Local strongmen in latin american nations

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is

President reagan believed the spread of communism in latin america was directly due to? a.guerrilla fighters. b.contras. c.terrorists. d.leftists.

What were the social, economic, and political characteristics of spanish and portuguese rule in latin america?