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| 7317561634 | Camarilla | In Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America, a politician's personal following in a patron-client relationship. | 0 | |
| 7317561635 | Cartel | A formal organization of producers that agree to coordinate prices and production | 1 | |
| 7317561636 | Caudillos | Military dictator; gained control after independence movements | 2 | |
| 7317561637 | Chiapas | southern Mexican state which had large groups of Native Americans, where rebels took up arms and challenged the gov't, demanding land reform and Native American rights | 3 | |
| 7317561638 | Civic Culture | a political culture in which citizens widely share a belief in the legitimacy of their regime and a trust in the government; therefore the citizens demonstrate restraint in their demands on the government | 4 | |
| 7317561639 | Clientelism | an informal aspect of policymaking in which a powerful patron offers resources such as land, contacts, protection or jobs in return for the support and services of lower-status and less powerful clients; corruption, preferential treatment and inequality are characteristic of clientelist politics | 5 | |
| 7317561640 | Co-optation | The process by which individuals are brought into a beneficial relationship with the state, making them dependent on the state for certain rewards | 6 | |
| 7317561641 | Corporatist state | A state in which interest groups become an institutionalized part of the state structure. | 7 | |
| 7317561642 | Creoles | In colonial Spanish America, term used to describe someone of European descent born in the New World. Elsewhere in the Americas, the term is used to describe all nonnative peoples. | 8 | |
| 7317561643 | GATT | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade; A United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas | 9 | |
| 7317561644 | Haciendas | Large Spanish colonial estates usually owned by wealthy families but worked by many peasants | 10 | |
| 7317561645 | Import substitution | a government policy that uses trade restrictions and subsidies to encourage domestic production of manufactured goods | 11 | |
| 7317561646 | Mestizos | A person of mixed Native American and European ancestory | 12 | |
| 7317561647 | "Mexican Miracle" | a period from the 1940s to the 1970s wherein rapid industrialization promoted high levels of economic growth and improved living standards, which gave rise to a new middle class with rising expectations. "model" for other nations. illusion died in '80's when economy crashed, politics were chaotic, and ethnic clashes started. | 13 | |
| 7317561648 | Missions | Religious settlements run by Catholic priests and friars | 14 | |
| 7317561649 | Mulattoes | In colonial Latin America, Spanish/African who were denied basic political, economic, and social rights due to their mixed heritage. | 15 | |
| 7317561650 | NAFTA | A trade agreement between Canada, the United States and Mexico that encourages free trade between these North American countries. | 16 | |
| 7317561651 | neoliberalism | A strategy for economic development that calls for free markets, balanced budgets, privatization, free trade, and minimal government intervention in the economy. | 17 | |
| 7317561652 | Patron clientelism | a system in which the state provides specific benefits or favors to a single person or small group in return for public support. | 18 | |
| 7317561653 | PEMEX | Mexican Petroleum; a government agency that runs the oil industry in Mexico | 19 | |
| 7317561654 | Peninsulares | Spanish-born, came to Latin America; ruled, highest social class | 20 | |
| 7317561655 | Porfiriato | the long period of rule by Mexico's Porfirio Diaz, 1876-1911, often cited as a prime example of neocolonialism in Latin America. Diaz imposed strict political control, encouraged European and US investment. Influences of the Porfiriato are: stability, authoritarianism, foreign investment and economic growth, and growing gap between the rich and the poor. | 21 | |
| 7317561656 | PRI | The national government of Mexico coalesced into one single governing party; Party of the Institutionalized Revolution; dominant political party in Mexico; incorporated labor, peasant, military, and middle-class sectors; controlled other political organizations in Mexico. | 22 | |
| 7317561657 | sexenio | The six-year administration of Mexican presidents | 23 | |
| 7317561658 | technicos | educated, business-oriented leaders; moderate, free-market approach to politics; took control of the PRI in the 1970's | 24 | |
| 7317561659 | Zapatistas | Guerilla movement named in honor of Emiliano Zapata; originated in 1994 in Mexico's southern state of Chiapas; government responded with a combination of repression and negotiation | 25 | |
| 7317561660 | Mexico |  | 26 | |
| 7317561661 | Brazil |  | 27 | |
| 7317561662 | Argentina |  | 28 | |
| 7317561663 | Cuba |  | 29 | |
| 7317561664 | Haiti |  | 30 | |
| 7317561665 | Panama |  | 31 | |
| 7317561666 | Colombia |  | 32 | |
| 7317561667 | Venezuela | 3AB, 4A |  | 33 |
| 7317561668 | Guatemala |  | 34 | |
| 7317561669 | Nicaragua |  | 35 | |
| 7317561670 | Peru | 2A |  | 36 |
