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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






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






3. 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






4. 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






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






6. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






8. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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9. 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






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






11. 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






12. 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.






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






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






16. 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






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






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






19. This noble spirit is the greatest hero of Cubans of all political stripes.






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






21. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






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






25. 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.






26. ...






27. 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






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






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






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






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






32. 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






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






34. ...






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






36. 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






37. 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.






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






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






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






41. 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






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






43. America is not only...






44. Latin America is not a...






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






46. 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






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






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






49. Spain's signature popular dishes






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