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| plateau in the Andes located about 12,000 feet above sea level. Bolivia's capital city, La Paz, is built upon the altiplano. |
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| languages of combined African and European origin spoken widely in the Caribbean, especially by those without much formal education. Creole, with French, is the official language of Haiti. Also used to describe persons of European descent born in Spanish America. |
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| perspective on Latin American political and economic history developed by Latin American scholars in the 1970s and 1980s; argues that Latin American countries have not been able to pursue independent development goals because their economies are tied to and dependent on the growth of other nations, particularly the industrialized economies of North America and Western Europe. Some proponents of this view also maintain that economic dependency leads almost inevitably to political authoritarianism. |
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| the total value of production in any country during the course of one year. GNP per capita is the total production divided by the number of citizens, giving a figure of average income per person that is a very rough estimate of the average standard of living in the country. |
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| theory developed by North American scholars in the late 1950s and early 1960s which proposed that economic growth and industrialization had been delayed in Latin America and the Caribbean, but would eventually occur there as it had in the United States. Proponents of this view also argued that the processes of growth and industrialization would bring about political democracy and greater social equity in the region. |
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| language spoken by most indigenous peoples in the Andes. Quechua and Spanish are the official languages of Peru. |
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