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Latin for dignity or greatness, in reference to the really spectacular nature of this spider, it’s a big, beautiful species.

Michael Rix

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Within 48 hours, 39 state parties referred the Ukraine situation to my office, and it’s now 43 from different parts of the world – from Japan, from Latin America, and from Europe. So that’s one-third of all state parties to the court, the simple reality is that these crimes have not been hidden.

Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He didn’t understand that he needed to go to a port of entry to ask for asylum, otherwise this case would have been very different, wasi’s not from the southern border, he’s not from Latin America, and so he wasn’t really aware of how to actually present himself for asylum … He thought that he needed to apply as soon as he found a CBP (Customs and Border Protection) official to give him his documents, and that’s exactly what he did.

Jennifer Cervantes

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I know that she has ‘sangre Latina’ (Latin blood), and that's very important to us, i told my daughters, ‘one day I want you to continue with our traditions. If one day you guys will be a senator or something, I want you to remember where we're coming from.’.

Janet Gonzalez Vasquez

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The economy began to go down in Peru, we couldn't afford much food. There's also a lot of xenophobia against Venezuelans in Latin America. Sometimes people insulted us, and I didn't want that for my children.

Criszanyelis Urbaez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Latin American church has a long history of being close to the people. If we go over the episcopal conferences — the first one at Medellín, then Puebla, Santo Domingo and Aparecida — they were always in dialogue with the people of God, and that really helped. It is a popular church in the real sense of the word. It is a church of the people of God.

Pope Francis

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I was born and raised in Latin American and have lots of Mexican friends who have immigrated to the United States, they have had many negative experiences with the banking system here, whether it's because of fear, language barriers or cultural differences -- whatever it is -- there's enough Spanish speakers in the US. They deserve their own banking and that's why we started Seis.

United States

Found on CNN
1 year ago

All of the countries I've visited said that they would be [ at the Summit of Latin America. I'm looking forward to it.

Jill Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I'm aware that there are political groups in the US that are committed to confrontation, that would like to hold the people of Latin America and the Caribbean hostage, as is the case of the blockade against Cuba, which is highly promoted by Cuban politicians who have a lot of influence in the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, but I consider the blockade inappropriate, and inhumane(...) an entire people can not suffer for the interest of a group, so the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador government must decide on this because it is a matter of human rights, which has to do with sovereignty.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Participation in the Los Angeles Summit has not yet been resolved because we are proposing that no one is excluded because we seek the unity of all Latin America, we feel that there should be no confrontation. Even with the differences, we must dialogue, all Americans, then we are yet to resolve this issue ; we have a very good relationship with the government of President Biden. We want everyone to be invited. That's the position of Mexico City.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The problem is, when you buy oil from Venezuela, essentially what you're doing is you're putting dollars in to prop up the economy and more entrench the Maduro regime, and at the same time, the only reason why this regime is existing at all, is on life support, is because of support from the Chinese, the Russians and the Cubans. So you have really the most detestable regime in Latin America that’s basically subsisting on these external actors.

Jim Carafano

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I never in a million years imagined that that would be a possibility for me, particularly Snow White, in general you don't normally see Snow Whites that are of Latin descent.

Rachel Zegler

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is a level of massive, systematic criminalization of demonstrators that we have very rarely seen in Latin America in recent decades, it's very clear the message the Cuban government is trying to convey is that what happened in July is absolutely forbidden and can not happen again.

Juan Pappier

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You see the democratic muscle working, you see that we have some sort of institutional support, i think that we should be optimistic. There are warning signs but at the same time, I think that Latin Americans have learned how to use democratic tools to defend ourselves.

David Altman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is an important milestone for Latin America and highlights the importance of technology transfer to increase the availability of quality COVID-19 vaccines in the region.

United States

Found on CNN
2 years ago

On one hand, Covid and the accompanying recessions left many people in the Latin American middle class a lot worse off, and people who would not have considered migrating have decided it's a useful option, at the same time, the ease of crossing the border has made some people who have ties to the US decide it's time to come now if they're going to make it. I think both those things are true at the same time.

Andrew Selee

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It kind of opened my eyes to the fact that Latin American investors need to look beyond the United Kingdom, if you had told me two weeks earlier that there'd be so much interest, I would not have thought of it.

Benedict Odoom

Found on CNN
2 years ago

On one hand, Covid and the accompanying recessions left many people in the Latin American middle class a lot worse off and people who would not have considered migrating have decided it's a useful option, at the same time, the ease of crossing the border has made some people who have ties to United States decide it's time to come now if they're going to make it. I think both those things are true at the same time.

Andrew Selee

Found on CNN
2 years ago

CDC speaks Latin. I can't figure out who's eligible, who's not eligible. If you smoked while you were in high school, back in the 1970s, you're eligible, i think if you haven't been vaccinated in more than six months, now's the time to get the booster.

Ned Lamont

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Here was a guy that was playing stadiums in Latin America, if you [ were a label executive and you ] went to a Ricky concert in Argentina and you saw 50,000 people, you wanted to see what you could do with the guy elsewhere.

Leila Cobo

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You go to Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, and every week almost there's a Latin artist performing in Spanish. And it's perfectly normalized.

Leila Cobo

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Governments have the responsibility to protect those people to avoid the precarity and local populations' negative reactions, there are international agreements that were signed, and Latin American countries should coordinate plans of action to face this emergency.

Jorge Martínez

Found on CNN
2 years ago

These crises reveal what has been going on beneath the surface in terms of structural inequities, at the end of the day, given what is happening in Haiti and in other parts of Latin America and the Caribbean, we are going to see future events of this kind, especially as the planet warms.

The United

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I thought,' How do I assess who was there ? It's a gay club on a Latin night, and I'm gay and Latino and live in the city. Everyone I know could've been there,'.

Carlos Guillermo Smith

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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