history ch 31
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 multinational corporation | foreign owned business in a host country |
| import substitution | economic policy in which officials examine the list if goods that a country imports to find those items that could be produced inside that country |
| hyperinflation | an extremely high rate of inflation |
| geopolitical region | area that shares similar political and geographical features; ex: caribbean basin |
| monoculture | a region of country;s dependence on one crop |
| campesino | name given to a central american peasant |
| pri | mexico's institutional revolutionary party |
| contras | rebels seeking to overthrow nicaraguas sandinista government |
| dissidents | people dissatisfied with the government |
| cartel | combination of corporations or groups that control an entire industry |
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