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* ''WesternAnimation/TheMummy: [[RecycledTheSeries The Animated Series]]''

* ''VideoGame/JaggedAlliance2'' takes place in one of these, a fictional MicroMonarchy called Arulco whose exact location in Central or South America is somewhat vague. It used to be a poor but stable constitutional monarchy until the heir to the throne's new bride turned out to be an unusually literal GoldDigger, deposing her husband and turning the country into a brutal dictatorship in order to profit from the gold and silver deposits that had recently been discovered in most of the country. The player's job is to lead a team of mercenaries hired by the rightful king to serve her with divorce papers etched onto a bullet.

* Parodied in ''Series/TheBoys'' with Homelander acting like Hispanic American Supersonic is Mexican despite him saying he's not, talking to him in Spanish and serving tacos at Supersonic's first meeting. It is not entirely clear if Homelander is ignorant, racist, bullying Supersonic as a proxy for his OldFlame Starlight, or a decent mix of all three.

* The Creator/FoxNewsChannel got into some trouble when it aired a report on the Central American refugee crisis in March 2019. The offending graphic mentioned that [[https://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-central-america-mistake-chyron-three-mexican-countries-immigration-1381053 "[President] Trump cuts U.S. aid to three Mexican countries."]]

[[CulturalBlending One big country]] with different names at best, where temperature is warm all year round, air has a yellow tinge, buildings are old and rustic, [[ChristianityIsCatholic Christianity really is Catholic]], and everyone is dirt poor outside of TheCartel and the [[TheNapoleon petty]] [[TheGeneralissimo military dictator]] whose megalomania is [[SmallNameBigEgo inversely proportional]] to the actual power of his armies ([[DamnedByFaintPraise still beats]] [[DarkestAfrica life in]] [[{{Bulungi}} Africa]], though). Where the [[LatinoIsBrown universally brown]] population is made of TallDarkAndHandsome [[LatinLover Latin Lovers]], [[SpicyLatina feisty well-figured women]], simple but [[MagnificentMoustachesOfMexico magnificently moustached men]], [[StreetUrchin Street Urchins]], and more [[ForeignCorrespondent American]] missionaries, doctors, scientists and naive tourists than you can shake an M16 at. Also a good place to find great big wildlife, be it of Earth origin ([[MisplacedWildlife American or not]]) or extra-terrestrial.

* ''Theatre/{{Florodora}}'' presents an even more stereotypically-Latin Philippine setting[[note]]perhaps mixed with a bit of proto-HulaAndLuaus, the titular island having a lush, tropical, flowery, almost ''Theatre/SouthPacific''-esque character[[/note]], with many of the local girls, including Dolores, the lead, having typically Hispanic names and explicitly described as "Spanish Girls" in the script, even if there's an even chance they could have native Filipino blood.

If you mix this trope with a shot of TropicalIslandAdventure, you get UsefulNotes/{{Cuba}}, the UsefulNotes/DominicanRepublic and UsefulNotes/PuertoRico, and if you add a strong dose of WelcomeToTheCaribbeanMon to that, you get UsefulNotes/{{Haiti}}. If you mix it with a shot of HolidayInCambodia and/or EastIndies, and substitute basketball for UsefulNotes/TheBeautifulGame, you'll get something like the UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}}, though for what it's worth, that country is mixed with ''so many and so disparate cultural influences''—owing to nearly 500 years of Western colonialism more pervasive than almost any other country in its region—that it's a challenge to even represent ''at all'', let alone accurately, in most media; for one, almost all its ancient structures are [[ChristianityIsCatholic Catholic churches]]. Because of this, among other reasons, the country comes off as looking like Asia's own special piece of Latin Land.

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* ''Literature/OneHundredYearsOfSolitude'', written by an author who actually comes from Colombia, is set in a unnamed BananaRepublic with all the trappings (dictatorships, rebels, old decrepit towns, and an actual banana plantation) plus AnAesop about why capitalism is bad.
** Actually those vague descriptions fit with pretty much all Latin American countries -- except of course, the dictatorships which were common back in the time García Marquez wrote the book but not anymore. Gabriel García Marquez was certainly trying to appeal to all such nations.
** Actually no, it is just Colombia. The geographical location of Macondo is quite specific: South of La Guajira, passing Cienga. Macondo is just Aracataca with another name. If you want this trope by Garcia Marquez then you have to check ''Literature/TheAutumnOfThePatriarch''.
** The setting and lifestyle of Macondo fits pretty well most rather small towns in the South American Amazonian areas, especially in the times it was written. For example, in the extensive Bolivian Amazonia (different from the Bolivian Andean areas and valleys, where there are {{Mayincatec}}), it used to be common to joke about extraordinary events and anecdotes by describing the town in question as "another Macondo". However, that doesn't apply to the totality of the Latin American Countries, not even countries as whole.

* Played for laughs with Catalina's unnamed native country in ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'', which is made of whatever over the top stereotypes about Latin America the writers have in mind in the moment.
** In an example of NegativeContinuity, Catalina angrily told Joy that she was not Mexican when she called her that, but was later deported to Mexico (the SouthOfTheBorder version) when she was discovered to be an illegal immigrant. A green card marriage later, she appeared on TV where she was said to be from La Paz, Bolivia.

