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These sanctioned pirates would work for certain countries, like Great Britain and France, to help them acquire land in the new world.
What are privateers?
This country, that is the richest and most influential in Central America, gets half of its income from a certain waterway.
What is Panama?
This Cuban dictator allowed Americans and American corporations to "poison and pervert" Cuba because all he really cared about was money.
Who was Fulgencio Batista?
These people tend to be the richest in Cuba.
Who are farmers?
This is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
What is Haiti?
The United States' favorite coffee comes from this country.
What is Colombia?
This country is home to tropical rainforests, Mayan ruins, the Great Blue Hole, and the second largest barrier reef in the world.
These are Cuba's top three exports.
What are rum, coffee, and cigars?
This American politician opened trade and travel between the United States and Cuba.
Who is Barack Obama?
He is nicknamed the George Washington of Latin America.
Who was Simon Bolivar?
In relation to cruise ships, what causes algal blooms?
What is sewage dumping?
This country is one of the poorest in Central America due to a recent civil war and a lot of drug violence.
What is Guatemala?
This agreement the United States forced Cuba to sign allowed the U.S. to meddle in Cuban affairs.
What was the Platt Amendment?
These people, who tend to be very conservative, have a lot of money and political power, and do not wish their country of origin well.
Who are Cuban Exiles?
These two countries are where the most peninsulares and creoles went.
What are Argentina and Uruguay?
This dense and dangerous jungle between Panama and Columbia is the reason why you cannot drive from North America to South America.
What is the Darien Gap?
This Central American country's landscape is full of volcanoes and calderas.
What is El Salvador
This former American paratrooper hated nothing more than dictators and communists.
Who was William Morgan?
This American operation that was meant to create the illusion that Cubans were uprising against Fidel Castro was an embarrassing failure for the United States.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
This is the type of agriculture that is ruining the rainforest in South America.
What is slash and burn agriculture?
These four things that Ping talked about came from the new world (the Americas) and were sent to the old world (Europe + Asia).
What were potatoes, tomatoes, tobacco, and syphilis?
This country got rid of its military and instead invests that money into social infrastructure, making it the "most successful Central American country."
What is Costa Rica?
The explosion of this ship in Havana Harbor was the United States' reasoning for helping Cuba gain its independence from Spain.
What is the USS Maine?
This is the most famous Cuban restaurant in the world.
What is Versailles?
Immigration isn't a big issue between these three countries because they all used to be part of the same country and the people there are ethnically the same.
What are Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela?