People/Organizations to Identify
Economic and Political Developments
Places to Locate
Latin American Society
The U.S. and Latin America
100
Received 1982 Nobel Prize for literature.
Who is Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
100
Companies with divisions in more than two countries.
What are multinational corporations?
100
The largest country in South America.
What is Brazil?
100
Latin America's economic problems were made worse by.
What is dramatic increases in population?
100
The Cold War was tension that existed between what two countries? Hint one of them is the name of this category.
What are the United States and Russia?
200
Chilean poet whose real name was Lucila Godoy Alcayaga and was trained as a poet and educator.
Who is Gabriela Mistral?
200
During the 1980's, many Latin American countries came to believe that this would not help their economies.
What is borrowing more money to increase their debt?
200
The larger of the two land-locked countries in South America.
What is Bolivia?
200
The gap between the rich and the poor was.
What is enormous and growing?
200
The economic system in which the people who work the land own the land and get to reap the profits from it.
What is Communism?
300
Latin America's greates modern architect who designed some of the major building in Brasilia, Brazil.
Who is Oscar Niemeyer?
300
One of the reasons that democratic reforms happened in some Latin American countries during the 1980's.
What is the unwillingness of some military leaders to deal with debt problems?
300
The "skinniest" country in South America that had the first September 11th in 1973, in which the U.S. supported a dictator that would overthrow the democratically elected government (that Lance has talked about at length in class).
What is Chile?
300
Peasants and the urban poor struggled to just.
What is survive?
300
This organization was set up to stop countries from invading each other and interferring in each others affairs, however they have not acheived their goal.
What is Organization of American States?
400
Western Hemisphere political group.
What is the Organization of American States?
400
Name one of the three countries in the 1960's that put in place of democratic governments repressive military regimes that abolished political parties.
What are Chile, Brazil, and Argentina?
400
The country that is notorious for producing large amounts of cocaine that eventually makes its way to the U.S. (not Peru or Bolivia).
What is Colombia?
400
This brought crime and corruption to some Latin American countries.
What is the international drug trade?
400
In the book "One Hundred Years of Solitude" what two things does the author mix?
What is mixes realism and fantasy?
500
In 1992, this President/Dictator returned to Peru to and authoritarian state.
Who is President Alberto Fujimori?
500
The major export of the country of Venezuela.
What are Oil/Petroleum products?
500
The country that has Lima as the capital.
What is Peru?
500
Many women maintained the traditional role of homemakers, but some found jobs in industry by becoming.
What are teachers, professors, doctors, and lawyers?
500
Literary form that was developed in Latin America.
What is magic realism?