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noun

Pan-American Congress n. Any of several meetings of delegates from various American states; esp.:

(a)

One held in 1889-90 in the United States, at which all the independent states except Santo Domingo were represented and of which the practical result was the establishment of the Bureau of American Republics for the promotion of trade relations.

(b)

One held in Mexico in 1901-1902.

(c)

One held at Rio de Janeiro in 1906.

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... of the agitation for some way to deal with the overproduction of coffee, the Pan-American Congress, meeting in Mexico City in 1902, called an international coffee congress for New York in the fall of that same year. It met from October 1 to October 30; but at the close, the problem seemed no nearer solution than at the beginning. In 1906, Brazil produced its record-breaking crop of ...

— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers