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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






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






3. 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.






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






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






6. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






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






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






10. 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






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






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






13. 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.






14. 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






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






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






17. Constitution noted the historic legal standards of the Revolution. The most important articles state that (a) is prohibited from the Church acquires - owns or manages real estate - (b) soil and subsoil belong to the State - (c) is right to organize l






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






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






20. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?






21. 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.






22. 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






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






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






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






26. 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.






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






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






29. Bogota






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






31. Latin America is not a...






32. _____ is not a part of Latin America






33. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






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






35. 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






36. 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






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






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. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...






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






41. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






43. 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






44. 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 ..






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






46. America is not only...






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






49. ...






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