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Vocabulario para Los Movimentos Populares y Desafíos Polícos en AL

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Definition

acaudillar

lead

v. to conduct or give direction to; guide.

to command or direct.

adinerado

moneyed

adj. possessing much money; wealthy; rich.

characteristic of or arising from wealth.

agrupación

association

n. a group of people joined together for a common purpose or by a mutual interest.

agrupar

group

v. to bring together into a group.

to select and arrange by classes or categories.

brecha económica

economic cleavage

n. economy’s tendency to split along different social classes.

economic gap between social classes.

coaccionar

coerce

v. to force to comply by means of intimidation, threats, or the like.

to compel or bring about by intimidation or force.

contra-hegemónico

contra-hegemonic

adj. against the predominance of one country over others by virtue of leadership or influence.

coyuntura

situation

n. state of affairs; circumstances.

desigualdad

inequality

n. the condition of being unequal, esp. in natural endowments or social or economic status.

disidente

dissident

n. disagreeing with, dissenting from, or opposing (the opinions or doctrines of others or the authority of some group or institution).

dispersión

dispersal

n. the act of dispersing or condition of being dispersed; dispersion.

disperso

dispersed

adj. driven away in all directions; scattered.

epitafio

epitaph

n. on a gravestone or tomb, an inscription commemorating the dead person.

hoguera

stake

n. formerly, a large post to which someone sentenced to death by burning was bound.

igualdad

equality

n. the condition, fact, or defined state of being equal.

izquierda

Left

n. (cap.) a political grouping of those who hold liberal, socialist, or progressive views (usu. prec. by the). (Cf. right.)

izquierdista

leftist

n. a member or supporter of the political Left.

adj. belonging to or sharing the views of the political Left.

opulencia

opulence

n. wealth; abundance.

periodización

periodization

n. the dividing of history into chronological periods.

PIB, Producto Interno Bruto

GDP, Gross Domestic Product

n. the total value of all final goods and services produced in a particular economy.

prominente

prominent

adj. widely recognized; eminent.

rescoldo

remnant

n. a remaining trace of something; vestige.

riqueza

wealth

n. a large quantity of money or property or the state of having such; affluence.

sindicalismo

syndicalism

n. a radical political movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries supporting labor union control of all industry and the dissolving of governmental authority.