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The flag of the Caribbean Community was chosen and approved in November 1983 at the Conference of Heads of Government Meeting in Port of Spain, Trinidad. The original design by the firm of WINART Studies in Georgetown, Guyana was substantially modified at the July 1983 Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government. [ 68 ]
This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Caribbean. In a general sense, the Caribbean can be taken to mean all the nations in and around the Caribbean Sea that lie within an area that stretches from The Bahamas in the north to Guyana in the south, and Suriname in the east to Belize in the west in a general sense. This ...
The period from 1920–1934 in Mexico was marked by a strong presence of military in government and a failure to implement revolutionary reforms. [ 8 ] Under President Lázaro Cárdenas (1934–40), the party transformed into the Partido de la Revolución Mexicana , which was organized on a corporate basis, with peasants, labor, the popular ...
The Caribbean (/ ˌ k ær ɪ ˈ b iː ən, k ə ˈ r ɪ b i ən / KARR-ih-BEE-ən, kə-RIB-ee-ən, locally / ˈ k ær ɪ b i æ n / KARR-ih-bee-an; [4] Spanish: el Caribe; French: les Caraïbes; Dutch: de Caraïben) is a subregion in the middle of the Americas centered around the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean, mostly overlapping with the West Indies.
The Modern Caribbean. na: The University of North Carolina Press, 1989. Langley, Lester D. The United States and the Caribbean in the Twentieth Century. London: University of Georgia P, 1989. Maingot, Anthony P. The United States and the Caribbean: Challenges of an Asymmetrical Relationship. San Francisco: Westview P, 1994. Serbin, Andres.
In the 20th century the Caribbean was again important during World War II, in the decolonization wave in the post-war period, and in the tension between Communist Cuba and the United States (U.S.). Genocide, slavery, immigration and rivalry between world powers have given Caribbean history an impact disproportionate to the size of this small ...
War, Cooperation, and Conflict: The European Possessions in the Caribbean, 1939-1945 (1988). online Archived 2019-05-27 at the Wayback Machine; Bousquet, Ben and Colin Douglas. West Indian Women at War: British Racism in World War II (1991) online Archived 2020-03-22 at the Wayback Machine; Bush, Barbara. Slave Women in Caribbean Society: 1650 ...