Answer the following about military service and the persecution of homosexuality in modern Latin America, for 10 points each.
[10e] Labor camps called UMAPs (“oo-MOPS”) interned gay men in this country in lieu of obligatory conscription. This country’s 26th of July Movement, which idealized the “new man,” was named for an attack on the Moncada Barracks.
ANSWER: Cuba [or Republic of Cuba; or República de Cuba]
[10m] The GOU exploited a sex scandal over nude photos of military cadets during the 1943 coup that marked the end of this corrupt period of Argentine politics. It began with José Félix Uriburu’s (“oo-ree-BOO-roo’s”) 1930 coup.
ANSWER: Infamous Decade [or Década Infame] (The GOU was the United Officers’ Group.)
[10h] This many partygoers were conscripted into forced labor during the Caste War after their 1901 arrest at a gay dance in Mexico City. Porfirio Díaz’s son-in-law allegedly attended that ball known by this number.
ANSWER: 41 [or forty-one; or cuarenta y uno; accept Dance of the Forty-One or Ball of the Forty-One or El baile de los cuarenta y uno; accept 42 or forty-two or cuarenta y dos]
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