mesoamerican heartland
Mexico Guatemala Honduras El-Salvador Nicaragua Costa-Rica Panama
Cuba Jamaica Haiti Dominican-Republic Puerto-Rico The Bahamas Virgin-Islands
Antigua Montserrat Guadalupe Dominica Martinique St.-Lucia
Barbados St.-Vincent Grenada Trinidad-and-Tobago Netherlands-Anitiles
Mexico, its neighbors, and the caribbean islands created untold wealth for others in the modern era and navigated a variety of paths to independence.
