Kaarten: Terms Latin America | Quizlet

Brasília

Capital of Brazil is...

Real

The currency of Brazil is the ...

Jair Bolsonaro

He was the somewhat controversial previous president of Brazil from 2019 to 2022.

Gilberto Gil

This famous Brazilian singer was minister of Culture of its country from 2003 to 2008.

Embraer

What is the name of the airplane brand of Brazil?

Oscar Niemeyer

This Brazilian architect (1907-2012), is famous for his modern buildings in the new capital of Brazil.

Dilma Rousseff

One of the two (centre) left presidents between 2003 and 2016. Both were facing allegations of corruption related to Petrobras, the state-owned oil company of Brazil. (it is not Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva).

Mercosur

Brazil was one of the 4 founders of ... (other countries are Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay) in 1991, an important customs union in Latin America.

Ayrton Senna

He was F1 world champion in 1988, 1990 and 1991. He was killed in a car crash in 1994.

Michel Doukeris

The current CEO of Inbev, the Belgian world's largest beer brewery, is Brazilian.

Despachante

In Brazil it is common to use a ..., a word which roughly translates as "expediter". He/she helps to navigate the maze of Brazilian bureaucracy and facilitate business contacts.

Managua

Capital of Nicaragua is...

Balboa

The currency of Panama is the...

Óscar Romero

He was canonized on October 14th, 2018.

Mexico City

Capital of Mexico is...

Diego Rivera

Frida Kahlo was the wife of...

Carlos Slim

Forbes listed this man (& his family) the 13th richest man in the world in 2022. He is also the richest Latino.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador

He is also known as AMLO.

Alfonso Cuarón

The movie, "Roma", got 10 nominations for an Oscar in 2019. It won 3, amongst which for "best foreign language film". It was one of the first top box-office movies that was distributed by Netflix. Its director is ...

Joaquín Guzmán

He is better known as 'el Chapo', a Mexican drug lord who has repeatedly broken out of prison. He was recaptured in January 2016 and later extradited to the United States to stand trial on federal charges where he was found guilty of all charges against him. He faces a lifelong sentence in the US.

Mariachi

A Mexican style of music and musical group performance that dates back to at least the 18th century, evolving over time in the countryside of various regions of western Mexico. It has a distinctive instrumentation, musical genre, performance and singing styles, and clothing.

Popocatépetl

Name of an active volcano near Mexico City (5426 m). The last eruption was on March 19th 2019.

Hernán Cortés

The conquistador who headed the expedition that resulted in the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521.

Chapultepec

One of the largest city parks in the Western Hemisphere, measuring in total just over 686 hectares. It hosts a.o. the museum of Anthropology. It was also the location of the official residence of emperor Maximilian I and his Belgian wife, Carlota. From 1882 till 1932 it was the official residence of the president.

Quito

Capital of Ecuador is...

Salma Hayek

Mexican Actress (born in 1966), known for her role as Frida Kahlo in the movie "Frida", 2002.

US dollar

The currency of Ecuador since 2000 is the...

Charles Darwin

Ecuador is associated with a famous scientist who wrote "the origin of species".

Bogotá

Capital of Colombia is...

Peso

The currency of Colombia is the...

Juan Manuel Santos

He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016.

Juan Valdez

Who is the personification of Colombia Coffee? In a 2005 Advertising Week poll, consumers voted the Colombian character the most popular advertising icon in the U.S. outpolling Gecko and McDonalds.

Lucho Herrera

First Latin American cyclist who won a grand tour in 1987. He is also known as the "jardinerito" (little gardener).

Shakira

This Colombian artist is from Lebanese descendance. Her first name is Arabic and stands for "grateful". In January 2018, she won her third Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album, making her the only female Latin artist to do so. The sales for that album reached 4,000,000 copies worldwide.

Buenos Aires

Capital of Argentina is...

Malvinas

The Falkland Islands are known in Argentina as the ...

Astor Piazzolla

Famous Argentinean composer, known a.o. for "Adios Nonino", "Libertango" and "Invierno y Verano Porteño".

Evita Perón

She was first lady of her country from 1946 till 1952 and her popularity rose to mythical status. She received the tile of "Spiritual Leader of the Nation".

Jorge Mario Bergoglio

Catholics (and others) know him as pope Francis I. what is his real name?

Diego Armando Maradona

Thanks to God (mano de dios) he made the winning goal in the party of his country against England in the football World Cup of 1986.

Santiago

Capital of Chile is...

Atacama

A desert in the north of Chile.

Augusto Pinochet

Salvador Allende was overthrown by the dictatorship of ...

Pablo Neruda

He wrote Canto General, which was set to music by the late Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis. He received the Nobel prize for literature in 1950.

Port-au-Prince

Capital of Haiti is ...

Buena Vista Social

The ... club was a music ensemble that released the album with the same name in 1997. The album received a Grammy award in 1998 and sold more than one million copies.

Mario Vargas Llosa

This Nobel Prize Winner wrote the book "La Fiesta del Chivo" (The Feast of the Goat) in 2001 about the assassination of the Dominican dictator Trujillo.

Lima

Capital of Peru is...

Sol

The currency of Peru is the...

Sendero Luminoso

The Spanish name of the Maoist guerrilla group who terrorised Peru in the eighties.

Gabriel Boric

The current president of Chile since 2022.

Escondida

The 20 largest copper mines in the world have a capacity of 8,8 million tons per year. 7 of the 20 mines are Chilean and represent 41% of the top 20 capacity. What is the name of the largest mine?

Guaraní

Paraguay is the only country that has an indigenous language as one of its official languages. What is the name of this language?

M-19

The current president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, became member of this guerrilla group at the age of 17.

Tupamaros

The iconic and charismatic ex-president of Uruguay, José Mujica, has once been member of a guerrilla group whose name was also used by a famous US rapper.

Calle 13

This Puerto Rican hip-hop duo wrote a great (in my opinion) song about Latin America. The song touches on many underlying historical, social, and political themes present throughout Latin America. With this song the group won the title of Song of the Year in the Latin Grammy Awards of 2011

Pablo Escobar

The popular Netflix series, Narcos, tells the story of this drug lord.

Javier Milei

This controversial right wing president (he calls himself anarchy-capitalist) used a chainsaw as a symbol in his election campaign.

Simón Bolívar

He is known as "El Libertador", for leading Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Panama, towards independence from Spain.

Carlos Santana

Born and raised in Mexico where he developed his musical background, he rose to fame in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States with his group, which pioneered a fusion of rock and roll and Latin American jazz. In 2023, Rolling Stone named him the 11th greatest guitarist of all time. He has won 10 Grammy Awards and three Latin Grammy Awards, and was inducted along with his namesake band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.

George Washington Goethals

This American army engineer with Belgian roots was the builder of the Panama Canal.

Odebrecht

This Brazilian construction company played a pivotal role in major corruption scandals in Mexico, Brazil (obviously), Peru, Ecuador and others.

Tegucigalpa

Capital of Honduras

Carlota

What is the Spanish name of the Belgian Princess who was empress of Mexico from 1864 till 1867?

Totó la Momposina

(born 1 August 1940), she is a Colombian singer of Afro-Colombian and Indigenous descent.[1] She reached international attention with the release of her 1993 album La Candela Viva on Peter Gabriel's Real World Records label.