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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






2. The fundamental objective of Hispanic realism seemed to go against the Latin American artistic desire. By offering a slice of life - a writer is unable to show the full reality of the new world I wanted to say - because this new school had at its cor






3. 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






4. had three stages of the Mexican Revolution: the wartime period (1910-1920) - the organizing stage (1920-1940) and the conservative stage (1940-2000). It was an armed struggle that started in 1910 - with an uprising led by Francisco Madero against for






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






6. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






7. ...






8. 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 ..






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






10. 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.






11. The main source of income for Puerto Rico now is ...






12. 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






13. 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






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






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






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






17. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.






18. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'






19. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.






20. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






21. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...






22. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...






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






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






25. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..






26. 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






27. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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28. _____ is not a part of Latin America






29. One of the inmates in New York patriots - led the expedition to liberate the island. His hunch written in a letter to his mother served and died in the battlefield. He bequeathed to posterity his desire for freedom - to which he had devoted his life






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






31. Cuba is in the ______ sea






32. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






34. Channel control passed to the Panamanians in ...






35. 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






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






37. This noble spirit is the greatest hero of Cubans of all political stripes.






38. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.






39. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...






40. Buenaventura Baez - a former puppet Santana - another traitor - since the presidency conspired to grant special rights and naval bases to the United States - prior to its full annexation. President Ulysses S. Grant enthusiastically supported the anne






41. administrative integrity and dynamism he conquered much popularity. Conducted more work for the benefit of the dispossessed classes than their predecessors. Implemented the Constitution of 1917 - land was expropriated and distributed forty-five milli






42. 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






43. few years later - came Luis Munoz Marin. It began as a nationalist patriot - but eventually changed his political philosophy by replacing the concept of the Commonwealth - ie domestic autonomy without international legal personality. Mu






44. Failing all attempts to achieve intellectual independence own artistic expression - a group of poets began the revitalization of literature in Castilian. His aesthetic soon won in Latin America and influenced the writers of Spain. Then they exchanged






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






46. In his speech to poetry - Bello recommends return to nature and leave the civilized Europe << >> - << light region misery i>. The Venezuelan humanist sentiments expressed in a neoclassical romantic full of clues.






47. Intellectuals and university students - allied with some army sergeants - deposed tyrant. One of these - Fulgencio Batista - stenographer of Staff - gave the final blow to the dictatorship. Opened in period that became the absolute ruler or the emine






48. before election fraud and government waste - the opposition candidate launched the famous Plan de San Luis Potosi; policy proposal considered a call to rebellion that began the Mexican Revolution. He was proclaimed provisional president in 1911.






49. Constitution noted the historic legal standards of the Revolution. The most important articles state that (a) is prohibited from the Church acquires - owns or manages real estate - (b) soil and subsoil belong to the State - (c) is right to organize l






50. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...