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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....






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






3. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






5. 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






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






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






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






9. 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






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






11. ...






12. 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






13. 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






14. 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.






15. 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






16. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






17. 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






18. 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






19. 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.






20. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






26. _____ is not a part of Latin America






27. 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 ..






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






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






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






32. 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






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






34. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






35. 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.






36. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. Cuba is in the ______ sea






48. ...






49. 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






50. 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