Revolutions
A military and political effort to overthrow the government of Cuba between 1953 and 1959.
What is the Cuban Revolution?
A Haitian general and the most prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution.
Who is Toussaint Louverture?
This Latin American country is the world's largest producer of quinoa.
What is Peru?
This widely-known Mexican artist painted self-portraits and depictions of traditional Mexican culture in a style that combines Realism, Symbolism, and Surrealism.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
The Treaty of Paris (1898) ended this war.
What is the Spanish-American War?
An extended sequence of armed regional conflicts in Mexico from approximately 1910 to 1920.
What is the Mexican Revolution?
He ventured to the Galápagos Islands during the second voyage of HMS Beagle.
Who is Charles Darwin?
A domesticated South American camelid, widely used as a meat and pack animal by Andean cultures since the Pre-Columbian era.
What is a llama?
This Nobel prize winner penned one of the greatest modern epics written in English, Omeros (1990).
Who is Derek Walcott?
A failed attack launched by the CIA during the Kennedy administration to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961?
It gave Bolívar the economic and human resources to complete his victory over the Spanish in Venezuela and Colombia.
What is Bolívar's campaign to liberate New Granada?
Chile's dictator between 1974 and 1990.
Who is Augusto Pinochet?
The island of Jamaica produced a staggering 237,943 metric tons of ____ in 1996.
What is sugar?
Through this artistic movement, artists in Latin America found a distinctive art form that provided for political and cultural expression, often focusing on issues of social justice related to their indigenous roots.
What is Muralism?
The territories of modern-day _____ were once home to a variety of Indigenous groups that were gradually incorporated into the Inca Empire during the 15th century.
What is Ecuador?
This revolution brought freedom to some 450,000 Afro-Caribbean slaves and served as a potent symbol of liberty to millions of their fellows who remained enslaved throughout the Americas.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
She served as the First Lady from 1946 until her untimely death in 1952.
Who is Eva Perón or Evita?
With the introduction of the refrigerator ship, this fruit became an important plantation crop in Central America, Columbia, and Ecuador.
What are bananas?
This classical ballet company is based at the Great Theatre of Havana in Havana, Cuba, founded by the Cuban prima ballerina assoluta, Alicia Alonso in 1948.
What is the Cuban National Ballet?
It was founded in 1917 as the Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista Obrero, PSO) by Manabendra Nath Roy, a left-wing Indian revolutionary.
What is the Mexican Communist Party?
An armed insurrection across Brazil that ended the Old Republic.
What is the Brazillian Revolution of 1930?
Known as Doña Fela, she was the first woman to be elected as mayor in San Juan, Puerto Rico, which made her the first female mayor in the Americas.
Who is Felisa Rincón de Gautier?
What is Guatemala?
Among his works that challenged racial discrimination is the poem "If We Must Die" (1919), a call for his people to fight with determination and courage against those who would murder them.
Who is Claude McKay?
This country is engulfed in a political and economic crisis which has led to more than seven million people leaving the country since 2015.
What is Venezuela?