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Anguilla Anguilla Democratic Party Anguilla National Alliance Anguilla secession (1967, 1969) Dog Island Gumbs, Emile Webster, Ronald
Movement Antigua Labour Party Barbuda Bird, Lester Bird, Vere Jr. Bird, Vere C. Hector, Tim Progressive Labour Movement United National Democratic Party Walter, George
Aruba Croes, Betico Eman, Henny Netherlands Antilles, oil refineries Oduber, Nelson People’s Electoral Movement
(1971-77) Family Islands, The Free National Movement Hawksbill Creek Agreement
(1955) Isaacs, Kendal
Maynard, Clement Pindling, Sir Lynden Progressive Liberal Party United Bahamian Party Vanguard Nationalist and Socialist
Party Wallace-Whitfield, Sir Cecil
Barbados Adams, Tom Barbados Labour Party Barbados Workers’ Union Barrow, Errol Blackman, Don Democratic Labour Party Forde, Henry Greaves, Philip Haynes, Richie Sandiford, Erskine Taitt, Brhnford Walcott, (Sir) Frank
Barbuda Burton, Eric Frank, Hilbourne
Belize Belize dispute Esquivel, Manuel People’s United Party Price, George United Democratic Party
Bermuda Browne-Evans, Lois National Liberal Party
Progressive Labour Party Swan, Sir John United Bermuda Party
British Virgin Islands Romney, Cyril Stoutt, Lavity United Party Virgin Islands Party Wheatley, Willard
Cayman Islands Bodden, Jim Bodden, Norman Ebanks, Benson Jefferson, Thomas Johnson, Vassel
Costa Rica Arias Sánchez, Oscar banana strike (1934) Calderon Guardia, Rafael Angel Carazo Odio, Rodrigo Caribbean Legion Civil War Communist Party COSTA RICA, Republic of Figueres Ferrer, José María
Hipólito (‘Pepe’) Generation of ’48 Monge Alvarez, Luis Alberto Mora Valverde, Manuel National Liberation Party (PLN) Oduber Quirós, Daniel Second Republic Social Christian Unity Party
(PUSC)
Cuba African involvement Batista y Zaldívar, Fulgencio Bay of Pigs invasion Castro Ruz, Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, Raúl Committees for the Defence of the
Revolution (CDRs) Communist Party CUBA, Republic of
Cuban Human Rights Party Cuban missile crisis Cuban Revolutionary War Dorticós Torrado, Osvaldo Granma Guantánamo base Guevara de la Serna, Ernesto Che gusano Havana, First Declaration of Havana, Second Declaration of Integrated Revolutionary
Organisations (ORI) JM/WAVE programme Mariel exodus Martí, José Matos, Húber microfaction Moneada assault Ochoa case Omega 7 Platt Amendment Radio Marti Rodríguez Rodríguez, Carlos
Rafael 26 July Movement (M-26-7) United Party of the Socialist
Revolution (PURS) Valladares, Ramón zafra de los 10 millones
Dominica Allfrey, Phyllis Caribs Charles, Eugenia Dominica Freedom Party Dominica Labour Party Douglas, Michael Douglas, Rosie dreads John, Patrick
Dominican Republic Balaguer, Joaquin Bosch, Juan Caamaño Deñó, Col Francisco Dominican Republic, Haitian
border massacre (1937)
Dominican Republic, Haitian canecutters
Dominican Republic, US invasion (1965)
Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD)
Guzmán, Antonio Imbert Barrera, Gen Antonio Jorge Blanco, Salvador Majluta, Jacobo Morales Troncoso, Carlos Peña Gómez, José Francisco Reid Cabral, Donald Trujillo, Generalissimo Rafael Wessin y Wessin, Gen Elias
Revolutionary Alliance) Christian Democrat Party (PDC) Cristiani, Alfredo D’Aubuisson Arrieta, Roberto Democratic Convergence Duarte, José Napoléon EL SALVADOR, Republic of FAPU Farabundo Marti National
