region, vital for anyone interested in the current affairs, recent history and economy of this vast area. Entries provide definitions of terms, concepts, names and organizations key to discussions of Central and South America. Covering some 48 countries and territories, this volume offers a unique insight to the political and economic dimensions of this diverse region.

chapter |1 pages

Acción Popular (AP)

chapter |3 pages

Agencia Chile Noticias (ACN)

chapter |1 pages

Allende, Salvador

chapter |7 pages

Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)

chapter |6 pages

Argentina

chapter |4 pages

Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC)

chapter |1 pages

Banco Central de Chile

chapter |1 pages

Banco Central del Ecuador

chapter |3 pages

Banco Central del Paraguay

chapter |3 pages

Banco de Guatemala

chapter |1 pages

Bank of Guyana

chapter |4 pages

Banque de la République d’Haïti

chapter |3 pages

Belaúnde Terry, Fernando

chapter |5 pages

Bermuda

chapter |2 pages

Bolivia, economy

chapter |1 pages

Bolsa de Bogotá

chapter |1 pages

Bolsa Mexicana de Valores, SA de CV

chapter |1 pages

Bolsa de Valores do Rio de Janeiro

chapter |7 pages

Brasília

chapter |1 pages

Cable & Wireless Jamaica Ltd

chapter |1 pages

Cámara Argentina de Comercio

chapter |2 pages

Cámara Nacional de Comercio

chapter |1 pages

Cambio-90 (C-90)

chapter |2 pages

Cárdenas Solórzano, Cuauhtémoc

chapter |3 pages

Castries

chapter |3 pages

Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago

chapter |10 pages

Chamorro, Violeta Barrios de

chapter |2 pages

Columbus, Christopher

chapter |5 pages

Commonwealth, The

chapter |1 pages

Convertibility Plan

chapter |3 pages

Costa Rica

chapter |5 pages

Cuba

chapter |2 pages

Curaçao

chapter |2 pages

Debt Crisis

chapter |5 pages

Dominica

chapter |2 pages

Duvalier, Jean-Claude

chapter |3 pages

Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, ECCB

chapter |4 pages

Ecuador, economy

chapter |3 pages

El Salvador

chapter |1 pages

Fanmi Lavalas, La

chapter |1 pages

Fox Quesada, Vicente

chapter |1 pages

French Guiana

chapter |3 pages

Frente Republicano Guatemalteco (FRG)

chapter |22 pages

Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias (FAR)

chapter |1 pages

Inforpress Centroamericano

chapter |2 pages

Instituto Costarricense de Turismo

chapter |1 pages

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

chapter |1 pages

Inter-American Press Association (IAPA)

chapter |1 pages

Jamaica Commodity Trading Co Ltd.

chapter |2 pages

John Paul II

chapter |3 pages

Lacalle, Luís Alberto

chapter |2 pages

Lima

chapter |2 pages

Manley, Michael

chapter |2 pages

Nationale Democratische Partij (NDP)

chapter |19 pages

Nevis

chapter |1 pages

Partido Acción Nacional (PAN)

chapter |1 pages

Partido Colorado (PC)

chapter |2 pages

Partido Comunista de Chile (PCCh)

chapter |3 pages

Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo (PGT)

chapter |1 pages

Partido Liberal de Honduras (PLH)

chapter |5 pages

People’s National Movement (PNM)

chapter |8 pages

Perú Posible (PP)

chapter |1 pages

Rio Group

chapter |3 pages

Rio Pact

chapter |5 pages

St Christopher (St Kitts) and Nevis

chapter |2 pages

San José, Costa Rica

chapter |4 pages

Sarney, José

chapter |1 pages

Somoza Debayle, Anastasio

chapter |3 pages

Southern Common Market

chapter |1 pages

Suriname

chapter |2 pages

Suriname, economy

chapter |2 pages

Tourism

chapter |1 pages

Trinidad and Tobago, economy

chapter |2 pages

Turks and Caicos Islands

chapter |3 pages

Uruguay

chapter |7 pages

Vargas Llosa, Mario