World Leaders
This was the name of the leader who led the Cuban Revolution in 1952. He defeated a CIA led coup at the Bay of Pigs.
Who is Fidel Castro?
This was the name of the American company that owned the majority of Guatemala and Honduras in the 20th century
What is the United Fruit Company
This was the main resource Cuba relied on before the Cuban Revolution. Fidel Castro nationalized this industry, angering the United States.
What is the surgercane (or sugar) industry.
This is the main difference between a migrant and a immigrant.
A migrant moves to the United States for a set period of time but intends to return to his or her home country. An immigrant moves to the United States intending to become a citizen and perminantlu residing there.
This is the name of the remote stretch of rainforest located between Colombia and Panama that migrants must pass through on their way to the US-Mexican border.
What is the Darién Gap?
This was the name of the leader of Guatemala who was overthrown by the CIA in a 1954 coup
Who is Jacobo Árbenz
These are the two most prevalent gangs in the Northern Triangle.
What is MS-13 and Barrio-18
This is a name of a common Venezuelan prison gang.
What is Tren de Aragua
This is the main difference between an asylum seeker and a refugee.
Both asylum seekers and refugees leave their home countries because of liniment danger or hardship. A refugee is guaranteed permeant resident status in the US and cannot be returned to his or her home country. An asylum seeker desires refugee status but their asylum application may be denied and they can be sent back to his or her home country.
Outside of President Trump’s current usage of the Enemies Alien Act, when and why was this law last used?
WW2, 1940s, used by President Franklin Roosevelt to place Japanese-American citizens in interment camps.
This is the name of the first socialist leader of Venezuela. He died of cancer in 2013.
Who is Hugo Chavez
This is the the term for when a country with a lot of natural resources becomes reliant on that resource to sustain their economy. This resource rich country ends up having problems like poverty, corruption, or slow economic growth instead of becoming richer.
What is resource disease (also will accept resource curse or Dutch disease)
This is the term for when one country, like the U.S., stops trading with another country, like Cuba, to try to make it change its government or actions.
What is an embargo
This is the term for the hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign
What us xenophobia
This country has an open-door migration policy and accepted the more than 4 million displaced Venezuelans since 2013. It provides Venezuelans with intern citizenship rights, free education, and healthcare.
What is Colombia.
This is the name of the Honduran president overthrown in a 2009 coup. Their are reports the American CIA was involved or at least aware of his overthrow.
Who is Manuel Zelaya
This was the name of the American CIA operation in 1954 caused the overthrow of Guatemala's president, leading to violence and instability that made many people leave the country and seek safety elsewhere.
What is Operation PBSUCCESS.
This is the type of government in Cuba
What is communist (or communism)
This is the name of a law from 1798 that allows the U.S. government to arrest or deport people from enemy countries during wartime. President Trump has been using it to immediately deport asylum seekers who have been identified as part of gangs like MS-13 or Tren de Aragua.
What is the Enemy Alien Act
President Trump gave gangs like MS-13 and Tren de Arauga this designation, which allowed him to immediately deport migrants under the Alien Enemies Act.
What are foreign terrorist organizations.
The United State recognized this person as the democratically elected leader of Venezuela in 2019, causing current Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro to sever relations with the U.S.
Who is Juan Guaidó.
This is the name of the president who established CECOT.
Who is Nayib Bukele
Venezuelan migrants suspected of membership in Tren de Aragua are currently deported to these two prisons (one is in Cuba, the other one is in El Salvador, what are the names of these prisons)
What is Guantanamo Bay (Cuba) or GitMo and CECOT (El Salvador).
This was the name of the rule the U.S. added to Cuba’s new government in 1901 that let the U.S. control some of Cuba’s decisions and keep a military base there, which made many Cubans upset.
What is the Platt Amendment.
Many Venezuelans are leaving this country and coming to the United States due to the high cost of living and xenophobia.
What is Chile