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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..






2. America is not only...






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






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






5. 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

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






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






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






9. 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






10. 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






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






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






13. Latin America is not a...






14. Spain's signature popular dishes






15. Bogota






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






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






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






19. 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.






20. 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.






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






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






23. on 1 January 1994 - the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) started the armed struggle in the southern state of Chiapas - led by Subcomandante supposedly identified as Rafael Sebastian Guillen Vicente - exprofessor Metropolitina Autonomous U






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






25. ...






26. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






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






28. 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.






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






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






31. _____ is not a part of Latin America






32. 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.






33. Laureano Vallenilla Lanz was the author of the most eloquent defense of despotism Latin America: Democratic Caesarism - translated into Italian by order of Mussolini to show a happy anticipation of the fascist system.






34. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.






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






36. 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






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






38. 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






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






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






41. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






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






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






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






46. 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






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






48. 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.






49. 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






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