| A | B |
|---|
| Fidel Castro | the leader of Cuba's government |
| Communism | an economic system in which the government owns all large businesses and most of the country's land |
| Illiterate | unable to read and write |
| Ally | a country joined to another country for a special purpose |
| Exile | a person who leaves his or her homeland for another political reasons |
| Jean-Bertrand Aristide | former peresident of Haiti |
| refugee | someone who leaves his or her homeland to protect personal safety and escape persecution |
| Creole | person of mixed African and European descent in Haiti, a language that mixes French and African languages |
| Constitution | a statement of a country's basic laws and values |
| Citizen | a person with certain rights and responsibilities under a particular government |
| Commonwealth | a self-governing political unit that has strong ties to a particular country |
