The illegal drug trade in Latin America concerns primarily the production and sale of cocaine and cannabis, including the export of these banned substances to the United States and Europe.The Coca cultivation is concentrated in the Andes of South America, particularly in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia; this is the world's only source region for coca.. Drug consumption …

Various types of witchcraft and occult religious practices exist in Latin American and Afro-Caribbean cultures, known in Spanish as brujería (pronounced [bɾuxeɾˈi.a]). Influenced by indigenous religion, Catholicism, and European witchcraft, the purpose may range from white magic to black magic.. A male practitioner is called a brujo, a female practitioner is a bruja.

In video games, Elden Ring wins Game of the Year at The Game Awards. American basketball player Brittney Griner and Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout (pictured) are freed via a prisoner exchange.; In Germany, 25 members of a far-right group are arrested in connection with a coup d'état plot.; Albert Rösti and Élisabeth Baume-Schneider are elected to the Federal Council, …

Nickelodeon is a Latin American pay television channel, counterpart of the American network of the same name.It is owned by Paramount Networks Americas and was launched on 20 November 1995. Aside from airing Nick and Nick Jr. content, it has produced original programming for the channel and has been sold to local distributors worldwide except for Cuba as cable television is …

This is a list of Latin American countries and dependent territories by population, which is sorted by the 2015 mid-year normalized demographic projections. Table. Rank Country (or dependent territory) July 1, 2015 projection % of pop. Average relative annual growth (%) Average absolute annual growth Estimated doubling time (Years)

The Church History (Greek: Ἐκκλησιαστικὴ ἱστορία; Latin: Historia Ecclesiastica or Historia Ecclesiae) of Eusebius, the bishop of Caesarea was a 4th-century pioneer work giving a chronological account of the development of Early Christianity from the 1st century to the 4th century.It was written in Koine Greek, and survives also in Latin, Syriac and Armenian …

Religion in Latin America is characterized by the historical predominance of Catholic Christianity, increasing Protestant influence, as well as by the presence of Irreligion.According to survey data from Statista 2018, 58.7% of the Latin American population is Catholic and 19,5% is Protestant, rising to 22% in Brazil and over 40% in much of Central America.

Latin American Canadians (French: Canadiens d'Amérique latine; Portuguese: Canadenses da América Latina; Spanish: Canadienses de América Latina) are Canadians who are descendants of people from countries of Latin America.The majority of Latin American Canadians are multilingual, primarily speaking Spanish, Portuguese, French and English.Most are fluent in …

Formal theory. Formally, a string is a finite, ordered sequence of characters such as letters, digits or spaces. The empty string is the special case where the sequence has length zero, so there are no symbols in the string.

Civilian internees. President Woodrow Wilson issued two sets of regulations on April 6, 1917, and November 16, 1917, imposing restrictions on German-born male residents of the United States over the age of 14. The rules were written to include natives of Germany who had become citizens of countries other than the U.S.; all were classified as aliens. Some 250,000 people in that …

The history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is typically divided into three broad time periods:. The early history during the lifetime of Joseph Smith which is in common with most Latter Day Saint movement churches,; A "pioneer era" under the leadership of Brigham Young and his 19th-century successors, and; A modern era beginning around the turn of the …

The Seal of the Confederate States prominently features the Statue of Washington in the capital square at Richmond. In the seal, Washington is surrounded with a wreath made of some of the main agricultural products of the Confederacy: wheat, corn, tobacco, cotton, rice and sugar cane.The top margin features the words 'The Confederate States of America: 22 February 1862'.

The colonial period began when Christopher Columbus reached the eastern coast of Costa Rica on his fourth voyage on September 18, 1502. Numerous subsequent Spanish expeditions followed, eventually leading to the first Spanish colony in Costa Rica, Villa Bruselas [], founded in 1524. During most of the colonial period, Costa Rica was the southernmost province of the …

Sofrito (Spanish, pronounced ), sofregit (), soffritto (Italian, pronounced [sofˈfritto]), or refogado (Portuguese, pronounced [ʁɨfuˈɣaðu]) is a basic preparation in Mediterranean, Latin American, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese cooking. It typically consists of aromatic ingredients cut into small pieces and sautéed or braised in cooking oil.. In modern Spanish cuisine, sofrito consists ...