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1. He was the President of Chile from 1970 to 1973.

2. He was the Emperor of Brazil from 1831 to 1889.

3. His early attempt at rebellion against the Spanish crown ended in defeat at Rancagua in 1813, after which he went into exile in Argentina.

4. He took part in the liberation of Peru before moving to Europe in 1824.

5. He won the Battle of San Lorenzo in 1813. Later, his crossing of the Andes resulted in victories at the Battles of Chacabuco and Maipu in Chile.

6. This man, a leader of Chilean independence, was the illegitimate son of an Irish-Spanish officer and a Chilean mother.

7. In 1831, he abdicated in favor of his son in order to launch an ill-fated invasion of Portugal.

8. He authored the Cartagena Manifesto and Decree of War to the Death in his quest to liberate Colombia and Venezuela, during which he won the Battle of Carabobo.

9. His original party was the Fifth Republic Movement. He was imprisoned after a failed coup attempt in 1992.

10. He was the Emperor of Brazil from 1822 to 1831.

11. He was the dictator of Chile from 1973 to 1990.

12. His brutal regime was investigated in the Rettig and Valech reports, and he died awaiting trial in 2006.

13. He was the president of Argentina from 1946 to 1955 and 1973 to 1974.

14. Stroessner ruled He with an iron fist, and was backed by the CIA for his anti-communist purges.

15. He was the President of Venezuela from 1999 to 2013.

16. The son of King John VI of Portugal, he became the first ruler of the Empire of Brazil when he declared independence from Portugal in 1822 with the Cry of Ipiranga.

17. His economic policies were informed by the Chicago Boys, Chilean economists who had studied under Milton Friedman at the University of Chicago, and mostly relied on privatizing the economy.

18. He became widely admired after his 1945 marriage to actress Eva Duarte, who was immortalized in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Evita.

19. He came to power by overthrowing Federico Chávez in 1954 and assuming leadership of his Colorado Party.

20. He was the first Marxist head of state to be democratically elected in Latin America.

21. Upon his death in 1974, he was succeeded as President by his third wife, Isabel. He used Venezuela's large oil revenues to lead his Bolivarian Revolution and enact socialist policies.

22. He was the dictator of Paraguay from 1954 to 1989.

23. He died of cancer in 2013.

24. He had survived a coup called El Tanquetazo earlier in 1973.

25. He became emperor at age 5 when his father abdicated.

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