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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. Spain's signature popular dishes






2. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






3. 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






4. Although geographically belongs to Central Panama - not always associated this country with the region politically - perhaps because for centuries has been linked to South America. Since Colombia became independent from Spain in 1821 - Panama was a

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5. 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.






6. America is not only...






7. 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






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






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






10. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central






11. 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






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






13. 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






14. 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.






15. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






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






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






19. 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






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






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






22. Bogota






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






24. 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






25. 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






26. 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






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






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






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






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






31. Latin America is not a...






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






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






34. 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.






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






36. 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.






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






38. 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






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






40. 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






41. 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






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






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






44. 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






45. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






46. 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.






47. 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 ..






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






49. 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






50. 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