Professional Training in Social Work: The Process of Conversation, Improvement and Breakdown in the Context of Latin America and the Caribbean
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To discuss this topic, we need to clarify the term Latin America, created at the end of the Second World War, when the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean - CEPAL was created. It was used to refer to the lesser developed countries of the American continent. Latin America refers to a geographical area covering approximately 3.9% of the surface of the Earth (or 14.1% of the land surface) and includes twenty countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. What do these 20 countries have in common to permit their organization into Latin America?
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