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RR Unit 7 Section 7 - Political and Economic Change in Latin America

Terms in this set (10)

Juan Peron
Appealed to Argentine nationalism and led a repressive government
Import substitution
Policy in which local manufacturers produce goods at home to replace imported products
Dirty war
Period beginning in the late 1970s in Argentina during which the military arrested, tortured, and killed thousands of people
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
Mothers who marched silently every week in Buenos Aires for over thirty years, holding pictures of their missing children who disappeared during the dirty war
Indigenous
Native to a country or region
Sandinistas
Group of revolutionaries that overthrew the Nicaraguan government in 1979
Contras
Counterrevolutionary group in Nicaragua that opposed the Sandinistas
Organization of American States
Formed to strengthen democracy, promote human rights, and confront shared problems such as poverty, terrorism, illegal drugs, and corruption
North American Free Trade Agreement
Plan to allow free trade among the three nations, Mexico, the United States, and Canada
Cartels
An association of businesspeople; used to refer to the criminal gangs that produce and smuggle drugs internationally
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