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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






2. 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.






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






4. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






6. 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






7. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






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






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






11. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






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






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






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. 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






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






18. 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.






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






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






21. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






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






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






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






26. 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.






27. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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28. 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






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






30. 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






31. ...






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






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






34. Bogota






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






36. In his speech to poetry - Bello recommends return to nature and leave the civilized Europe << >> - << light region misery i>. The Venezuelan humanist sentiments expressed in a neoclassical romantic full of clues.






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






38. 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






39. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.






40. 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






41. 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 ..






42. 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






43. 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.






44. 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






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






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. 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






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






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






50. 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