The Cold War environment led the United States to ________.
a. economically support only democratic Latin America regimes
b. provide military aid only to democratic Latin American regimes
c. economically and militarily support all Latin American countries
d. intervene against reformist regimes thought to be Communist
e. intervene against all democratic regimes
The CIA-sponsored coup in Guatemala had what effect?
a. It shut down the United Fruit Company.
b. It influenced Cuban leftists to rely on revolution rather than reform.
c. It influenced Cuban leftists to maintain the Cuban army as it was before they took over.
d. It installed a democratic regime cognizant of investment and human rights.
e. It established the first stable regime in Latin America.
Which of the following statements pertaining to Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is NOT true?
a. The PRI lost the free and fair presidential elections in 2000 against PAN.
b. The PRI historically suppressed any opposition against it and ordered people to vote for
them.
c. The PRI has long been Mexico's most dominant party.
d. The PRI billed itself as a leftist party and became corrupt and bureaucratic.
e. The PRI President Enrique Pea Nieto joined with Caldern to start a drug crusade.
The Monroe Doctrine was a U.S. proclamation ________.
a. to assist Europe in its colonization of Latin America
b. to provide economic assistance to Latin American countries
c. that it had no interests in Latin America
d. to keep Europe out of the Western hemisphere
e. to assist any Latin American country wanting to democratize
Which of the following statements pertaining to dependency theory is true?
a. Poor countries are dependent upon the military protection of rich ones.
b. Rich urbanites in the host country's capital city flee for rural areas, a trend known as
capital flight.
c. Poor countries will stay poor because they are economically subordinate to rich
countries.
d. Developing countries are dependent on authoritarian rule rather than democratic rule.
e. Latin America's dependence on the U.S. helped advance Latin American countries'
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