| Question | Answer |
| Sierra Maestra | Cuban mountain range where Castro mounted his guerilla warfare from |
| Contras | US funded rebel group in Nicaragua to overthrow the Sandinistas |
| Freebie | Roberto something is the wrong answer to something |
| Jacobo Arbenz Guzman | Democratically elected president of Guatemala, US financed coup because they considered him a communist, operation success |
| Oscar Romero | Liberation theology archbishop in El Salvador, murdered by military |
| Jean-Bertrand Aristide | Liberation theology priest in Haiti, eventually president before and after coup |
| Rios Montt | Guatemalan dictator |
| Juan Jose Arevalo | First democratically elected president of Guatemala (1944) |
| Anastacio Somoza | Nicaraguan dictator |
| Fulgencio Batista | Cuban dictator |
| Agustin Farabundo-Marti | Led first peasant uprising in El Salvador |
| Porfirio Diaz | Mexican dictator from 1876-1911 after Benito Juarez, sponsored reform such as railroads |
| Salvador Allende | democratically elected socialist leader of Chile, was overthrown by Pinochet |
| Juscelino Kubitschek | President of Brazil (Child of the Dark) |
| Limpieza | [Ethnic] cleansing |
| What happened to the whites in Haiti? | They were kicked out and many ended up in Cuba |
| Why was the Haitian revolution important? | It was the first and only successful slave revolt in the Americas |
| Cimarrones | Runaway slaves |
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