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Events relating to latin america
Spanish galleons assemble each year at Portobelo to deliver European goods and to ship home the metals of Latin America
With acts of defiance in Sucre, Bolivia becomes the first American province to rebel against the Spanish authorities
US president Theodore Roosevelt announces the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, in response to crises in Latin America
An underground railway opens in Buenos Aires, the first subway in Latin America
Catholic bishops in Latin America, plagued by oppressive regimes, develop the concept of liberation theology
Latin Americans in the USA stage the Great American Boycott, a day of non-cooperation to demand immigration reform