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sendero luminoso leader |
Abimael Guzman |
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what did sendero luminoso do |
changed the situation of Peru, took power by force, kids were abducted, and farmers killed because people thought they were involved |
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FARC leader |
ingrid betancourt |
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FARC description |
Colombia, wanted to change things via force, drugs financed, wars everywhere |
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ingrid? |
2002 captured by FARC because she wanted to be president |
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batista |
dictator in Cuba |
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dictator dominican republic |
trujillo |
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dictator chile |
pinochet |
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teodoro roosevelt |
politica de buena vecindad, tried to change their idea of the US |
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organizacion de estados |
21 countries, economic plan, resolve differences by conversation |
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alianza para el progreso makers |
kennedy y betancourt (venezuela) |
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alianza para el progreso description |
promote political and economical help, latin america and the US would buy from each other |
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dos potencias mundiales |
US and Soviet Union |
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playa giron |
cuba, 1961, tried to take an island, and kennedy blockaded them |
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total blockade of Kennedy |
1962, should cause country to fail because they didn't have the basic necessities many diseases, forced Cuba to form relations with other communist countries |
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salvador allende |
socialist president of Chile, 1970, US tried to end this economy |
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pinochet in chile and US |
overthrew him via the CIA |
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stroessner |
dictator paraguay |
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videla |
dictator of Argentina, lots of people disappeared, |
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madres de plaza de mayo |
argentina, moms of the children who disappeared, converted from peaceful thing into a movement |
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what happened to the children of the madres |
they were taken and raised in military families |
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united fruit company |
a poem about... the US taking over central america, world divided between companies, only give bananas to the world, flies are dictators, countries used and then put in the trash |
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anacaona |
wife of political boss, poet, feminine |
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micaela bastidas |
wife of tupac amaru II, criolla, part of the revolution because she was the adviser to her husband |
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manuela saenz de thorn |
libertadora del libertador, simon bolivar, independence, worked as a spy, saved simon from being killed |
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soldadera |
women fought in the war, took care of the sick, cleaned |
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adelita |
personification of women who fought with men in the revolution |
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flora tristan |
feminista, french, went to peru to get her inheritance, wrote to combine socialism with feminism |
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rigoberta menchu |
winner of the premio nobel de la paz (1992), indian, fought for their rights, a book about the problems |
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gioconda belli |
nicaraguan writer, poetry and she fought in the war, fought with both words and poetry |
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michelle bachelet |
1st female president in chile |
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cristina fernandez de kirchner |
took over husband's presidency |
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dilma rousseff |
president of brazil |
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situation of women in latin america |
machismo. una brecha salarial, explotacion sexual, violencia domestica, brecha de genero en el hogar (women are the cleaners), and in the schools/careers |
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imposicion de la religion catolica |
was very abstract, three forms of god, soldiers who were abusive were connected with catholicism, indians didn't wanna go to heaven b/c that's where their abusers were |
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sincretismo |
combination of religions |
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viracocha |
creator combined w god |
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pachamama |
woman w virgin mary |
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fiesta de san juan y... |
inti raymi, put a name of a saint on gods, allows festivals but puts a required holy day after it |
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santeria |
voodoo with roman catholic beliefs added |
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concilio vaticano II |
the church wanted to be realigned with society |
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teologia de la liberacion |
we should take care of the poor while they're here on earth |
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oscar arnulfo romero |
arzobispo de el salvador, killed during a mass |
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ernesto cardenal |
nicaragua, writer, fame destroyed marilyn monroe, image was produced of her that doesn't exist |
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kjh |
kjh |
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primer pais to legalize homosexual marriage |
uruguay |
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frente de liberacion homosexual |
mexico 1971 |
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movimiento lgbt |
mexico 60s |
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rebellion of lesbians day |
chile 3 de octubre 2007 |
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karen atala |
went to gay sauna, fired, kids taken away, chile |
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persecution homo cuba |
70s y 80s |
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nueva izquierda people |
rafael correa, cristina fernandez de kirchner, evo moralez, luiz inacio lula de silva, michelle bachelet |
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dilma rouseff |
brazil, petroleum, biodiesel, industria automotriz, impulso de la educacion, creacion de empleos |
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laura chinchilla |
costa rica, no gay marriage or abortion, pacto del pacifico, fight against narcotrafico, desarrollo economico, pais catolico |
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luis guillermo solis rivera |
new president costa rica, against gay marriage, abortion for rape, combat corruption and poverty |
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mauricio funes |
el salvador, lucha contra violencia, bajo el indice de pobreza, educacion uniforms and food, pension for old people |
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sanchez ceren |
new president el salvador
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ollanta humala |
peru, attacked disegualidad, infrastructura, lucha contra droga |
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jose mujica |
uruguay, lowered poverty, legalize marijuana, divorced women, abortion, turismo gay |
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nueva izquierda moderada |
dilma, chinchilla, mauricio, ollanta, jose mujica, |
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michelle bachelet |
chile, mujer, economy better, less poverty, more private universities, nueva izquierda |
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sebastian pinera |
centroderecha, chile, modernize pais, jobs, energy |
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hugo chavez |
venezuela, socialismo |
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evo moralez |
primer presidente indigena de bolivia |
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juan manuel santos |
colombia, centroderecha, economy, pobreza |
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alvaro colom |
guatemala, centroderecha, free education, salud free, obras publicas |
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otto perez molina |
new president, guatemala, living for public employees, relations w venezuela |
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enrique pena nieto |
mexico, centroderecha, economy, pacto del pacifico, poblacion indigena pobre |
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horacio cartes |
paraguay, centroderecha, salud publica gratuita, help poor people, help for homeless children, |
