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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






2. 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






3. 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






4. ...






5. 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 ..






6. 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.






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






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






9. 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






10. Cuba is in the ______ sea






11. 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.






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






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






14. 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.






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






16. 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






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






18. 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.






19. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






21. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






23. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






25. Bogota






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






27. ...






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






29. 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






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






31. _____ is not a part of Latin America






32. attempts were made to end the chaos by a Conservative government - inspired by Generalissimo Franco's Falange. That government failed and was deposed by General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. To maintain his dictatorship with the consent of the United States






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






34. 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






35. 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.






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






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






38. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






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






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






41. 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






42. 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






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






44. 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






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






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






48. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






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






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