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| 375862799 | Francisco Madero | moderate democratic Mexican reformer; challenged Profirio Diaz in 1910 and initiated a revolution after losing fraudulent elections; assassinated in 1913 | 0 | |
| 375862800 | Pancho Villa | Mexican revolutionary leader in northern Mexico after 1910 | 1 | |
| 375862801 | Emiliano Zapata | Mexican revolutionary commander of a guerrilla movement centered at Morelos; demanded sweeping land reforms | 2 | |
| 375862802 | Alvaro Obregón | became leader of Mexican government in 1915; elected president in 1920 | 3 | |
| 375862803 | Mexican Constitution of 1917 | promised land and educational reform, limited foreign ownership, guaranteed rights for workers, and restricted clerical education and property ownership | 4 | |
| 375862804 | Lázaro Cárdenas | Mexican president (1934-1940); responsible for large land redistribution to create communal farms; also began program of primary and rural education | 5 | |
| 375862805 | Cristeros | conservative peasant movement in Mexico during the 1920s; a reaction agains secularism | 6 | |
| 375862806 | Party of Institutionalized Revolution (PRI) | inclusive Mexican political party developing from the 1920s; ruled for the rest of the 20th century | 7 | |
| 375862807 | Voctor Raul Haya de la Torre | Peruvian politician; created the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance in 1924; gained power in 1985 | 8 | |
| 375862808 | Getúlio Vargas | became president of Brazil following a contested election of 1929; led an authoritarian state until deposed in 1945; became president again in 1950 | 9 | |
| 375862809 | Juan Perón | dominant authoritarian and populist leader in Argentina from the mid-1940s; driven into exile in 1955; returned and elected president in 1973; died in 1974 | 10 | |
| 375862810 | Eva Duarte (Evita) | wife of Juan Perón; the regime's spokesperson among the lower social classes | 11 | |
| 375862811 | Juan José Arevalo | reformist president of Guatemala elected in 1944; his programs led to conflict with foreign interests | 12 | |
| 375862812 | United Fruit Company | most important foreign company in Guatemala; 1993 nationalization effort of some of its land holdings caused a U.S. reaction | 13 | |
| 375862813 | Fulgencio Batista | authoritarian ruler of Cuba (1934-1944) | 14 | |
| 375862814 | Fidel Castro | revolutionary leader who replaced Batista in 1958; reformed Cuban society with socialist measures; supported economically and politically by the Soviet Union until its collaps | 15 | |
| 375862815 | Liberation theology | combination of Roman Catholic and socialist principles aiming to improve the lives of the poor | 16 | |
| 375862816 | Salvado Allende | Chilean socialist president; overthrown by a military coup in 1973 | 17 | |
| 375862817 | Good Neighbor Policy | introduced by U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt in 1933 to deal fairly, without intervention, with Latin American states | 18 |
