Name That Country
Drugs, Violence, & Political Problems
Geography
History
Economics & Randomness
100
A former Portuguese colony, it has the largest population and highest GDP of any country in Latin America.
What is Brazil?
100
Drug cartels use Central America as a staging grounds to ship drugs grown primarily in these two countries to Mexico and eventually the United States.
What are Colombia and Venezuela?
100
Similar to the United States, the majority of the population live in these areas of Latin America.
What are the coasts?
100
The policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.
What is colonialism?
100
In recent years, all countries in Latin America have adopted this system of government...except for Cuba.
What is democracy?
200
It's the most populous Spanish-speaking country in the world and, along with the United States and Canada, a member of the trade community NAFTA.
What is Mexico?
200
Honduras has the highest murder rate in the world. The level of violence is this type of factor, meaning it makes people want to leave.
What is a "push" factor?
200
The Inca, who lived in the highlands of the Andes Mountains, developed this agricultural technique to prevent water runoff and improve yields.
What is terrace farming?
200
When the Spanish wiped out the entire indigenous population of Hispanola (Cuba & the Dominican Republic) through disease and brutality, they began importing these to serve as workers.
What are slaves?
200
Cuba has one of the highest life expectancies in Latin America at roughly 78 years. This can be partly explained by its free, government-provided health care, a key part of this type of economic system to which it adheres.
What is communism?
300
Named in honor of a hero of the Latin American independence movement, it is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the region and also one of the poorest.
What is Bolivia?
300
In Mexico, drug cartels have often displaced governments at the local level, thereby becoming the de-facto authority. One way they do this is through paying officials to ignore their illegal activities, which shows this widespread governmental problem in Latin America.
What is corruption?
300
The Amazon Rain Forest is an example of this type of region because it's based on a physical characteristic.
What is a formal region?
300
The George Washington of Mexico, this priest led the rebellion against Spain until his capture and eventual execution in 1811.
Who is Miguel Hidalgo (y Costilla)?
300
As part of the Columbian Exchange, Europeans brought to the Americas, among other things, bananas and this aromatic bean, which is usually brewed into a drink.
What is coffee?
400
It has one of the largest oil reserves in the world and moved towards socialism under the leadership of Hugo Chavez, who died in 2013.
What is Venezuela?
400
All strong democracies have this three-word phrase, which means that laws are enforced even-handedly and apply to everyone (even the president).
What is rule of law?
400
Deforestation, the cutting down of trees to use the cleared land for other purposes, has many devastating environmental effects. One of them is increased levels of these global warming-causing agents in the atmosphere.
What are greenhouse gases?
400
When the Spanish colonized the Americas beginning in the 1500's, they established this rigid system of racial hierarchy wherever they settled.
What is the casta, or caste system?
400
The gap between the rich and poor in Latin America is wider than anywhere in the world, which illustrates this math-related concept.
What is (income) inequality?
500
A Caribbean twin-island nation with an alliterative name, it's the birthplace of Calypso music.
What is Trinidad and Tobago?
500
In the United States, the president gives press conferences frequently to inform the American public about policy decisions. In many Latin American countries, however, the government never addresses the people, which shows a "clear" lack of this word.
What is transparency?
500
Commonplace in Brazil, these slum regions have many problems, including high crime.
What are favelas?
500
Meaning "hit against the state" in French, the US helped organize one against the left-leaning leader of Guatemala in 1953.
What is a coup d'etat?
500
A social and economic system characterized by social ownership of the means of production and co-operative management of the economy
What is socialism?
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