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4. Relying too much on a single crop or mineral for export

5. Monoculture

6. Taxing imports to favor the purchase of locally made goods

7. Import Substitution

8. Promotes economic, political, cultural, and military cooperation in the western hemisphere

9. Organization of American States

10. Biggest problem with multinational corporations

11. They take all the profit out of the Latin American country back to where they are based.

12. Birthrates remained high while death rates fell because of health care, nutrition, and sanitation improvements

13. Why population grew quickly in Latin America?

14. Political party that dominated Mexico’s government for 70 years

15. PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party)

16. First non-PRI president of 20th century; 2000-2008; made many reforms

17. Vicente Fox

18. Causes of Mexican economic problems

19. DEBT; oil prices low in 1950s, 1960s, 1980s; earthquakes; low peso value

20. Controversial US, Mexico, Canada free trade zone

21. NAFTA

22. Cause of Mexico city’s environmental problems

23. Too many people with too many cars and too few sewers living in the top of an extinct volcano

24. Anti-Communist rebels in Nicaragua and El Salvador

25. Contras

26. Marxist, anti-Somoza rebels in Nicaragua

27. Sandinistas

28. 1979-1990 Communist leader of Nicaragua; currently their socialist president

29. Daniel Ortega

30. Her 1990 election ended Communist rule in Nicaragua; she served as a symbol of democracy

31. Violeta Barrios de Chamorro

32. 1987 Nobel Peace prize winner for trying to settle regional conflicts; president of Costa Rica until last year

33. Oscar Arias

34. Panamanian dictator and convicted drug lord

35. Manuel Noriega

36. 1992 Nobel Peace prize winner; Guatemalan social reform activist

37. Rigoberta Menchú

38. 2005 signed to increase trade between US and Central America

39. CAFTA

40. US supported president of El Salvador 1980-82, 1984-89

41. Jose Napoleon Duarte

42. Combatants in Guatemala’s civil war

43. URNG Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (Mayan rebel group) vs
URNG Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (Mayan rebel group) vs. anti-Mayan government forces

44. He overthrew the pro-US Cuban dictator Batista in 1959 and established a Communist dictatorship.

45. Fidel Castro

46. US tried to invade Cuba with CIA trained exiles.

47. Bay of Pigs Invasion

48. Argentine revolutionary who assisted in overthrow of Batista in 1959

49. Ernesto Ché Guevara

50. US spy planes discovered Soviets building threats in Cuba.

51. Cuban Missile Crisis

52. Since 1960 US has had this on all Cuban goods (although we recently lifted it on agricultural products).

53. Embargo or boycott

54. Cause of Venezuela’s massive economic downturn since 2014

55. Low price of oil and monoculture

56. Current major issues between US and Latin America

57. Drugs; illegal immigration

58. Foreign investment in Latin America led to this problem.

59. Debt

60. Latin American countries that experienced civil war.

61. El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Colombia

62. Former US policy on Cuban Communist exiles

63. Once they touch US soil, they are automatically given asylum.

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