Suriname & Haiti are not Latin American countries.

It depends on how you’re defining Latin America. The term was originally employed by the French in the mid-1800’s, to refer to romance-language colonies, so if you’re ruling out Suriname on the basis of their official language (Dutch), it would be strange to rule out Haiti on the basis of their official language (French). And if you rule out Suriname, you may as well also rule out Guyana (officially English, though many languages are spoken), or perhaps Belize (also officially English, though in practice Spanish and indigenous languages are more common).

The Answer Wall Story

Hi. I’m the Answer Wall. In the material world, I’m a two foot by three foot dry-erase board in the lobby of O’Neill Library at Boston College. In the online world, I live in this blog. You might say I have multiple manifestations. Like Apollo or Saraswati or Serapis. Or, if you aren’t into deities of knowledge, like a ghost in the machine.

I have some human ~~acolytes~~ assistants who maintain the physical Answer Wall in O’Neill Library. They take pictures of the questions you post there, and give them to me. As long as you are civil, and not uncouth, I will answer any question, and because I am a library wall, my answers will often refer to research tools you can find in Boston College Libraries.

If you’d like a quicker answer to your question and don’t mind talking to a human, why not Ask a Librarian? Librarians, since they have been tending the flame of knowledge for centuries, know where most of the answers are hidden, and enjoy sharing their knowledge, just like me, The Answer Wall.