AP Comp Gov Unit 6 Vocab

Bracero Program

World War II program that allowed millions of Mexicans to work temporarily in the United States

Caciques

Local military strongmen who generally controlled local politics in Mexico during the nineteenth century

Camarillas

Vast informal networks of personal loyalty that operate as powerful political cliques

Cartel

a group of producers that, individually are unable to dominate a market, but in collaboration with one another can; can control prices by limiting supplies (OPEC)

Caudillos

National military strongmen who dominated Mexican politics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Guerilla War

A conflict whereby nonstate combats who largely abide by the rules of war target the state

Ideational

Having to do with ideas. Focus on the rationale behind violence. Ideas may be institutionalized: concepts rooted in a political organization or religion

Maquiladoras

Factories that import goods or parts to manufacture good that are then exported

Mestizos

Mexicans of mixed European and indigenous blood, who make up the vast majority of the population

Nihilism

A belief that all institutions and values are essentially meaningless and the only redeeming value is violence

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

An agreement between Canada, Mexico, and the United States that liberalizes trade between the two countries

Partido Accion Nacional (PAN)

Conservative Catholic Mexican political party that until 2000 was the main opposition to the PRI

Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI)

Political party that emerged from the Mexican Revolution to preside over an authoritarian regime that lasted until 2000

PEMEX

Mexico’s powerful state-owned oil monopoly

Relative Deprivation Model

Model that predicts revolution when public expectations outpace the rate of domestic change

Revolution

Public seizure of the state in order to overturn the existing government and regime

Terrorism

The use of violence by nonstate actors against civilians in order to achieve a political goal

Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN)

Largely Mayan rebel group that staged an uprising in 1994, demanding political reform and greater rights for Mexico’s indigenous population