Deck 13: Latin America and South America

Question 1

There were two institutional power bases in Mexico after Independence:

A) The church and the state.
B) The church and the military.
C) The Catholic Church and the Military.
D) The caudillos and the Police.

Answer 1

The Catholic Church and the Military.

Question 2

During his reign General Diaz (1816-1911) created a broad coalition of military colleagues and followers and in order to control the vast population of Mexicans that lived in the countryside he Created:

A) Rural Police.
B) Rural secret police teams.
C) Rural military commands.
D) All of the above

Answer 2

Rural Police.

Question 3

Emilio Zapata emerged as a strong leader, from which section of Mexican society?

A) Farm laborers
B) The university campuses of Mexico City
C) The political left
D) Former landowners

Answer 3

Former landowners

Question 4

The Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerrilla was written by:

A) Abimael Guzman.
B) Carlos the Jackal.
C) Manual Rodriguez.
D) Carlos Marighella.

Question 5

Vincente Fox took office in 2000 ending seventy years of single party rule by:

A) PAN Party.
B) PRI Party.
C) The Junta.
D) The Military.

Question 6

Land disputes between the Mexican Government and peasant farmers and landowners has been ongoing in which regions of Mexico?

A) Oaxaca and Peubla
B) Chiapas and Hidalgo
C) Vera Cruz
D) All of the above

Question 7

What term best describes the activities of the right-wing Peace and Justice movement in the Chiapas region of Mexico?

A) Guerrillas
B) Freedom Fighters
C) Para militaries
D) Death Squads

Question 8

Mexico's Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) received support training and logistics from which South American terrorist group?

A) Rebel Armed Forces of Colombia
B) ELZN
C) Shining Path
D) Contras

Question 9

In the mid-1990s, the United States stepped up deportations of Central American criminals; many of them gang members from:

A) Mara Salvatrucha 13.
B) 18th Street.
C) Mara 18.
D) All of the above

Question 10

Which one of the following groups did NOT merge to form the Guatemalan National Unity Group?

A) Rebel Armed Forces
B) Morazanist Patriotic Front
C) Organization of People in Arms
D) Guerrilla Army of the Poor

Question 11

FARC and ELN (National Liberation Army) have become:

A) Comrades in arms.
B) Close allies.
C) A collective of terrorist groups fighting the government.
D) Bitter enemies.

Question 12

In 1968 the commander of El Salvador's National Guard created what intelligence gathering organization?

A) URNG
B) Contras
C) ORDEN
D) FAR

Question 13

About sixty-five of the FARC's 110 operational units are involved in some aspect of the:

A) Arms smuggling.
B) Kidnapping.
C) Drug trade.
D) Extortion.

Question 14

What is considered to be Central America's number one crime problem?

A) Gangs
B) Drugs
C) Kidnapping
D) All of the above

Question 15

After the death of Raul Reyes the Colombian military found a number of files on his computer that indicated that the ________ government was prepared to back FARC.

A) Peruvian
B) Ecuadorian
C) Venezuelan
D) Chilean

Question 16

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia is considered to be the largest, best trained and equipped terror organization in Colombia.

Question 17

The three Marxist, narco-terrorist organizations operating in Colombia are equipped to place 250,000 armed men in the fight against the Colombian Military.

Question 18

Mercenaries from France and Israel have aided Colombia's drug cartels in training their private security teams in paramilitary-style training.

Question 19

With the U.S. prosecuting a war on terror in other regions of the world it has since 9-11 stopped providing military hardware to combat the Colombian drug trade.

Question 20

Colombia's National Liberation Army formed in 1963 and although smaller in size to the FARC it has continued its long term campaign against the Colombian Government.

Question 21

Right-wing death squads emerging in Colombia appear to have the tacit support of the military and the government.

Question 22

Sendero Luminoso burst onto the scene by brutally assassinating any village leaders who resisted the group's call to smash authority and establish an egalitarian utopia.

Question 23

An associate of Osama bin Laden, an Egyptian named Mohammed Abed Adel a member of Egypt's largest militant group was arrested in Bogota, Colombia in 1998 and deported back to Egypt his country of origin.

Question 24

The manner in which Colombia itself has addressed the drug problem derives substantially from the U.S. approach, with most of Bogota's measures to fight the drug trade the result of bilateral agreements or the unilateral imposition of strategies designed by the U.S.

Question 25

In February 2002 the FARC initiated Operation Black Cat to destabilize the government of Andreas Pastrana.

Question 26

The United Self-Defense Forces (AUC) is the elite military wing of the Colombian Army.

Question 27

Following the arrest of Abimael Guzman the leader of the Shining Path in 1992, the organization began to disintegrate.

Question 28

Tupac Amaru (MRTA) takes its name from the legendary Inca leader Tupac Amaru II a revered Indian rebel. It was originally formed in 1985 as a Marxist/Leninist movement led by Victor Polay.

Question 29

Carlos Marighella wrote the Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerrilla, and was the leader of the Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army. Marighella was captured by Brazilian Police in July 1986 and executed.

Question 30

The aim of the MLN was not to replace the government, but to force issues and change policy for the redistribution of wealth.