Cuban Revolution
What is Cuba's main crop?
sugarcane
What is the largest island in Caribbean?
Cuba
What should Latin American countries invest in to combat poverty?
Human resources (education)
What two instruments are used in Cuban music?
African drums and Spanish guitars
The amount of people in a country that can read and write.
literacy rate
Name 2 good things that Fidel Castro did for his people.
Free education & free healthcare
Fidel Castro lied to the US. What was that lie?
Fidel Castro said that he was going to remove the dictator from power and turn Cuba into a democracy.
What does the coca plant produce?
Cocaine
Haiti and the Dominican Republic share an island. Which 2 countries colonized this island?
France and Spain
The U.S. imposed an ___________ against Cuba in retaliation of it turning into a Communist country.
embargo
Castro used guerrilla warfare (small groups of people) to overthrow which dictator from power?
Fulgencio Batista
Why did the Soviet Union want to become allies with Cuba?
Cuba's location was close to the United States.
El Chapo was a drug lord from what country?
Mexico
What two countries make up the Iberian Peninsula?
Portugal and Spain
The Sinoloan ____________ sells drugs all over the world.
cartel
Who is the dictator of Cuba today?
Raul Castro
The Soviet Union agreed to remove its missiles from Cuba after the U.S. agreed to remove its missiles from which country?
Turkey
Pablo Escobar was drug lord from what country?
Colombia
In what year did Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution take place?
1959
Due to the drug cartels, Luna ___________ (left Nicaragua to live in the US for a better job).
emigrated
Many Cubans today are a blend of Spanish and Africans. What's another word for this mixture?
Mulatto
Who was arrested at the Bay of Pigs?
Former Cuban exiles who tried to invade Cuba and remove Fidel Castro from power.
Why does Cuba have a high literacy rate, but a low GDP?
The government controls its command economy.
Which Latin American country is a territory of the United States and could become a state in the future?
Puerto Rico
Juancho was born in Mexico, but he has just completed his application for _________________ to become a legal citizen of the U.S.
naturalization