Acronyms from the Reading
Terms from the Reading
Colombia
Mexico
U.S. Policy
100
This is the full name of the DEA.
What is the Drug Enforcement Angency
100
Also known as "traficantes"
What are drug traffickers
100
Colombia is one of the world's largest suppliers of this illegal narcotic
What is cocaine
100
A December 2003 UN report urged Mexico to change its constitution to guarantee the protection of this.
What are human rights (specifically defendant's right to innocence until proven guilty)
100
Many critics of U.S. involvement in targeting the drug war in areas like Peru and Colombia argue that the U.S. should first place their focus in targeting this concern.
What is U.S. demand for cocaine in their own conutry
200
NAFTA, a growing closer of Mexico and the United States in 1993, in its extended form it this.
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement
200
Defined as campaigns of violence by drug cartels against civilian and government targets.
What is narcoterrorism
200
In September 2008, the U.S. captured this vehicle stuffed with seven tons of cocaine (worth around $187 million)
What is a submarine
200
Elected in 2006, President Felipe Calderon made fighting poverty and reducing this his two priorities
What is crime
200
Presidents in Venezuela and Ecuador note two negative side effects of the U.S. spraying chemicals on Colombia's drug crops as harming people's health and this
What is damage to legal crops
300
Racked by warfare waged by left wing guerillas since the 1960s, one of the main groups called FARC in its extended form is this.
What is Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
300
In 2000, this plan was intended to destroy the coca plantations in Colombia by having aircrafts spray chemicals on the plantations.
What is "Plan Colombia"
300
In 2000, this was Colombia's top export and provided 35 percent of the government's revenue
What is oil
300
At least this fraction of working-age Mexicans labor in an underground economy selling stolen or smuggles goods.
What is a quarter
300
President Chavez, of Venezuela, not only accused the U.S. ambassador of lying in the 2000s, but he also claimed that the U.S. motivations for their anti-narcotics drive was to gain this advantage in Latin America
What is a military foothold
400
Racked by warfare waged by left wing guerillas since the 1960s, one of the main groups called ELN in its extended form is this.
What is National Liberation Army
400
In Colombia frequently financed in large part by the drug trade, these right wing forces are linked to the army and therefore are considered this kind of force.
What is paramilitary
400
By early 2011, Colombia improved diplomatic relations with this country they long harbored tensions with.
What is Venezuela
400
In December 2008, the U.S. Justice Department declared this to be America's greatest organized crime threat
What are Mexican drug cartels
400
When it comes to populations such as the peasant Andean nation that resides in Bolivia, removing the capability for these individuals to sell coca leaves to drug traffickers presents this challenge.
What is income to keep the community alive.
500
Valentine's day is the ____ most popular day for sending cards (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.)
What is 2nd
500
On average men spend this many times more money than women do on Valentine's day.
What is two times
500
This profession receives the most Valentine's day cards each year
What is teachers
500
In Japan, women are expected to give chocolate and other gifts to men. Men are expected to return the favor on the 14th of this month.
What is March
500
In the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names from a bowl and displayed them in this way, ultimately leading to a popularly used phrase.
What is they wore the name on their sleeve ("wearing you heart on your sleeve"
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