* Parodied in ''Series/TheBoys'' with Homelander acting like Hispanic American Supersonic is Mexican despite him saying he's not, talking to him in Spanish and serving tacos at Supersonic's first meeting. It is not entirely clear if Homelander is ignorant, racist, proxy-bullying Supersonic to get back at Supersonic's NewOldFlame and Homelander's main rival Starlight, or a decent mix of all three.

* Parodied in ''Series/TheBoys'' with Homelander acting like Hispanic American Supersonic is Mexican despite him saying he's not, talking to him in Spanish and serving tacos at Supersonic's first meeting. It is not entirely clear if Homelander is ignorant, racist, proxy-bullying Supersonic to get back at Supersonic's OldFlame and Homelander's main rival Starlight, or a decent mix of all three.

[[CulturalBlending One big country]] with different names at best, where the temperature is warm all year round, the buildings are old and rustic, [[ChristianityIsCatholic Christianity really is Catholic]], and everyone is dirt poor outside of TheCartel and the [[TheNapoleon petty]] [[TheGeneralissimo military dictator]] whose megalomania is [[SmallNameBigEgo inversely proportional]] to the actual power of his armies ([[DamnedByFaintPraise still beats]] [[DarkestAfrica life in]] [[{{Bulungi}} Africa]], though). Where the [[LatinoIsBrown universally brown]] population is made of TallDarkAndHandsome [[LatinLover Latin Lovers]], [[SpicyLatina feisty well-figured women]], simple but [[MagnificentMoustachesOfMexico magnificently moustached men]], [[StreetUrchin Street Urchins]], and more [[ForeignCorrespondent American]] missionaries, doctors, scientists and naive tourists than you can shake an M16 at. Also a good place to find great big wildlife, be it of Earth origin ([[MisplacedWildlife American or not]]) or extra-terrestrial.

* Parodied in ''Series/TheBoys'' with Homelander acting like the new Hispanic superhero Supersonic is Mexican despite him saying he's not, talking to him in Spanish and serving tacos at Supersonic's first meeting. It is not entirely clear if Homelander is actually ignorant, racist, bullying Supersonic as a proxy for Supersonic's OldFlame and Homelander's rival Starlight, or a decent mix of all three.

* ''Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}'', a number of occasions.
* ''Series/{{Airwolf}}''
* ''Series/TheSentinel''

* The new show "Off The Map" begins- Somewhere in South America.

* Part of the joke in ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice'', where one of the [[Throwaway Country throw away foreign locations]] is the Panama Canal. All the natives are brown skinned, moustached, and dark haired, wearing stereotypical "Hispanic" dresses including a donkey driver in Mexican poncho and sombrero. They speak [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign Spanish-sounding gibberish]] with the only intelligible bit being ''no me gusta!'' ("I don't like it!") when [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction they die in a flood]].

* The Creator/StevenSeagal direct-to-video vehicle ''Submerged'', alledgely set in Uruguay but filmed [[CaliforniaDoubling in Bulgaria]]. The background jumps from using the Argentinian flag to the Uruguayan and back again as if they were one and the same, and a Mayan temple in a jungle supposely near Montevideo appears at one point[[note]]For the record, Uruguay doesn't even have jungles, it's mostly plains and it's climate is temperate. Besides, its territory wasn't part of any Amerindian empire[[/note]].

See also: [[UsefulNotes/LatinAmerica Useful Notes On Latin America]]. Compare {{Spexico}}.

* Invoked and subverted in [[https://notalwaysright.com/puerto-rico-and-mexico-are-different-places/218188/ this]] story on ''Website/NotAlwaysLearning'', where a Latina Spanish teacher (who is a Mexican Catholic), expects the one Latina student in her class (a Puerto Rican Protestant) to know about and celebrate Dia de Los Muertos. Of course, she doesn’t, as the Day of the Dead is a uniquely Mexican holiday tied to the Catholic All Saint’s Day; and Mexico and Puerto Rico have completely different histories and cultures.

* Invoked and subverted in [[https://notalwaysright.com/puerto-rico-and-mexico-are-different-places/218188/ this]] story on ''Website/NotAlwaysLearning'', where a Latina Spanish teacher (who is a Mexican Catholic), expects the one Latina student in her class (a Puerto Rican Protestant) to know about and celebrate Dia de Los Muertos. Of course, she doesn’t, as the Day of the Dead is a uniquely Mexican holiday tied to the Catholic All Saint’s Day.

* ''WesternAnimation/CarmenSandiego'' features an episode in Ecuador, including a trip to the mountaintop capital of Quito.

* The state of Paraquat, in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal. Described as having jungle at one end where it borders Tezuma, then mountains, then wide rolling ''pampas'' plains which run on into land variously described as [[UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} the Steppes]] or [[{{Eagleland}} the Prairies]] depending on whose atlas you are looking at, and formetly a colonial outpost of [[UsefulNotes/{{Spain}} Toleda]]. This is an all-inclusive Latin Land. It is of course benevolently ruled by TheGeneralissimo, currently Augusto Richochet.