Liberation Front (FMLN) fourteen families Marti, Augustin Farabundo Martínez, Gen Maximiliano
Hernández Matanza (1932 massacre) National Conciliation Party (PCN) National Guard Nationalist Democratic Union
(UDN) ORDEN People’s Revolutionary Army
(ERP) Popular Liberation Forces (FPL) Popular Revolutionary Bloc
(BPR) Revolutionary Democratic Front
(FDR) Romero, Archbishop Oscar
Arnulfo
Romero Mena, Gen Carlos Humberto
Salvadorean Communist Party (PCS)
tanda Ungo, Guillermo Villalobos, Joaquin
Grenada Alexis, Francis Bishop, Maurice Blaize, Herbert Brizan, George Brathwaite, Nicholas Carriacou Coard, Bernard Gairy, Sir Eric Grenada United Labour Party Grenada, US invasion (1983) Grenadines Louison, George Marry show, T. A. Marry show, Terry Maurice Bishop Patriotic
Movement Mitchell, Keith National Democratic Congress New Jewel Movement New National Party People’s Revolutionary
Government Radix, Kendrick Revolutionary Military Council
Guadeloupe Bangou, Henri de Haenen, Rémy Fleming, Albert Guadeloupe, independence
movements Jalton, Frédéric Larifla, Dominique Michaux-Chevry, Lucette Moutoussamy, Ernest Reinette, Luc Saint Barthélémy Saint Martin St Martin
Guatemala Arana Osorio, Gen. Carlos Arbenz Guzmán, Lt Col Jacobo Arévalo Bermejo, Juan José Castillo Armas, Col Carlos Cerezo Arévalo, Marco Vinicio Christian Democrat Party (DCG) civil patrols Democratic Party of National Co
operation (PDCN) fusiles y frijoles GUATEMALA, Republic of Guatemalan Labour Party (PGT) Guatemalan National
Revolutionary Unity (URNG) Guerrilla Army of the Poor (EGP) Institutional Democratic Party
(PID) Lucas García, Gen Fernando
Romeo Mejia Víctores, Gen Humberto Mutual Support Group (GAM) National Advance Party (PAN) National Campesino Pro-Land
Association National Liberation Movement
(MLN) National Opposition Front (FNO) Nationalist Authentic Central
(CAN) Organisation of the People in
Arms (ORPA) Peasant Unity Committee (CUC) Rebel Armed Forces (FAR) Revolutionary Party (PR) Rios Montt, Gen Efrain Sandoval Alarcon, Mario Ubico y Castañeda, Jorge Union of the National Centre
(UCN) Unitary Representation of the
Guatemalan Opposition (RUOG)
Haiti Abraham, Gen. Hérard Aristide, Father Jean-Bertrand Avril, Gen. Prosper
Bazin, Marc CATH Claude, Sylvio déchoukage Déjoie II, Louis de Ronceray, Hubert Duvalier, François Duvalier, Jean-Claude Duvalierism Eugène, Grégoire Fignolé, Daniel Fort Dimanche Gilles, Serge Gourgue, Gérard Haiti, Roman Catholic Church Haitian Christian Democratic
Party (PDCH) KONAKOM Manigat, Leslie Movement for the Establishment
of Democracy in Haiti (MIDH) Namphy, Gen. Henri PANPRA Pascal-Trouillot, Ertha Papaye Peasant Movement (PPM) Théodore, René Tontons Macoutes Unified Haitian Communist Party
(PUCH)
Adolfo Association for the Progress of
Honduras (APROH) Azcona Hoyo, José Simon Callejas, Rafael Leonardo Carias Andino, Tiburcio Christian Democrat Party of
Honduras (PDCH) Communist Party of Honduras
(PCH) general strike (1954) guerrilla organisations (Honduras) Honduran Patriotic Front (FPH) HONDURAS, Republic of Innovation and Unity Party
(PINU)
Liberal Party López Arellano, Gen. Oswaldo National Party Suazo Cordova, Roberto Villeda Morales, Ramón
International Alliance for Progress American Institute for Free Labor
Development (AIFLD) Arias Plan ‘black power’ ‘boat people’ border dispute (El
