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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






2. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






3. America is not only...






4. 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






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






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






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






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






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






10. 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






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






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






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






14. 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






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






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






17. 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 ..






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






19. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






20. 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






21. 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






22. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.






23. 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.






24. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






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






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






28. Latin America is not a...






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






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






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






32. 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.






33. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






35. 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






36. 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






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






38. 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






39. 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






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






41. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'






42. 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






43. ...






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






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






46. 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






47. 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






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






49. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






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