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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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






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






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






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






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






6. 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






7. 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.






8. 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






9. 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.






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






11. 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






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






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






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






15. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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 patriot nicarguense rose up against the U.S. occupation forces.






18. 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






19. 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






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






21. 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






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






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






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






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






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






27. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






28. 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






29. 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






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






31. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






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






33. Spain's signature popular dishes






34. 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.






35. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






36. 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






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






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






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






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






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






42. 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






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






44. 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






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






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






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






48. America is not only...






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






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