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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. attempts were made to end the chaos by a Conservative government - inspired by Generalissimo Franco's Falange. That government failed and was deposed by General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. To maintain his dictatorship with the consent of the United States






2. most significantly the turbulent period was the abolition of slavery - proclaimed earlier than most of the Americas. In these circumstances - Spain tried to reconquer the country - but the Mexican forces led by General Spanish imperialists foiled the






3. took office in 1857 - proud of his Zapotec Indian blood. Juarez promulgated the reform laws that established the suppression of the religious orders - the confiscation of church property and the obligation to register the birth - marriage and death.






4. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...






5. On the contrary - the crisis during the economic downturn accelerated the impoverishment and encouraged corruption. Hurricanes - which at that time were more intense and more destructive than usual - the situation worsened. In these circumstances - i






6. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






7. The Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'






8. 'Effective suffrage - no reelection' was the ironic slogan ...






9. Somoza dynasty was fought by guerrilla followers of the ideology of Sandino. The oppression and corruption of the Somoza popular recrimination. Finally the different sectors - forgetting ideological differences - came together and defeated the Somoza






10. This novel of 1967 helped this Colombian mocho win the Nobel Prize for Literature.






11. under President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz - happened a sad afternoon for Mexican university. In the Plaza of the Three Cultures in Tlatelolco - students marched in support of university autonomy and the rights of students were attacked at political and poli






12. _____ is not a part of Latin America






13. Although geographically belongs to Central Panama - not always associated this country with the region politically - perhaps because for centuries has been linked to South America. Since Colombia became independent from Spain in 1821 - Panama was a

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14. Latin America is not a...






15. Walker dreamed establish a slave empire in Central America which had himself elected president of Nicaragua in 1856. Seeing the danger - the other Central American governments fought the famous filibuster to defeat him and shoot him in 1860.






16. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.






17. This Central American country is known derisively as the 'banana republic'






18. The poems - stories and essays in this Argentine sequidores have had many in recent decades






19. was a general role in the struggle against Maximilian. He was a conservative vain - accustomed to using rice powder to whiten the face. She is quoted as saying: << Poor Mexico - so far from God and so close to the United States >>. His autocratic rul






20. The person most responsible for many of the arbitrary government of Maximilian was ...






21. Bogota






22. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?






23. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..






24. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.






25. the U.S. occupation army remained in Cuba until 1902. In accordance with the Platt Amendment to the Cuban government is obliged not to conclude international treaties without U.S. consent - to authorize the establishment of naval bases in the United






26. on 1 January 1994 - the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) started the armed struggle in the southern state of Chiapas - led by Subcomandante supposedly identified as Rafael Sebastian Guillen Vicente - exprofessor Metropolitina Autonomous U






27. of 1909-1933 Nicaragua suffered heavily U.S. intervention - guided by the dollar diplomacy. United States first imposed its customs control and then occupied the country with Marine detachments. The occupation was unopposed until 1927 - when the gene






28. Bolivar's dream was to unify Latin America in a large political entity. So in 1819 established in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolivar) the Republic of Colombia - comprised of the territories that today belong to Venezuela - Colombia - Panama and Ecuador. T






29. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.






30. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS






31. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'






32. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






33. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.






34. The brother of a president has been accused of being the mastermind in murder and having received bribes of millions of dollars from drug traffickers.






35. The atmosphere of terror of the dictatorship of Estrada Cabrera was captured by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Miguel Angel Asturias's novel ...






36. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central






37. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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38. liberalism division was due to the disappointment of those who opposed the recent policy of the regime ministers millionaires. In 1948 - while celebrating the Pan American Conference - Jorge Gaitan - leader of the leftist branch of liberalism - was k






39. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.






40. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...






41. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..






42. This Costa Rican received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his Central American peace plan.






43. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....






44. The name by which Puerto Ricans refer to themselves is ...






45. During the presidency of Gustavo Dias Ordaz - in the Plaza of the Three Cultures - in Tlateloco - police and political shock guard attacked a group of ..






46. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.






47. Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the U.S. Under the terms of ...






48. In his 'Address to the poetry' - this master of Simon Bolivar was one of the first to make explicit clearly longing for intellectual independence.






49. At the next election the revolutionary triumph Jacobo Arbenz - who took office in 1951. The following year - his government passed the Agrarian Reform Law - which benefited hundreds of thousands of families.






50. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'