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| The colonial era in most of Latin America lasted approximately how many centuries? |
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| Which of the following was NOT one of the Spanish conquistadores in the Americas? |
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| The highest ranking colonial official was the Spanish ___ appointed by the crown? |
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| In Spanish America, government offices were generally reserved for which group of people? |
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| The British Crown had greater economic expectations and need than the spanish. |
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| The Spanish differed from their British counterparts in ALL BUT WHICH of the following ways |
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| According to a sermon given by Anton de Montesinos on the island of Hispaniola in 1510, the Spaniards, because of their relationship with the Indians, |
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| Most of the independence movements launched in 1810-1811 |
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| Brazil's royalists were unhappy with independencies because it deprived them of a monarchy |
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| Which of the following were NOT true? |
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| All but which of the following was a leader of an independence movement in Latin America? |
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| Which of the following were NOT part of the power structure left ini place after independence? |
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| Which corresponds most closely to D'Agostino's, Zagorski's, and Blake's use of the term "caudillo"? |
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| According to Blake, the most important events that triggered Latin America's independence movements took place primarily in what country? |
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| The three decades following independence of the former Spanish colonies were characterized by what? |
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| One example of an "order and progress" dictator discussed by D' Agostino is who in Mexico? |
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| Most Latin American political regimes were forced to choose either to try to incorporate or to brutally supress the growing ___ movements beginning in some places around the turn of the century, but becoming much more important in the 1930's. |
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| D'Agostino discusses examples of revolutionary change in several countries, which of the following is NOT one of the countries. |
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| The term autogolpe (self-coup) referring to an elected president closing the other branches of government and ruling as a dictator, sometimes with the support of the military, is most closely associated with which of the following countries in the 1990's. |
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| Today, there has been a near-universal movement toward democratic civilian rule in Latin America, with ___ a significant exception to the trend |
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| bureaucratic authoritarianism |
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| This term is associated with a new pattern of military involvement in politics that began in 1964 in Brazil and spread to Argentina, Chile, and other countries |
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| The phase of military involvement in politics known as ___ was marked by British, French, and German military missions to Latin America, "breakthrough" and "veto" coups, a technocratic mentality, and coups after which the military often quickly returned to its barracks. |
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| According to Fraser, which of the following pairs of countries have NOT had major military conflict or boundary dispute? |
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| Which of the following countries has NOT been invaded by the United States? |
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| Which of the following is one of the three main theories of international relations discussed by Fraser? |
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| During which of the following periods did the United States shift its policy away from the interventionism associated with previous administrations? |
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| Which two Latin American countries, sitting on the United Nations Security Council in 2003, refused to support the United States' rationale for invading Iraq? |
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| Which is not the name of a major trade agreement, initiative, or group? |
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| U.S. military interventions |
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| Which of the following has been much less of an important issue for Latin American international relations in the post-cold war period than it had been in previous periods? |
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| According to Blake, a major theory of economic development and international relations associated with Latin America in the 1960's and 1970's is known as ____ theory. |
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| Which is NOT one of the IGO's and NGO's discussed in Blake in CH. 3? |
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| Blake names one 19th century doctrine and four distinct eras of US policy toward LA in the 20th century. Which of the following is NOT one of those named doctrines or periods? |
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| What were land grants and allotments of Indian labor by the Spanish crown? |
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| Decreasing prices for exports relative to imports |
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| The adoption of Import Substitution Industrialization (ISI) was motivated in part by? |
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| During the so-called "lost decade" (the 1980's), ___ in most of Latin America. |
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| Neoliberalism is most contrary to which of the following? |
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| As measured by the Gini index, in Latin America within-country ___ is the highest in the world. |
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| Which is most closely associated with Fujimori's ten-year presidency |
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| An important failure of a military coup in 1981 was in what country? |
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| What is one of the three major economic policy approaches presented by Blake? |
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| Which is NOT one of the four major policy options for handling past human rights violations? |
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| binomial electoral system |
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| Which of the following is NOT one of the main terms discussed by Blake in "The Quest for Governance?" |
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| A legislature in which opposition parties control a majority of seats |
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| Beginning in 1997 and ocntinuing through 2006, the president in Mexico has experienced? |
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| The year that was the closest presidential election in Mexican History? |
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| The major guerilla group that took up arms among the indigenous people? |
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| Nine weeks after President Zedillo appointed General Gutierrez Rebollo to lead the fight against drug traffickers, General Gutierrez was? |
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| Beginning in the ___ when the concaine barons in Columbia began to contract with MExican traffickers to smuggle their product into the US, drugs began to generate hundreds of millions of dollars annually. |
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| Detained the entire police force |
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| In June 2005, Mexican federal officers did what in the city of Nuevo Laredo? |
