*Kleptocracy - applies to a government "that extends the personal wealth and political power of government officials and the ruling class (collectively, kleptocrats) at the expense of the population, sometimes without even the pretense of honest service." - wiki
*coup d'état - a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics
*Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán - Guatemalan military officer and politician, president from 1951 - 1954 until he was ousted by a coup d'état in which the US replaced him with a military junta, headed by Colonel Carlos Castillo. Arbenz had attempted to end the Latifundia system.
*Latifundia system - pieces of property covering tremendous areas. Often called haciendas in Latin America. Similarities with the Roman latifundia. Blamed for economic inequality and strife.
*26th of July Movement - In 1959, Fidel Castro led a revolution to overthrow the Fulgencio Batista government in Cuba. The name originates from the failed attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953, an army facility in the city of Santiago de Cuba. The movement was reorganized in Mexico in 1955 by a group of 82 exiled revolutionaries (Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, and Che among others). Batista eventually fled Cuba in 1959.
*AWOL - absent without leave, abandonment of duty without permission from one's government
