| A | B |
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| cash crop | a crop produced primarily for direct sale in a market, rather than for other purposes. |
| ejido | a communal farm in Mexico on which farmers work land together or work individual plots |
| maquiladora | a foreign companys factory in Mexico usually near the U.S. border in which products are assembled for export |
| inflation | the rise in prices caused by a decrease in value of a nations currency |
| monopoly | a business that has no competitions |
| privatization | the selling of gov't owned businesses or lands to private owners |
| cardamom | a spice that is grown in the central highlands |
| calypso | a type of music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago |
| reggae | a type of music that originated in Jamaica |
| merengue | the national music and dance of the Dominican Republic on the island of Hispaniola |
| voo doo | a religion common in Haiti whose followers believe that spirits of good & evil play an important part in daily life |
| refugee | a person who flees his or her own country to an other often for economic of political reasons |
| commonwealth | a self-governing political unit |
| embargo | a suspension of trade with a country |
| communism | an economic and political system in which gov't owns or controls all facilities and resources necessary to make products |
| buffer state | a small country tht seperates two larger competing countries |
| soil exhaustion | the loss in soil nutrients that results from always planting the same crop in a particular area |
| favela | northern cities filled with hige slum areas |
| tannin | substance used to prepore leather and comes from quebracho trees |
| landlocked | completly surrounded by land and does not have access to the ocean |
| isthmus | a narrow neck of land that acts as a bridge to connect two larger bodies of land |
| indigenous | native to a certain area |
| pampas | the wide grassy plains of Argentina and neighboring countries in S.A. |
| llanos | the plains of southern Columbia and Venezuela |
| indigo | a plant that is used to make blue dye |
| mestizo | people with both Native American and European ancestors |
| mulato | descendants of Eurppean plantation colonists and Africans |
| cacao | a small tree on which the cocoa bean grows |
| hacienda | large family-owned estates |
| shantytown | a poor settlement of small make shift |
| land reform | means breaking up the large landholdings and allowing small farmers to own their land |
