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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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.






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






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






4. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






6. Latin America is not a...






7. 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






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






9. 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






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






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






12. Bogota






13. 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






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






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






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






17. 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






18. the U.S. occupation army remained in Cuba until 1902. In accordance with the Platt Amendment to the Cuban government is obliged not to conclude international treaties without U.S. consent - to authorize the establishment of naval bases in the United






19. 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 ..






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






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






22. 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






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






24. 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






25. 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






26. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.






27. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






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. 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.






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






32. 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






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






34. 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.






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






36. ...






37. 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.






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






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






40. 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






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






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






43. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






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






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






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






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






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






50. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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