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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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.






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






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






4. Bogota






5. 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






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






7. 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.






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






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






10. 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






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






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






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






14. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






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






16. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






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






19. America is not only...






20. 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






21. 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






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






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






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






25. 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






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






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






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






30. 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






31. 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






32. 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






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






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






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






36. 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






37. 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






38. 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






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






40. 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 ..






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






42. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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