Goods that come from agriculture, forestry, mining, and fishing.
An amalgam of gangs, ex military and military backed irregulars within a country, that were often involved in appropriations of peasant lands in South America.
Name given to the forest and woodland area of Brazil.
A term used to describe anti-imperialism rhetoric that promotes income redistribution, national sovereignty and a distancing from the orbit of power of the USA.
Occurred when European colonists came to the New World and brought diseases that killed millions of indigenous people.
A city that is the largest in the country and is the center of economic and political life.
Volcanic regions fed by mantle from below the earth's surface. Nit caused by tectonic plate movement.
Occurs when countries, after very rapid growth from low to middle income status, falter due to poor infrastructure-poor roads and inadequate sanitation, education and health facilities- and low productivity.
A term used to describe those with black and indigenous ancestry.
A period of rapid economic growth in Brazil that lasted from 1968 to 1980.
An forested area in the tropics marked by substantial rainfall.
The name for marginal settlements or slums in Brazil.
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