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| 155778336 | 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. | 0 | |
| 155778337 | NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement; allows open trade with US, Mexico, and Canada | 1 | |
| 155778338 | Juan Jose Arevalo | Elected president of Guatemala, attempts of reform brought him into conflict with the United Fruit Company | 2 | |
| 155778339 | United Fruit Company | company in which many U.S. citizens hold stocks in, controlled half the land in Guatemala and provided many jobs...when the government of Guatemala wanted to take the land, the U.S. intervened and over threw the government | 3 | |
| 155778340 | Fulgencio Batista | a Cuban president, dictator, and military leader supported by the US, serving as leader until being overthrown as a result of the Cuban Revolution. His corrupt and repressive regime systematically profited from the exploitation of cuba's commercial interests. As a result, his July 26th Movement and other rebelling elements led a guerilla uprising against his regime which culminated in his eventual defeat. | 4 | |
| 155778341 | Fidel Castro | Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba | 5 | |
| 155778342 | "Che" Guevara | an Argentine revolutionary leader who was Fidel Castro's chief lieutenant in the Cuban revolution | 6 | |
| 155778343 | Liberation theology | a Catholic Church crusade for social justice and an end to poverty in Latin America | 7 | |
| 155778344 | Salvador Allende | Socialist politician elected president of Chile in 1970 and overthrown by the military in 1973. He died during the military attack. | 8 | |
| 155778345 | Sandinista party | Leftist political group in Nicaragua backed by the U.S.S.R. Ousted in elections in 1990. | 9 | |
| 155778346 | Augusto Sandino | Leader of Sandinistas in Nicaragua. fought to get US to leave | 10 | |
| 155778347 | Banana republics | governments and economies that benefitted from the United Fruit Company, so some people began calling the Central American nations this | 11 | |
| 155778348 | Good Neighbor Policy | FDR's foreign policy of promoting better relations w/Latin America by using economic influence rater than military force in the region | 12 | |
| 155778349 | Alliance for Progress | a program in which the United States tried to help Latin American countries overcome poverty and other problems | 13 | |
| 155778350 | Favelas | large slums in urban areas of Brazil | 14 | |
| 155778351 | Jorge Luis Borges | Argentinian writer remembered for his short stories (1899-1986) | 15 | |
| 155778352 | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Columbian, wrote novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude", known for magic realism, nobel prize for literature | 16 | |
| 155779505 | PRI | Party of the Institutionalized Revolution which was corrupt in Mexico. | 17 |
