Chapter Objectives

After reading and studying this chapter you should be able to:

1. Understand that Latin America contains a mixture of peripheral and semi-peripheral countries.

2. Outline the numerous contrasts within this region.

3. Explain how potential cooperation on trade is hampered by boundary disputes.

4. Know the three principal native civilizations that developed in favored environments before European settlement began.

5. Explain the impacts of Spanish and Portuguese colonization.

6. List the various primary products that Latin America has exported from colonial times to the 1990s.

7. Trace postcolonial changes, modernization, and continued dependency in Latin America.

8. Describe the wide range of climates and landforms.

9. Outline the natural resources that this region has in abundance.

10. Examine the character and status of the Amazon rain forest.

11. Describe the different regions of Mexico.

12. Define the maquiladora program.

13. Differentiate the seven countries of Central America from Mexico.

14. Discuss the role of the United States in the politics and economics of the West Indies.

15. Compare and contrast the characteristics of Cuba and Puerto Rico.

16. Analyze the impacts of cocaine production and drug trade in the Northern Andes countries.

17. Identify the changes that occurred in Bolivia after the revolution of 1951.

18. Outline Brazil's many advantages and problems.

19. Compare and contrast the characteristics of Argentina and Chile.

20. Understand that Latin America has considerable future potential if several concerns like large debts and disparity between rich and poor can be overcome.

21. Document the consequences for urban areas of massive rural to urban migration.

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