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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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






2. 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






3. In 1930 Trujillo assumed absolute powers of their homeland. He ruled for thirty years as if the country were his personal fiefdom. The tyrant imposed a reign of terror in the Dominican Republic - while its overseas agents carried out their plans to t






4. 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






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






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






7. 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


8. Spain's signature popular dishes






9. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?






10. 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






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






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






13. 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






14. 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






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






16. the illiterate indigenous noble. In the south - continued the struggle for Land and Freedom << >> - << convinced that it is better to die standing than live on your knees >> - slogan adopted by the Republicans after the Civil War in Spain.






17. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






19. 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.






20. 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.






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






22. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...






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






24. 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






25. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...






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






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






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






29. This is the acutal leader of Cuba


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






31. America is not only...






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






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






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






35. 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






36. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






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






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






40. 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






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






42. ...






43. 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






44. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..






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






46. Bogota






47. From colonial times - Mexico has been the leading producer of ...






48. Diego Rivera - Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros are famous ...






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






50. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...