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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the U.S. Under the terms of ...






2. 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






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






4. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






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






7. 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






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






9. In Facundo or Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento - barbarism is represented by ...






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






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






12. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






13. 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






14. 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.






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






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. 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






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






19. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






20. 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






21. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






23. 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






24. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






25. 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






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






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






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






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






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






31. 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






32. This modernist Nicaraguan considered the most important poet in Castilian from the Golden Age






33. 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






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






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






36. ...






37. Bogota






38. America is not only...






39. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






41. 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.






42. ...






43. 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






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






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






46. 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






47. 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






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






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






50. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...