Salvador/Honduras) cacique Canada and the Anglo-Caribbean Caribbean Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI) Caribbean Community and
Common Market/Caricom Caribbean Conference of
Churches (CCC) Caribbean Democratic Union
(CDU) Caribs caudillo Central American Common
Market (CACM) Central American Democratic
Community (CADC) Central American Parliament Christian base community CLAT Commonwealth Caribbean CONDECA Contadora Group continuismo CPUSTAL cuartelazo death squad Declaration of St George’s (1979) Demás, William député-maire dollar diplomacy Economic Commission for Latin
America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
Family Islands ‘Football (Soccer) war’ foquismo Franco-Mexican declaration Garvey, Marcus good neighbour policy Greater Antilles Guyana Hurricane Hugo (1989) indigenismo Inter-American Defence Board
(IADB) Inter-American Development
Bank (IDB) invasions and occupations by the
United States Iran/contra affair junta Kissinger Report ladino latifundio Latin American Bishops’
Conference (CELAM) Latin American Economic System
(SELA) Latin American Energy
Organisation (OLADE) Latin American Integration
Association (LAIA) Leeward Islands Lesser Antilles Lewis, Sir Arthur liberation theology McIntyre, Alister military bases (foreign) in the
Caribbean Monroe doctrine Moyne Commission (1938) ‘new left’ noirisme Non-Aligned Movement Organisation of American States
(OAS) Organisation of Eastern
Caribbean States (OECS) ORIT personalismo populism
premier rastafarians Regional Security System (RSS) Rio group Rio treaty Rodney riots (1968) San Andrés dispute San José Agreement School of the Americas Singh, Rickey Socialist (second) International Special Service Units (SSUs) Tlatelolco Treaty University of the West Indies
(UWI) West Indies West Indies Associated States
(WISA) West Indies Federation (1958-62) Windward Islands
Union Jamaica Labour Party Manley, Michael Munroe, Trevor National Workers’ Union of
Jamaica Patterson, P. J. People’s National Party Rodney riots (1968) Seaga, Edward Shearer, Hugh Workers’ Party of Jamaica
Martinique Césaire, Aimé Crusol, Jean Darsières, Camille Lise, Claude Lordinot, Guy Louis-Joseph-Dogué, Maurice Martinican Progressive Party
(PPM) Maurice, Emile
Mexico Alemán Valdés, Miguel Authentic Party of the Mexican
Revolution (PARM) Avila Camacho, Gen Manuel braceros Calles, Gen. Plutarco Elias Cárdenas Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Lázaro Communist Party (PCM) Confederation of Mexican
Workers (CTM) Cristeros De la Madrid Hurtado, Miguel Destape Díaz Ordaz, Gustavo Durazo Moreno, Gen. Arturo Echeverría Alvarez, Luis Institutional Revolutionary Party
(PRI) Lombardo Toledano, Vicente López Mateos, Adolfo López Portillo y Pacheco, José Mexican Revolution Mexican Socialist Party (PSM) Mexican Workers’ Party (PMT) MEXICO (United Mexican
States) National Action Party (PAN) National Democratic Front (FDN) Nationalist Revolutionary Civic
Association Oil nationalisation Party of the Democratic
Revolution (PRD) Party of the Poor La Quina Ruiz Cortines, Adolfo Salinas de Gortari, Carlos Tlatelolco massacre Unified Socialist Party of Mexico
(PSUM) Velázquez, Fidel
Montserrat Bramble, Austin Fergus, Howard Irish, J. A. George
Jaipail Mission (1975) Osborne, Bertrand Osborne, John
