Latin American Gov
This is the type of government all Latin American Countries used to have
What is a dictatorship/ autocracy?
This is the ocean innocent Africans were taken across to the new world
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This was the first European explorer to sail to the new world
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This country used to control Cuba before it became its own country
What is Spain?
This is a major issue for Latin America
What is poverty, drugs, and the cartel?
This is the voting age in Mexico
What is 18?
This continent is where most enslaved peoples came from
What is Africa?
This was the religion taken to Latin America
What is Roman Catholicism?
This is something good that came from Cuba's government after Bastista was overthrown
What is better education and healthcare?
This plant, coca, makes this highly addictive and illegal drug
What is cocaine?
This is the only Latin American country with an autocracy today
What is Cuba?
This is where African slaves were taken in Latin America to work
What are haciendas?
These are the languages that were spread to Latin America
What is Spanish and Portuguese?
This was former president/ dictator of Cuba before he was overthrown
Who is Fulgencio Batista?
This is a way for Latin American citizens to escape poverty in Latin America
What is making/ selling illegal drugs to other countries?
This is the voting age in Brazil
What is 16?
Name 1 European country that took Africans to be enslaved in Latin America
What are Spain and Portugal?
This is something bad brought over to Latin America
What are diseases and enslaved people?
This country gave Cuba nuclear missiles, which almost started WW3
What is the Soviet Union?
These people are who control the drug trade in Latin America, using violence to control
Who is the cartel?
This is the type of government most Latin American countries use
What are democracies?
Name 2 conditions Africans suffered while on the slave ships
What is being crammed together, being stripped naked, given little food, and taken from their families?
This is the type of language the Latin American languages are
What are romance languages?
This is who made Cuba's government into a communist government and was dictator for decades in Cuba
Who was Fidel Castro?
This US president started the war on Drugs
Who was Richard Nixon?