Chapter 26 Quiz for Exploitation, Inequality, and Resistance

. The ""new left"" in Latin America have advocated regionalism as a way of breaching the persistent hegemony of the United States.

. Hugo Chávez won the Venezuelan presidency in 1998

. The Uruguayan leader called the ""world's poorest president"" because of his austere lifestyle was

. More than 60 years of right-wing rule in Paraguay ended when former Catholic bishop Fernando Lugo defeated the Colorado Party candidate in

. In Costa Rica, women held nearly _______ of all congressional positions in 2015.

. Despite the changing political atmosphere, few efforts have been made to investigate and prosecute human rights abuses under military dictators in Latin America.

. The Shining Path in Peru funded its guerilla attacks

. FARC membership in Colombia grew from 6,000 in 1982 to _____ two decades later.

. U.S. financial assistance to Colombia totaled roughly _______ over 15 years.

. By the mid-1990s, the transport of South American cocaine brought in more money than Mexico's legal petroleum industry.

. The Mexican Sinaloa Cartel was headed by

. In 2012, the top five most dangerous countries in the world included

. In the first half of 2014, US border patrol agents intercepted roughly _______ children refugees.

. Although they are affected daily by the drug trade, women have been excluded from participating, except at the very lowest levels.

. The massive increase in legal immigration to the United States beginning in the 1960s was prompted by

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