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Why are Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean called "Latin America"?

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This is because some people speak Spanish, Portuguese, and French in these american countries. That is why these countries are called Latin America.
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Because the people in these places all speak Spanish, and the explorers that came into the Latin America are fro Europe, where Latin was the predominant language
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