Modern Latin America & Modern Day Issues

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Across
  1. 2. Financial actions and business deals amongst governments in the nation
  2. 5. Clearing forests by cutting down the trees
  3. 9. Has decreased taxes, but currently uses Euro. What country is this?
  4. 11. Castro’s communist regime had some success with social issues but maintained totalitarian control and limited freedom of speech. What country is this?
  5. 12. Areas of Central America, South America, and the Caribbean that Spain colonized. What country is this?
  6. 14. economics during the Industrial Revolution predict it would result in war and famine
  7. 17. United States, Canada, and Mexico in which they decreased taxes, and increased trade between North American nations.
  8. 20. Right-wing rebel group opposed to the Sandinistas
Down
  1. 1. family with large landholding ruled Nigeria as a director for over 40 years from 1890-1997
  2. 3. melting glaciers, heavier rainstorms, or more frequent drought
  3. 4. fertile land in humid climates into soil that cannot be used to farm, like a desert
  4. 6. Trade for money and agriculture
  5. 7. Increase the spread of nuclear technology to countries
  6. 8. Juan Peron is a European fascist, he was removed from power, and a military committee ruled the country, known as “The Dirty War”. What country is this?
  7. 10. Marxist Sandinistas won control of the country against U.S. counter-revolutionaries, known as Contras
  8. 13. Increased the spread of government and economic stability in society
  9. 15. mainly from the Middle East control the world’s oil supply for 11 nations
  10. 16. Coup removed democratically elected leader, Salvador Allende, leanings, spearheaded Operation Condor for the U.S., committing countless human rights violations in power. What country is this?
  11. 18. The Sandinistas overthrow Somza Dynasty, Daniel Ortega
  12. 19. in low supply of essential goods