His thesis is that the economy, society, and institutions of the Latin states are best understood in the light of their colonial status.

Colombia is supposedly the 'most democratic' of Latin American states.

Europeans and most Latin American states support the Arias plan.

Neither of these expeditions was capable of giving any sound assistance to the beleaguered Latin states.

Instead the surviving Latin states were bound to Rome by separate bilateral treaties.

Most would go to Asian, Latin American and African states.

In recent years, however, the film industry has become an extra that Latin American states can ill afford.

Further, the Cuban economy is in dire straits; the time when it might have been an attractive model for other Latin states has passed.

Fortunately, by the end of the 1980s and the early 1990s nearly every Latin American state had returned to democracy.

It was funded by the Latin American states and the total cost of construction was approximately $70 million.