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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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






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






3. Spain's signature popular dishes






4. 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






5. Laureano Vallenilla Lanz was the author of the most eloquent defense of despotism Latin America: Democratic Caesarism - translated into Italian by order of Mussolini to show a happy anticipation of the fascist system.






6. 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






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






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






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






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






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






12. 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






13. 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






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






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






16. Latin America is not a...






17. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...






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






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






20. 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.






21. ...






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






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






24. 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






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






26. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






27. 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.






28. ...






29. 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






30. 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.






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






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






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






34. 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.






35. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






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






37. 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






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






39. 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






40. 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






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






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






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






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






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






46. 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.






47. 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






48. America is not only...






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






50. Bogota