AP CG&P Mexico

guerrilla warfare

A hit-and-run technique used in fighting a war; fighting by small bands of warriors using tactics such as sudden ambushes

ideational

emphasizing the centrality of ideas and norms in shaping behavior and interactions

nihilism

a total rejection of established laws; "nothing matters"

relative deprivation model

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

revolution

a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system.

terrorism

Acts of violence designed to promote a specific ideology or agenda by creating panic among an enemy population

bracero program

United States labor agents recruited thousands of farm and railroad workers from Mexico. The program stimulated emigration from Mexico.

caciques

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

camarillas

Vast informal networks of personal royalty that operates as powerful political cliques.

caudillos

system of military leaders that ruled throughout 1830s

cartel

a formal organization of producers that agree to coordinate prices and production

maquiladoras

The term given to zones in northern Mexico with factories supplying manufactured goods to the U.S. market. The low-wage workers in the primarily foreign-owned factories assemble imported components and/or raw materials and then export finished goods.

mestizos

A person of mixed Native American and European ancestory

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

Agreement that created a free-trade area among the United States, Canada, and Mexico. now called USMCA

Partido Accion Nacional (PAN)

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

Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI)

The 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.

Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN)

A largely Mayan rebel group that staged an uprising in 1994, demanding political reform and greater rights for Mexico's indigenous people