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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. 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






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






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






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






6. 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






7. 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






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






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






10. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






11. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






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






13. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...






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






15. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






16. 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






17. Spain's signature popular dishes






18. America is not only...






19. 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






20. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






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






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






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. 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






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






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






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






29. 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






30. 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 ..






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






32. 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.






33. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






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






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






37. 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.






38. 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






39. 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






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






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






42. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






44. 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.






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






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






47. ...






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






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






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