The Latin Bridge

An Overview of São Paulo São Paulo  is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world’s seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among the five-largest metropolitan areas [...]

An Overview of Mexico City Mexico City is the Federal District capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union.It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole. Mexico City is the country’s largest [...]

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Are you serious?  Could you possibly be inferring that Latin America doesn’t need anymore missionaries?  Should we celebrate and retire because our job is done in Latin America? The above picture is actually from the back of a prayer card I picked up from a fellow missionary at a conference a few months ago.  Not surprisingly, [...]

A few years back a lady in my home town was convicted of murdering two men.  Her weapon of choice was antifreeze.  Death by antifreeze is slow and virtually undetectable by the victim.   Its sweet taste makes an easy cover to disguise the poison.  She slowly added antifreeze to the food of both her victims, until they were dead! [...]

What country in the world has the 4th highest percentage of facebook users??  The answer might surprise you.  It’s Chile!  Chile also comes in at number 16 among Twitter users, according to a recent report from CNN Chile. There are a few lessons to be learned: Latin America is no longer comprised of under developed countries with little to no [...]

In his book Forgotten Continent, Michael Reid explains why (in comparison to North America, Africa, Asia, and Europe) Latin America is so unknown.  He writes, “it (Latin America) is neither poor enough to attract pity and aid, nor dangerous enough to excite strategic calculation, nor until recently has it grown fast enough economically to quicken [...]

That’s a huge question that could be answered in many different ways!  Let’s focus on the countries and languages included in Latin America.  This region gets it’s name from the Latin based languages of the region – Spanish and Portuguese.  There are 20 countries and 10 dependencies that make up Latin America, which includes Central America, South America, [...]