| A | B |
|---|
| agribusiness | large commercial farms |
| Benedita da Silva | first black woman elected to the Brazilian congress |
| import substitution | policy where goods are produced at home to replace imports |
| Augusto Pinochet | former Chilean dicatator who was later arrested in Europe for human rights violations |
| Salvador Allende | President of Chile overthrown in a US backed coup |
| Alliance for Progress | program launched by President Kennedy to promote aid to Latin America |
| Bay of Pigs | landing site of a failed coup attempt in Cuba |
| Cuban missile crisis | brought the superpowers to the brink of nuclear war |
| NAFTA | North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement; Mexico linked its economy to the US and Canada |
| Jean-Bertrand Aristide | elected president of Haiti in 1990 |
| Vincente Fox | Elected president of Mexico, ending the political control of the PRI |
| contras | guerilla group that opposed the Sandanistas |
| ejidos | peasant-run cooperative farms |
| maquiladoras | assembly plants on Mexico's northern border |
| Falklands | British-ruled islands invaded by Argentina in 1982 |
| Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo | group who demonstrated against the "dirty war" in Argentina |
| Eva Peron | popular first wife of Juan Peron |
| Isabel Peron | first woman head of state in the Western Hemisphere |
| Luiz Lula da Silva | leftist president of Brazil elected in 2002 |