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| Brazil's most recent transition from military to civilian rule took place in? |
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| Which of the following won the presidential elections of 2002 and 2006? |
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| Fernando Henrique Cardoso |
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| Which became famous for slashing inflation? |
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| Blake says that a central problem of governance of most recent Brazilian presidents has been gaining support from the ___? |
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| an absence of polarized political conflict |
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| Two central features of contemporary Chile are a prolonged economic boom and...? |
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| Although Chile's economy grew steadily from 1984-2002, this growth did not reduce...? |
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| Chilean politics during thee first six decades after independence took the form of a comparitively stable...? |
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| The 1891 Civil War led to the installation of a ____ republic. |
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| The economic team that took over after the coup was known as the ___ boys. |
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| binomial electoral system |
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| Which is an unusual characteristic of Chile's legislative system today, one not seen in either Mexico or Brazil (or indeed, in any other Latin American country)? |
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| Chilean courts prosecuted some generals for human rights abuses. |
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| During most of the military dictatorship, the ___ was the only organization that could offer protection to the regime's victims and opponents. |
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| Pinochet's time as Chile's president came to an end after he...? |
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| Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement 200 |
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| In 1982, a group of Venezuelan junior officers formed an organization within the military called the... |
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| Praise for Chavez after the failed 1992 coup included a prayer to Chavez modeled on the... |
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| Democratic Action party/ (AD) |
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| This party eon all of the elections during the trieno and went on to play a leading role in politics before the rise of Chavez. |
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| In the wake of the 2002 atempted coup against a democratically elected government, which of the following was one of the only two countries in the americas to refuse to denounce the coup, expressing instead satisfaction with the ouster of the president of Venezuela? |
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| This term is used to refer to political systems in which the armed forces frequently influence government decisions through the use of threat of force. |
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| In what country did a presidential candidate try to win by calling his opponent an Haitian? |
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| The Yelvington chapter argues that ethnic identities in Latin America are? |
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| A term used to refer to white-skinned Caucasions. |
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| As a consequence of the ideology of hispanidad, which of the following pairs of terms are considered mutually exclusive categories? |
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| Comparing Latin American countries, as the level of income inequality rises, support for democracy... |
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| As the level of GDP per capita rises support for democracy... |
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| The career as the leading drug trafficker in Mexico- Armado Carillo Fuentes, known as the "Lord of the Skies"- came to an end when he died after |
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| In May 2008, Edgar Millan Gomez, Mexico's acting chief of police, was one of four of Mexico's top police officials to be... |
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| Bureaucratic Authoritarianism |
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| The kind of rule began in 1964 in Brazil |
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| Brazil currently has a presidential system of government |
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| Fernando Henrique Cardoso |
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| He resigned the presidency amidst a corruption scandal. |
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| This party won both the presidency and the largest number of seats in the Chamber of Deputies in 2002 |
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| Which crisis shook the Brazilian Economy in 1997-1998? |
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| Chile is the only country in Latin America in which- until March 2006- more than one fifth of the upper house of legislature consisted of ___ members. |
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| From 1925-1958, which of the following was the urban middle class, white collar party that was the kew power broker in the legislator? |
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| Who helped found the Chilean Socialist Party and ran for the presidency three times before winning in 1970? |
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| that her sister had been tortured by the regime |
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| Rosenberg relates to another story told about a journalist who, thirteen years after the events, seemed to have forgotten... |
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| The first democratic presidential and legislative elections in Venezuela took place in this year, during a three period known as the trienio. |
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| Saw discontent with economic performance and policy turned into major rioting, the caracazo, in1989. |
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| What is true about Venezuela |
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| Chavez constitution eliminated mechanisms of direct democracy, such as referenda |
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| Which of the following is not true of Venezuela since 2000? |
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| The name of the racist dictator who ordered the killing of tens of thousands of Haitian sugarcane workers. |
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| Which country was first associated with the concept of democracia racial/ racial democracy? |
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| Which country promoted the ideology of indigenismo and proclaimed mestizos to be the Raza Cosmica/Cosmic Race? |
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| According to the Yelvington chapter, "nowhere in contemporary Latin America is the persecution of Indians as profound and cruel as in ___, where more than 120,000 have been killed in what has been called the permanent counterinsurgency state |
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| Nationalism in this country- the home of more than 200,000 Jews- has had a strong anti-Semitic dimension. |
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| Which of the following is said to have contributed to building public support in LAtin American countries for market-oriented economic reforms? |
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| The most telling trend in Latin American economies from 1986 to 2006 is rising. |
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| In what country was a Bishop killed after the release of the Catholic Church's human right's report in 1998? |
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| Political corruption remains at consistently high levels |
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| Which of the following is a trend observed in Latin America at the turn of the century? |
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