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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






2. 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






3. 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






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






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






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






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






8. 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






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






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






11. ...






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






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






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






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






16. 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.






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






18. 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.






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






20. 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






21. 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.






22. 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






23. Cuba is in the ______ sea






24. 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.






25. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






27. 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






28. 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.






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






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






31. 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






32. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






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






34. 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






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






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






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






38. 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






39. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






40. 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






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






42. 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






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






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






45. 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.






46. 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






47. 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






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






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






50. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...