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Terms
100
Associated with the drug cartels involving assassination, kidnapping and terrorizing the local population.
What is narcoterrorism?
100
1948 postwar international organization that promotes hemispheric cooperation between the US and Latin American nations.
What is the OAS?
100
Hugo Chavez, Anti-American and Pro-Castro leader of this S. American nation.
What is Venezuela?
100
Archbishop Romero's assassination triggered a bloody civil war in this Cen. American country during the 1980s.
What is El Salvador?
100
Extreme inflation unleashed upon the Argentine economy.
What was hyperinflation?
200
Describes the economic disparity between the wealthy elite and poor people in Latin America.
What is the wealth gap?
200
President Kennedy's 1960s program to assist many Latin American nations offering foreign aid and economic development.
What was the Alliance for Progress?
200
Elected leader of Chile violently overthrown by a junta led by General Pinochet.
Who was Allende?
200
American military operation carried out to remove the Panamanian dictator Noriega from power in 1989.
What was Operation Just Cause?
200
Process of turning over govt. owned industries to businessmen in Mexico.
What is privatization?
300
Large cities with 10 million or more inhabitants living in overcrowded conditions and impoverished areas called barrios.
What are megacities?
300
Free trade agreement between the US, Canada and Mexico.
What is NAFTA?
300
Alberto Fujimori once elected became dictatorial in this S. American country during the 1980s and was opposed by the Shinning Path guerrilla group.
What was Peru?
300
Anti-communist guerrilla army supported by the CIA during the Reagan administration in Nicaragua.
What were the Contras?
300
NAFTA, Mercosur and CARICOM are examples of this economic group.
What are trade blocs?
400
Type of corporations that have been accused of exploitation of resources and people leading to neocolonialism.
What are multinational corporations?
400
Plaza area in Mexico City that reflects Spanish and Native-American architecture.
What is the Zocalo?
400
He became the first elected Mexican president from an opposition party in 2000.
Who was Vicente Fox?
400
S. American country heavily engaged in manufacturing belongs to this economic group.
What is Brazil?
400
After Castro became a friend of the Soviet Union the US punished his country with this economic measure for years.
What is a trade embargo?
500
After years of military dictatorships political participation is finally allowed by voting.
What is democratic elections?
500
Both Edwards and Marquez reflected this new Latin American literary style in their novels.
What is Magic Realism?
500
Sandinista leader of Nicaragua once backed by Castro and the Soviet Union.
Who is Daniel Ortega?
500
War fought between Argentina and Britain over a group of islands in the S. Atlantic.
What was the Falklands War?
500
Coffee, bananas and other agricultural commodities sold overseas as part of international trade.
What are exports?