Chapter 25 Quiz for Exploitation, Inequality, and Resistance

. The Guatemalan leader who declared that rural Mayan peasants were the enemy of the government was

. During the 36 years of the Guatemalan civil war, roughly _________ people died.

. The most visible opposition to Anastasio Somoza Debayle came from

. El Salvadoran Oscar Romero was known for speaking out against the brutality of paramilitary death squads in his weekly sermons.

. The united leftist opposition in El Salvador took the name

. By the end of 1988, there were _______ Contras.

. The Iran-Contra affair was an attempt by the Reagan Administration to continue funding the Contras in their fight against the Sandinistas despite Congress's prohibition.

. The funds in the Iran-Contra scandal came from

. The Contadora Four included

. The U.S. was instrumental in convincing all Central American leaders to sign the Esquipulas II Peace Accord of 1987.

. By the early 1990s, US leaders had already withdrawn support for right-wing dictators in Latin America as a result of

. In 2000, the Mexican presidency was won by the PAN candidate

. By the 1980s, government efforts to control drug cartels had reached fever pitch, with the Mexican army joining the fray.

. The full force of U.S. authorities was brought to bear on the Mexican drug trade after the murder of U.S. agent

. The arrest of key figures in the Guadalajara Cartel led the fragmentation of the organization and laid the foundation for the ultraviolent syndicates that have plagued Mexico in recent years.

. The Medellín ring administered around 80 percent of Colombian cocaine trafficking until the early 1990s, under the leadership of

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