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| the first woman president in Chile; 2006-2010 |
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| Chilean army general who was brought to power as president in a U.S.-backed coup d'état on September 11, 1973 |
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| French engineer, prominent in the Panama Canal controversy; conspired with insurrectionists in Panama and touched off (1903) a successful revolution |
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| an Argentine Marxist revolutionary and major figure of the Cuban Revolution; leader of the July 26 Movement beginning in 1956 in order to overthrow the government of Cuba |
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| Mexican constitution of 1917 |
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| gave additional rights to the Mexican people. It was the fruit of the Revolution--an expression of popular will that guaranteed civil liberties, no presidential succession, and protection from foreign and domestic exploitation to all Mexicans |
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| Eva Duarte de Peron (Evita) |
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| second wife of President Juan Perón and served as the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952; ran the Ministries of Labor and Health, founded and ran the charitable Eva Perón Foundation, championed women's suffrage in Argentina, and founded and ran the nation's first large-scale female political party, the Female Peronist Party |
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| series of laws and diplomatic agreements, initiated by an August 1942 exchange of diplomatic notes between the United States and Mexico, for the importation of temporary contract laborers from Mexico to the United States |
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| 1898, brief conflict between Spain and the United States arising out of Spanish policies in Cuba. It was, to a large degree, brought about by the efforts of U.S. expansionists |
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| a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, which broke out in 1910, and which was initially directed against the president Porfirio Díaz. He formed and commanded an important revolutionary force, the Liberation Army of the South, during the Mexican Revolution |
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| served as president and dictator of Brazil from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 until his suicide in 1954 |
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| President of Mexico from 1934 to 1940; known for his progressive program of building roads and schools, promoting education, land reform and social security |
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| stipulated the conditions for the withdrawal of United States troops remaining in Cuba since the Spanish-American War, and defined the terms of Cuban-U.S. relations; ensured U.S. involvement in Cuban affairs, both foreign and domestic, and gave legal standing to U.S. claims to certain economic and military territories on the island including Guantanamo Bay Naval Base; 1901 |
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| soldier, politician, and president of Guatemala (1951–54) whose nationalistic economic and social reforms alienated conservative landowners, conservative elements in the army, and the U.S. government and led to his overthrow |
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| FARC or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia |
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| a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization based in Colombia, which is involved in the ongoing Colombian armed conflict; claims to represent the rural poor in a struggle against Colombia's wealthier classes, and opposes United States influence in Colombia (e.g. Plan Colombia), neo-imperialism, monopolization of natural resources by multinational corporations, and paramilitary/government violence; largest and oldest insurgent group in Americas; 1964-present |
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| President of Bolivia since 2006; first indigenous president in a country with an indigenous majority |
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| President of Venezuela; founded the left-wing Fifth Republic Movement after orchestrating a failed 1992 coup d'état against former President Carlos Andrés Pérez |
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