Latin America

Literary magic realism originated in Latin America.

A Quinceañera in Spanish, or quinceañera in the United States, is a coming of age celebration in Latin American cultures for a girl's 15th birthday.

From the outset, colonial Spanish America resulted in widespread intermarriage: unions of Spaniards (españoles), Amerindians (indios), and black Africans (negros).

Known in the United States since at least 1986, they are more commonly associated with urban areas of Latin America, such as Mexico, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil and Colombia.

Peons and peonage existed both in the colonial period and in the post-colonial period of Latin America, as well as the period after the end of slavery in the United States, when "Black Codes" were passed to retain African-American freedmen as labor through other means.

GWSP works in more than 25 countries through regional offices in Africa, East and South Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and an office in Washington, D.C. Heath P. Tarbert is the Acting Executive Director for the United States.

The campaign aims to prevent malaria infections and deaths by providing malaria education, insecticide-treated bed nets, anti-malarial drugs, diagnostics, and other interventions to vulnerable and remote communities in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

World Chagas Disease Day is observed on April 14 to raise awareness around Chagas disease, a neglected tropical disease present mostly in Latin America.