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SIGNATURE THOMAS F. MCDONOUGH
TITLE VICE PRESIDENT
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This schedule contains summary financial information extracted from The
Latin America Dollar Income Fund Annual Report for the fiscal year ended October
31, 1996 and is qualified in its entirety by reference to such financial
statements.
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160 Federal Street Telephone 617 439 4390
Boston, MA 02110
Price Waterhouse LLP
December 17, 1996
To the Board of Directors of
Latin America Dollar Income Fund, Inc.
In planning and performing our audit of the financial statements of Latin
America Dollar Income Fund, Inc. (the "Fund") for the year ended October 31,
1996, we considered its internal control structure, including procedures for
safeguarding securities, in order to determine our auditing procedures for the
purposes of expressing our opinion on the financial statements and to comply
with requirements of Form N-SAR, and not to provide assurance on the internal
control structure.
The management of the Fund is responsible for establishing and maintaining an
internal control structure. In fulfilling this responsibility, estimates and
judgments by management are required to assess the expected benefits and related
costs of internal control structure policies and procedures. Two of the
objectives of an internal control structure are to provide management with
reasonable, but not absolute, assurance that assets are safeguarded against loss
from unauthorized use or disposition and that transactions are executed in
accordance with management's authorization and recorded properly to permit
preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted
accounting principles.
Because of inherent limitations in any internal control structure, errors or
irregularities may occur and not be detected. Also, projection of any evaluation
of the structure to future periods is subject to the risk that it may become
inadequate because of changes in conditions or that the effectiveness of the
design and operation may deteriorate.
Our consideration of the internal control structure would not necessarily
disclose all matters in the internal control structure that might be material
weaknesses under standards established by the American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants. A material weakness is a condition in which the design or
operation of the specific internal control structure elements does not reduce to
a relatively low level the risk that errors or irregularities in amounts that
would be material in relation to the financial statements being audited may
occur and not be detected within a timely period by employees in the normal
course of performing their assigned functions. However, we noted no matters
involving the internal controls structure, including procedures for safeguarding
securities, that we consider to be material weaknesses as defined above as of
October 31, 1996.
This report is intended solely for the information and use of management and the
Securities and Exchange Commission.
/s/Price Waterhouse LLP
