Capital Cities | Presidents | Artists and Writers | U.S. Interventions | Political Terms |
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What is Brazil?
Brasilia
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What is Mexico?
Enrique Peña Nieto
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What is Mexico?
Frida Kahlo
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What is Guatemala?
In 1954, the CIA organized and backed an invasion and coup against the democratically-elected president of this country, after he nationalized property belonging to the United Fruit Company.
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What are the disappeared?
desaparecidos
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What is Costa Rica?
San Jose
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What is Chile?
Michelle Bachelet
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What is Colombia
Gabriel García Márquez
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What is Mexico
In 1913, the U.S. Navy evacuated Americans from this country due to its ongoing revolution.
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What is a coup?
golpe de estado
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What is Bolivia?
La Paz
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What is Bolivia?
Evo Morales
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What is Chile?
Isabel Allende
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What is Chile?
In 1973, Henry Kissinger promised to "make the economy scream" in this country, in response to the democratic election of a Socialist president.
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What is a run-off or second round election?
elección de segunda vuelta
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What is Uruguay?
Montevideo
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What is Colombia?
Juan Manuel Santos
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What is Peru?
Mario Vargas Llosa
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What is Panama?
In 1989, U.S. forces invaded this country and arrested its president on drug-trafficking charges.
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What is right-wing?
derechista
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What is Honduras?
Tegucilgalpa
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What is Peru?
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
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What is El Salvador?
Roque Dalton
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What is Nicaragua?
U.S. forces occupied this country almost continually between 1912 and 1933.
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What is a demonstration?
manifestación
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