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| 9452601205 | Party of Institutionalized Revolution (PRI) | inclusive Mexican political party developing from the 1920s; ruled for the rest go the 20th century. |  | 0 |
| 9452601206 | Zapatistas | Mexican guerrilla movement; named after revolutionary Emiliano Zapata. |  | 1 |
| 9452601207 | Juan Jose Arevalo | reformist president of Guatemala elected in 1944; his programs led to conflict with foreign interests. | 2 | |
| 9452601208 | United Fruit Company | most important foreign company in Guatemala; 1993 nationalization effort of some of its land holding caused a U.S. reaction. |  | 3 |
| 9452601209 | Fulgencio Batista | authoritarian ruler of Cuba (1934-1944). | 4 | |
| 9452601210 | 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 collapse. |  | 5 |
| 9452601211 | Ernesto "Che" Guevara | Argentinian revolutionary; worked with Fidel Castro in Cuba. |  | 6 |
| 9452601212 | liberation theology | combination of Roman Catholic and socialist principles aiming to improve the lives of the poor. |  | 7 |
| 9452601213 | Salvador Allende | Chilean socialist president; overthrown by a military coup in 1973. | 8 | |
| 9452601214 | Sandinista party | Nicaraguan party; removed by power in 1990 elections, under U.S. influence. Named for Augusto Sandino. | 9 | |
| 9452601215 | banana republics | conservative, often dictatorial, Latin American governments friendly to the U.S.; exported tropical products. | 10 | |
| 9452601216 | Augusto Sandino | led guerrilla resistance movement against U.S. occupation forces in Nicaragua; assassinated by Nicaraguan National Guard in 1934; became national hero and symbol of resistance to U.S. influence in Central America. | 11 | |
| 9452601217 | Good Neighbor Policy | introduced by U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 to deal fairly, without intervention, with Latin American states. | 12 | |
| 9452601218 | Alliance for Progress | 1961 U.S. program for economic development of Latin America. | 13 |
