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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. America is not only...






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






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






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






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






6. 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.






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






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






9. 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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10. 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






11. 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.






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






13. 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






14. 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






15. 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






16. Latin America is not a...






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






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






19. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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. 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






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






30. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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31. Cuba is in the ______ sea






32. 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






33. 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






34. 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






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






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






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






38. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






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






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






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






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






45. 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.






46. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






48. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






49. 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 ..






50. Today - Puerto Rico is ...