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| The free trade agreement among Mexico, Canada, and the United States |
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| Men who have often taken over Latin American governments |
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| Major social and economic problem of Latin America |
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| The rapid growth of this worsens social and economic problems. |
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| Latin American governments faced disaster in the 1980s when they could not repay these. |
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| Destruction of this environment affects the entire world. |
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| Common Latin American need to help build industries |
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| Growing demand for these often causes violent protest. |
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| social and economic reforms |
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| Small group, often of military officers, that overthrows a democratic government |
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| The U.S. often intervened when it feared this type of takeover in a Latin American gov't. |
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| Two common crops of one-crop countries |
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| Breaking up of large estates and distribution of land to peasants |
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| Latin American countries had to pay much higher prices for these as of the late 1970s. |
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| imports (oil and agricultural chemicals) |
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| Commodity whose rise in price staggered many Latin American economies |
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| Latin American countries received much less for these starting in the late 1970s. |
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| Assembly plants along Mexico's northern border |
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| Inter-American organization founded in 1948 |
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| the Organization of American States (OAS) |
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| Aid project to promote Latin American development process |
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| the Alliance for Progress |
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| Class that paid few taxes |
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| Where wealthy Latin Americans preferred to invest their funds |
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| Inter-American agreement - no state has the right to intervene in another state's affairs |
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| Country that took over a waterway in 1999 |
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| Production of this boosted Mexico's economy in the 1970s. |
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| Site of a disastrous Mexican earthquake in 1985 |
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| Area of Panama formerly controlled by the United States |
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| Panama's military leader, tried in the United States for drug trafficking |
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| Country invaded by U.S. forces in 1989 |
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| Large country with a long record of elected presidents |
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| Rebels who overthrew the Nicaraguan government in 1979 |
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| Rebels who opposed the new, 1980s government of Nicaragua |
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| Cuba and the Soviet Union supported this side in the 1980s El Salvador fighting. |
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| Sandinista leader elected president of Nicaragua in 1984 and defeated in 1990 |
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| Nicaraguan contras established guerrilla bases in this country. |
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| First president of Mexico since 1929 not from the PRI party, elected in 2000 |
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| Winner of 1987 Nobel Peace Prize for his Central American peace initiative |
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| Oscar Arias Sanchez of Costa Rica |
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| Civilian leader of El Salvador's government in the 1980s |
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| New name of British Honduras as of 1993 |
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| Country that endured a thirty-year civil war that tapered off in the 1990s |
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| Nicaragua's ruling family from the 1930s to 1979 |
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| Neutral nation with an orderly succession of democratic governments since 1974 |
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| Peasant rebels have caused turmoil in this southern Mexican state. |
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| The United States helped to overthrow this country's liberal government in the 1950s. |
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| President and dictator of Argentina |
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| First democratically elected Marxist leader in the Western Hemisphere |
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| U.S. group accused of being involved in Allende's overthrow |
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| Argentina went to war with Great Britain in 1982 over these islands. |
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| Brazil moved its capital to Brasilia to help develop this area. |
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| By 1970, most Brazilians lived in these areas. |
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| The army of this large country rebelled against a leftist government in 1964. |
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| Country that had a Marxist president |
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| Deadly disease that became an epidemic in the early 1990s |
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| Juan Peron's wives who helped him rule |
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| First female president in the Western Hemisphere |
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| Los desaparecidos of Argentina |
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| Country that connects South America with Central America |
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| South American member of OPEC |
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| Countries terrorized by their drug lords |
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| Country whose army fought the Tupamaros guerrillas |
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| Argentina's Spanish name for the Falklands |
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| Brazilian city; major industrial center of South America |
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| Military leader who succeeded Allende in Chile |
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| Leftist guerrilla group of Peru |
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| the Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) |
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| Paraguay's military leader from 1954 to 1989 |
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| General Alfredo Stroessner |
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| Cuba's revolutionary leader |
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| Caribbean island with a communist government |
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| The U.S.S.R. removed these weapons from Cuba in 1962. |
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| Cuba tried to export this throughout Latin America. |
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| Center of Cuban exile settlement in the United States |
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| Target city for Puerto Rican immigration into the United States |
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| Natural disasters that periodically devastate the islands |
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| Cuban communist revolutionary leader; close associate of Castro |
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| Cuba's close ally and aid-giver |
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| Cuba took over all of these businesses in 1961. |
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| Cuban coastal area invaded in 1961 |
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| Self-governing U.S. territory in the Caribbean |
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| Country that voted in 1967 to remain a commonwealth |
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| Troops from this country landed in the Dominican Republic in 1965. |
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| Haiti's president and dictator from 1957 to 1971 |
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| Francois Duvalier (Papa Doc) |
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| Duvalier's successor in 1971; ousted in 1986 |
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| Jean-Claude Duvalier (Baby Doc) |
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| Country where U.S. and U.N. troops kept order in the 1990s |
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| Country invaded in 1983 by the United States and troops from six Caribbean nations |
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| Dictator of Cuba before the revolution |
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| Cuban troops fought in this southern African nation's civil war |
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| The massive exodus of Cubans to the United States in 1980 |
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