Question 1

What country was cited as an example of "how to kill a country"?

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Question 2

What was the Zeta cartel?

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Question 3

What was the "Monterey Consensus"?

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Question 4

What was PEPFAR?

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Question 5

What is human security?

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Question 6

What was the FARC?

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Question 7

Who were François "Papa Doc" Duvalier and Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier?

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Question 8

In what region did a debt crisis occur in the early 1980s?

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Question 9

What anti-American regional group did Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez organize?

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Question 10

Who was Nicolás Maduro?

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Question 11

Paramilitaries that terrorize populations and bloated, ineffective, and corrupt bureaucracies are associated with _____________.

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Question 12

The Bush administration introduced the ____________________ in 2002, a bilateral initiative to increase aid by 50 percent over three years.

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Question 13

A _______________ is someone with a well-founded fear of persecution based on religion, race, nationality, political views, or membership in a particular social group, and cannot expect protection from their government.

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Question 14

In 2014 the number of ___________________ apprehended trying to enter the country illegally increased to 60,000 from 13,625 in 2012.

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Question 15

The U.S. seeks to woo less-developed countries like ____________________ that are influenced by China.

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Question 16

In Latin America Washington seeks better relations with countries that might be attracted to the leftist policies of ____________.

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Question 17

Fragile states threaten U.S. security by providing ________________ with safe havens.

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Question 18

President Bill Clinton regarded failed states as a threat to stability in regions where America had clear interests, and viewed the solution as including ___________________ to prevent state failure.

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Question 19

Formerly Zaire, civil war in erupted in ____________ in 1997 as a spillover from Rwanda's genocidal conflict.

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Question 20

Mexican policy was successful in destroying the large Knights Templar, Gulf, and Zeta cartels, but ______________ increased dramatically as numerous, smaller cartel offshoots fought for control of territory.

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Quiz 7: The US and the Global South: Practicing Intervention, Aid, and Neglect