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14 Cards in this Set
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Altiplano
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Treeless high plain of Peru and Bolivia
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El Nino
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Weather phenomenon studied in Latin America - a warm Pacific current arrives along the normally cold coastal waters of Ecuador and Peru in December, around Christmastime
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Urban Primacy
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A condition in which a country has a primate city three to four times larger than any other city in the country (Lima, Caracas, Guatemala City)
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Squatter Settlements
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Where many of the urban poor live in self-built housing on land that does not belong to them
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Latifundia
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Long-observed practice of maintaining large estates
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Minfundia
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Peasants have always farmed small plots for their subsistence - can lead to permanent or shifting cultivation
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Agrarian Reform
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Latin America surrounded the question of land, with peasants demanding its redistribution through this process
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Remittances
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Monies sent back home (sent normally monthly by immigrants to support family)
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Mercosur
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The Southern Cone Common market in South America
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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Result of Portuguese presence in the Americas
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Supranational Organizations
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governing bodies that include several states (most discussed are trade blocs)
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Subnational Organizations
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groups that represent areas or people within the state (often form along ethnic or ideological lines and can provoke serious internal divisions)
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Maquiladoras
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The Mexican assembly plants that line the border with the U.S.
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Neoliberalism
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Stresses privatization, export production, FDI, and few restrictions on imports
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