Latin American Studies Final Exam

Created in part by cesar chavez labor union for farm hands or those who grow and harvest crops. committed to nonviolent protest they lead successful movements such as the delano grape strike. Fought issues such as wages, breaks, dangers of pesticides to workers, working conditions etc.

Ideology that compares "the people" vs "the elite." political ideas and activities that are intended to represent ordinary peoples needs and wishes.

Argentine general and eventually 3 time president. working class leader, mililtary feared a workers movement, campaigned heavily against los monteros, a small urban gureilla movement, exiled for 18 years. created basic rights for workers and modernized economy.

Poem by Rodolfo "corky" Gonzoles associated with the chicano movement. speaks of the struggles that the chicano people faced in the us while trying to achieve economic justice and equal rights. describes dilemma of chicanos trying to find an identity as part of a hybrid mestizo society.

Juan peron's second wife. officially named "spiritual leader of the nation" by argentine congress. championed womens suffrage in argentina.

Army: Jorge Rafael Videla, Navy: Emilio Massera, Ariforce: Ramon Agosti

Civil rights activist who co founded United Farm Workers

Prominent Mexican Painter, communist, and husband of Frida Khalo. Painted murals throughout mexico.

Mexican painter best known for her self portraits. work is rememberd as "pain and passion" and intesne colors. Lifelong health problems from a traffic accident when she was a teenager.

Began at the end of US mexican war in 1848 when the current us-mexico boarder took form. Yo soy joaquin is a poem symbolizing the Chicano Movement.

US-mexico war that resulted in mexico succeeding new mexico and california.

an organization who has the aim of finding the stolen babies, whose mothers were killed, during the "Dirty War".

fought in 1982 between argentina and the UK over the soverignty of the islands. Ended 74 days later with argentina surrendering. Loss prompted larger protets against ruling military government headed by Leopoldo Galtier

Group of argentine mothers whose children disappeared during the Dirty War. Started marches on April 30, 1977. They have identified 256 missing children who were adopted

Led a struggle in 1960's-1970's to retore New Mexican land grants to their Spanish Colonial and Mexican owners. Major figure of the Chicano movement