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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central






2. 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






3. 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.






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






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






6. ...






7. 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






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






9. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






10. 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






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






12. 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.






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






14. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






16. 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.






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






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






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






20. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






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






23. Latin America is not a...






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






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






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






27. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. Cuba is in the ______ sea






35. 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 ..






36. 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.






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






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. 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






40. 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.






41. 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






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






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






44. 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






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






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






47. 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






48. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






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






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