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| Huge estates owned by wealthy |
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| 1830-1915, ruled mexico under the motto "Liberty, Order, Progress" |
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| 1873-1913, son of a wealthy family and educated in the US |
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| Peasant leader who opposed the Madero presidency. Mobilized landless peasants i S. central mexico in an attempt to seize and divide the land |
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| Murdered madero after 2 years of presidency |
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| Popular leader in the revolution. An outlaw in his youth, he formed a calvary army in the north of mexico and fought for the rights of landless people in collaboration with zapata |
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| a revolution for agrarian reforms led in northern Mexico by Pancho Villa and in southern Mexico by Emiliano Zapata |
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| promised universal sufferage and a one- term presidency, state run education free to the poor, and the end of debt peonage |
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| forum where all the pressure groups and vested intrests worked out compromises |
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| 1934-1940 president of mexico. Brought major changes to mexican life by distributing millions of acres of land to peasants and nationalizing the oil industry |
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| flat, fertile land that is easy to till, like the great plains |
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| small group of Argentinan land owners who raised cattle and sheep and grew wheat for export |
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| Argentine politician, president of argentina from 1916 to 1922 and 1928 to 1930. First president elected by male sufferage and began his presidency as a reformer, later becoming a conservative |
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| Dictator of Brazil from 1930 to 1945 and then 1951 to 1954. Defeated in election of 1930, he overthrew the gov. and created Estado Novo, a dictatorship emphasizing industralization and helped the urban poor but did little for the peasants |
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| President of Argentina from 1946-1955 and 1973-1974. As a military officer he championed the rights of labor. Aided by his wife, he was elected president in 1946. Built up argentinan industry but harmed the economy |
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| champion of the poor in argentina. She was a gifted speaker and popular political leader who campaigned to improve the life of the urban poor by founding schools and hospitals |
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| former military leader and president, he illegally seized power in cuba in a coup in 1953 |
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| the revolution led by Fidel Castro and a small band of guerrilla fighters against a corrupt dictatorship in Cuba; 1956-1959 |
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| young lawyer who led a failed uprising in 1953 and returned to cuba to establish a sucessful revolution w youthful followers |
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| castro's cheif lieutenant, main theorist of communist rev in latin america |
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| Where cuban exiles landed, armed by the cia, to overthrow castro |
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| nuclear weapons placed in cuba at the USA to forestall an attack |
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| during the cold war, local or regional wars in which the superpowers armed, trained, and finaced the combatants |
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| socialist politician elected president of chile in 1970 and over thrown by the military in 1973 |
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| led a military uprising in chile because of inflation and mass consumer protests |
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| war waged by the argentine military against leftist groups. illegal imprisonment, torture, and exectutions |
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| dictator of nicaragua, overthrown in 1979 |
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| alliance of revolutionaries and reformers |
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| anti-sandist nicaraguans; counter-revolutionaries |
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| killed catholic clergy in el salvador by the government |
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| dictator of Panama, overthrown in 1989 |
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| critic of american influence, elected president of venezuela in 1998 |
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