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De Torre, though, was right about something; the now popular name of Latin America was invented in Paris. In the 1850s, expat writers Chilean Francisco Bilbao and Colombian José María Torres Caicedo first used it. The latter also coined the label literatura latinoamericana in 1879
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Alvaro Santana-Acuña (Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic)