LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Latin America: Southern Brazil
built 633 days ago
With a population today of about 44.4 million people, it ties for the third-highest population in Latin America after Brazil with 184 million and Mexico with 109 million. It even surpasses Argentina’s 40 million people. By the way, Colombia is just slightly less than twice the size of Texas (and twice the size of France). It can be reached by plane from Miami in 2.5 hours.
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Nickelodeon franchises, "Dora The Explorer" and "SpongeBob SquarePants" have enjoyed recent success in Latin America. "SpongeBob" was named Globo's Toon of the Year in Brazil and retail partners for the properties include Office Max, Wal-Mart and VIP Restaurants. Since its debut on Nickelodeon's US channel in 1999, SpongeBob SquarePants has been distributed to more than 135 countries around the world and is one of the hottest licenses in the marketplace today, generating more than $800 million in retail sales in the US alone.
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Colombia does have one of the largest deposits of coal in Latin America as well as large natural gas deposits. Borrowing from the successful Brazilian example of converting its vast hybrid biotech sugarcane crop into renewable biofuels (ethanol), Colombia could certainly tap into this extensive natural reservoir as it too has large sugarcane fields.
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Castillian Spanish is the predominant language in the majority of Latin American countries. Portuguese is spoken primarily in Brazil, the most populous country in the region. French is spoken in some countries of the Caribbean (notably the dependencies of Guadeloupe, Martinique, and French Guiana as well as the sovereign island-nation of Haiti). Dutch is the official language of some Caribbean islands and in Suriname on the continent; ... as Dutch is a Germanic language, these territories are not considered part of Latin America.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil - President Bush sought to reverse an impression of U.S. neglect as he opened a weeklong tour of Latin America on Thursday. Police clashed with protesters in Brazil and across the region.
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Under the terms of the agreement, TMT receives the right to manufacture B and D series engines in Brazil and to market them under its own brand name throughout Latin America. TMT will die cast and machine certain components for the same series that will be assembled by HATZ and sold throughout the rest of the world.
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