Below, you will find help for geography, plus a nice idea of the main things you should know. For a review of the five stages
of Latin America, go here

I dedicate this, the best work I ever did in a few hours, to myself. Plus to everyone else who needs it. That would be everyone, excluding zero period, to whom I must apologize for not getting around to this sooner. Anywyay, I think we only need to know the countries that we studied in some semblance of detail, but I included them all for the fun of it. Plus Canada.

1- Canada
What's going on, eh? Nothing in Canada.

2- The United States of America
Bad boy nation of the Americas, which used its CIA to centralize the world under the intelligence of capitalism (association).

3- Mexico
Diaz caused the Mexicans to start a revolution (known as the Mexican Revolution), which lasted for many leaders. Refer to your Mexico packet, or ask MK for his. In general:

• Porfirio Díaz
• Francisco I. Madero
• Emiliano Zapata
• Victoriano Huerta
• Pancho Villa
• Venustiano Carranza
• Alvaro Obregón
• Plutarco Elías Calles
• Lázaro Cárdenas
• Constitutionalist Army
• Plan of Guadalupe
• Plan of Ayala
• Where Castro met Guevara

4- Cuba
Known for its cigars and parties since 1900 (and until 1959).

• Jose Marti
• General Valeriano Weyler
• Platt Amendment
• Guantanamo Bay
• Cuban Sugar Tariff
• Batista
• July 26th Movement
• Fidel and Raul Castro
• Landing site of the Granma
• Agrarian Reform Law
• Bay of Pigs
• Cuban Missile Crisis

• United Fruit Company
• Ubico
• Arbenz
• Operation Success
• Location where the U.S. trained revolutionary exiles

6- Belize
Sounds like feliz.

7- Honduras
Nobody cares about Honduras

8- El Salvador
The Saviator.

9- Nicaragua
Into the quicksand of Sandinistaville.

• William Walker
• Somozas
• FSLN
• Sandistas
• Contras
• Boland Amendment
• Iran-Contra Scandal

10- Costa Rica
Rich Coast.

11- Panama
Gateway to the Carribean.

• French engineering failure
• Panama Canal
• Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
• School of the Americas
• Noriega
• Lots of drugs

12- Bahamas
Forget the Bahamas.

13- Jamaica
They have a bobsled team.

14- Haiti
Has a chip out of it in the shape of a hat.

15- Dominican Republic
Republic of Dominicans. Haiti's siamese twin.

16- Puerto Rico
Rich port. Since it's so rich, it can afford a better view of the ocean.

17- Colombia
Gateway of South America and cocaine.

18- Venezuela
Looks like a Russian "V".

19- Guyana
Looks like a guy. Or not. Actually, it looks like a boxer wearing a dress.

20- Suriname
These guys speak Dutch.

21- French Guiana
French are inferior, so their Guyana is smaller. Plus, it's spelled wrong.

22- Ecuador
Equator. All the Colombian drug lords migrate south every winter to visit the equator.

23- Peru
They have llamas.

24- Brazil
Home to the Amazons and rainforests.

25- Bolivia
The kidney of South America.

• Where Che Guevara was killed.

26- Chile
May or may not be the home of chile.

• Relied first on nitrate, then copper
• FRAP
• Christian Democrat party
• Eduardo Frei
• Antonio Zamero
• Salvador Allende
• UP (Unidad Popular)
• General Rene Scheider's kidnapping
• "invisible blockade" in World Bank by US
• MRI (Movement of the Revolutionary Left)
• Pinochet
• Orlando Letelier (Chilean ambassador) killed
• "the disappeared"

27- Paraguay
Looks like a "P" if you're insane and read alot.

28- Argentina
Don't cry for me, Peterson. Not that you would anyway.

• Birthplace of Che Guevara

29- Uraguay
The kidney stone of South America.