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Latin America
The Andes, Amazon and coasts that shape 660 million people: colonial legacies, commodities (copper, lithium, soy, oil), the inflation and debt cycles, urbanization, Mexico's nearshoring and Brazil's scale.
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Key idea
Prereqs: Physical geography basics; Commodities. Next: Development economics. Sources: World Bank & IMF country data; Geography Now; Michael Reid, *Forgotten Continent* (2017).Next: 1. Physical map