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The cocaine kingpin of Colombia and leader of the Medellin Cartel.
Who is Pablo Escobar?
This art form took off with artists like Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, which focused on adding elements of fantasy to real life images.
What is "Magical Realism?"
This event involved the US government selling missiles to Iran to fund allies in Nicaragua.
What is the Contra Affair?
The large South American country is known for its festivals & carnivals, as well as speaking Portuguese?
Where is Brazil?
This is a form of government where money and private ownership of property are key.
What is Capitalism?
The leader of the Communist Revolution for Cuba, who ruled from the late 1950s to 2008.
Who is Fidel Castro?
Located on the border of Peru & Bolivia, this funny sounding lake is the lake which also holds the highest elevation.
Where is "Lake Titicaca?"
This 1959 revolution brought Communism within 90 miles of US shores, to an island country.
What is The Cuban Revolution?
This large Latin American country is just South of the USA & was the home to Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman and his Sinaloa cartel.
Where is Mexico?
The form of government where the government owns all property and manufacturing is known as this.
What is Communist/Communism?
The Narco leader and terrorist currently being held in the "Alcatraz of the Rockies."
Who is "El Chapo?"
These armed groups traffic people, guns, and drugs illegally, using violence and intimidation to maintain their power and control.
Who are "Cartels?"
This event nearly brought the world to a nuclear end between the USA & The Soviet Union.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This country was home to Pablo Escobar, and was at one point the cocaine and murder capitol of the world in the 1980s.
Where is Colombia?
This is when a country uses its power and resources to control, dominate, and influence other countries.
What is "Imperialism?"
Who is Che Guervera?
This is the term for payments from immigrants back to their home countries.
What are "Remittance Payments?"
This was the conflict begun around the the trade and usage of illegal substances, started by Richard Nixon and his creation of the DEA.
What is The War on Drugs?
Which two countries colonized central and South America?
Where are Portugal and Spain?
This is the theoretical "countdown" to the end of the world, that the journal of Atomic scientists publishes updates with every year.
What is "The Doomsday Clock?"
American President who worked with Communist leaders to prevent the Cuban Missile Crisis from spiraling out of control.
Who is John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
The name for Spanish and Portuguese colonizers born on the European continent.
What are Peninsulars?
This is the title of the 1973 overthrow of fifty years of Chilean democracy.
What is the Pinochet Coup?
This country is famous for its beef exports, and was once allied with the USA with their dictator.
Where is Argentina?
What is the term for military strongmen and dictators who rose to power and maintained it, through force?
What is a "Caudillo?"