Economic Difficulties
Cartels
Groups of drug businesses
Industrial Revolutionary Party ( PRI )
Cuban Missile Crisis ( 1962 )
Left the world at the brink of nuclear war
He wrote " A Hundred Years of Solitude "
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
What is the name of the radical Guerrilla group that wanted a communist, classless society in Peru?
The Shining Path
Farm organizations that were opperated to benefit peasants and the lower class
Cooperatives
His dissatisfaction with the gap between the rich and the poor helped elect him as President of Brazil in 2002
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
In the 1940's, Latin American writers developed a unique form of expression called
Magic Realism
Oscar Niemeyer
Famous Brazilian architect who recreated the capital of Brasilia
Why did the U.S break diplomatic and trade relations with Cuba?
The U.S started to receive aid and resources from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
Monoculture
Dependence on several crops for Latin American colonies economic success
What country's president was a Marxist, and what was their name?
Salvador Allende
Jones Act
Legislation in 1917 that established Puerto Rico as a territory of the U.S. and gave the people U.S. citizenship
Who led the 1950's opposition movement in Cuba?
Fidel Castro
What country's government was mainly dominated and led by elite, powerful coffee plantation owners?
The Andean Pact ( 1969 ) and its goal
Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, & Chile, to spread economic growth and cooperation between its members
Who was the oppressive and corrupt dictator the Roman Catholic Church fought against in Nicaragua?
Anastasio Somoza
The ARENA Party
Group in El Salvador who battled for supremacy resulting in thousands of Salvadorans lives being taken
Manuel Noriega
Panama's military leader in the 80's who became involved in drug trade and serious problems with U.S President George W. Bush
These 3 countries had maintained severe military regimes, abolishing other political parties under financial prosperity.
Chile, Brazil, Argentina
What was the name of the state-owned oil company in Mexico that became corrupt?
Who led a civil reform movement and became president of El Salvador in the 1980s?
Jose Napoleon Duarte
All of the following were a part of the Contadora Principles:
Freeze on Arms Sales, Reduction of Foreign Military Bases, & Promotion of Negotiations Rather than Violence
Who attempted to overthrow the oligarchy in Argentina?
Juan Peron
Privateization
Mexico adapted this economic policy that government-owned companies were sold to private businesses.