Editing Latin Americans (section)

==Definition==
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[[File:Map-Latin America.svg|thumbnail|left|200px|[[Latin America]]n countries (''green'') in the [[Americas]]]]
Latin America ({{langx|es|América Latina}} or ''Latinoamérica''; {{langx|pt|América Latina}}) is the [[region]] of the [[Americas]] where [[Romance languages]] (i.e., those derived from [[Latin language|Latin]])—particularly [[Spanish language|Spanish]] and [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]]—are primarily spoken.<ref name=Colburn>{{cite book |title=Latin America at the End of Politics |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qBCVB3mxCK8C&q=%22latin+america+at+the+end+of+politics%22&pg=PP1|last=Colburn |first=Forrest D |year=2002 |publisher=[[Princeton University Press]] |isbn=0-691-09181-1}}</ref><ref>"Latin America."''[[Oxford Dictionary of English|The New Oxford Dictionary of English]]''. Pearsall, J., ed. 2001. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press; p. 1040: "The parts of the [[Americas|American continent]] where Spanish or Portuguese is the main national language (i.e.[[Mexico]] and, in effect, the whole of [[Central America|Central]] and [[South America]] including many of the [[Caribbean]] islands)."''</ref>

It includes 20 countries or territories: [[Mexico]] in [[North America]]; [[Guatemala]], [[Honduras]], [[El Salvador]], [[Nicaragua]], [[Costa Rica]] and [[Panama]] in [[Central America]]; [[Colombia]], [[Venezuela]], [[Ecuador]], [[Peru]], [[Bolivia]], [[Brazil]], [[Paraguay]], [[Chile]], [[Argentina]] and [[Uruguay]] in [[South America]]; and [[Cuba]], the [[Dominican Republic]] and [[Puerto Rico]] in the [[Caribbean]]—in summary, [[Hispanic America]] plus [[Brazil]]. [[Canada]] and the [[United States]], despite having sizeable Romance-speaking communities, are almost never included in the definition, primarily for being predominantly English-speaking [[Anglosphere]] countries. The [[ABC islands (Leeward Antilles)]], where the primary language is [[Papiamento]], a [[Portuguese-based creole language|Portuguese Creole]], may or may not be considered part of Latin America.<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/300471435_Language_and_education_in_Aruba_Bonaire_and_Curacao</ref> 

Latin America, therefore, can be defined as all those parts of the [[Americas]] that were once part of the [[Spanish Empire|Spanish]] or [[Portuguese Empire|Portuguese]] colonial empires,<ref>{{cite book | last = Rangel | first = Carlos | title = The Latin Americans: Their Love-Hate Relationship with the United States | publisher = Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | year = 1977 | location = New York |pages = 3–5 | isbn = 0-15-148795-2 }} {{cite book | last = Skidmore | first = Thomas E. |author2=Peter H. Smith | title = Modern Latin America | url = https://archive.org/details/modernlatinameri0006skid | url-access = registration | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 2005 | edition = 6 | location = Oxford and New York |pages = [https://archive.org/details/modernlatinameri0006skid/page/1 1–10]| isbn = 0-19-517013-X }}</ref> namely [[Spanish America]] and [[Colonial Brazil]].