Netherlands Antilles ABC islands Antilles of the Five Aruba Democratic Party Liberia-Peters, Maria Martina, Don National People’s Party Netherlands Antilles, oil refineries New Antilles Movement St Martin Sint Eustatius Sint Maarten Statia Wathey, Claude Workers’ Liberation Front
Nevis Daniel, Simeon Nevis Reformation Party
Nicaragua ARDE Atlantic Coast Barrios de Chamorro, Violeta Borge Martínez, Tomás Calero Portocarrero, Adolfo Chamorro Cardenal, Pedro
Joaquin contra COSEP Cruz Porras, Arturo Democratic Conservative Party
(PCD) Fonseca Amador, Carlos Independent Liberal Party (PLI) National Guard National Opposition Union
(UNO) NICARAGUA, Republic of Nicaraguan Democratic Co
ordinator (CDN) Nicaraguan Democratic Force
(FDN)
Nicaraguan Resistance (RN) Obando y Bravo, Cardinal Miguel Ortega Saavedra, Daniel Pastora Gómez, Edén Popular Social Christian Party La Prensa Robelo Callejas, Alfonso Sandino, Augusto César Sandinista National Liberation
Front (FSLN) Social Christian Party (PSC) Somoza Debayle, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Luis Somoza García, Anastasio Southern Opposition Bloc (BOS) United Nicaraguan Opposition
(UNO) Yatama
Panama Ardito Barletta, Nicolás Arias Calderón, Ricardo Arias Madrid, Arnulfo Authentic Panamefiista Party
(PPA) Christian Democrat Party
(Panama) (PDC) COLINA (National Liberation
Coalition) Delvalle, Eric Arturo Democratic Alliance of Civic
Opposition (ADOC) Dignity Battalions Endara Galimany, Guillermo flag riots Labour Party (PALA) Liberal Party (PL) Molirena National Civic Crusade (CCN) Noriega Morena, Gen. Manuel
Antonio PANAMA, Republic of Panama Canal treaties Panama Canal Zone Panama, US invasion (1989) People’s Party of Panama (PPP) rabiblancos Republican Party (PR)
Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD)
Torrijos Herrera, Gen. Omar
Puerto Rico Berrios Martínez, Rubén Corrada del Rio, Baltasar Culebra Hernández, Colón, Rafael Macheteros, Los Mari Bras, Juan Muñoz Marín, Luis National Liberation Armed
Forces (FALN) New Progressive Party (PNP) Operation Bootstrap Popular Democratic Party (PPD) Puerto Rican Independence Party
(pip) Puerto Rico, nationalist violence Romero Barceló, Carlos Vieques
St Kitts-Nevis Bradshaw, Robert Nevis Moore, Lee People’s Action Movement Powell, Michael St Christopher-Nevis St Kitts-Nevis Labour Party Simmonds, Kennedy
St Lucia Compton, John Hunte, Julian Josie, Peter Odium, George Progressive Labour Party St Lucia Labour Party United Workers’ Party
St Martin Fleming, Albert Saint Martin Sint Maarten Wathey, Claude
St Vincent and the Grenadines Beache, Vincent Bequia Cato, Milton Gonsalves, Ralph Grenadines Joshua, Ebenezer Mitchell, James Movement for National Unity Mustique New Democratic Party St Vincent Labour Party Union Island revolt (1979) United People’s Movement
Trinidad-Tobago Best, Lloyd Butler, Tubal Uriah, ‘Buzz’ Hudson-Phillips, Karl James, C. L. R. Manning, Patrick National Alliance for
Reconstruction National Joint Action Committee Panday, Basdeo People’s National Movement Robinson, A. N. R. Tapia House Group Tobago Trinidad, ‘black power’ uprising
(1970) Williams, Dr Eric
(PDM) Progressive National Party (PNP) Saunders, Norman Skippings, Oswald
US Virgin Islands Bryan, Adelbert M. de Lugo, Ron Evans, Melvin Farrelly, Alexander A. Independent Citizens’ Movement Luis, Juan St Croix
