The term was further popularized by French emperor Napoleon III's government in the 1860s as Amérique latine to justify France's military involvement in the Second Mexican Empire and to include French-speaking territories in the Americas such as French Canada, French Louisiana, or French Guiana, in the larger group of countries where Spanish and Portuguese languages prevailed. Idea de un Congreso Federal de las Repúblicas), by the Chilean politician Francisco Bilbao. The term Latin America was first used in an 1856 conference called "Initiative of America: Idea for a Federal Congress of the Republics" ( Iniciativa de la América. The term "Latin America" is broader than categories such as Hispanic America, which specifically refers to Spanish-speaking countries and Ibero-America, which specifically refers to both Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries. The term is relatively recent, coined in the nineteenth century, used to refer to regions in the Americas that were ruled by the Spanish, Portuguese, and French empires. The term does not have a precise definition, but it is "commonly used to describe South America, Central America, and Mexico, and the islands of the Caribbean." A short definition of the region is Spanish America and Brazil, that is Portuguese America. Latin America is the cultural region of the Americas comprising multiple nation-states where Romance languages-languages that derived from Latin, i.e., Spanish, Portuguese, and French are predominantly spoken.
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