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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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






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






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






4. 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.






5. 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


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






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






8. 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






9. 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






10. 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.






11. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






13. Latin America is not a...






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






15. 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






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






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






18. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






24. 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






25. 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.






26. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






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






29. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






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






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






32. 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






33. 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






34. 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






35. Bogota






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






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






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






39. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






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






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






42. America is not only...






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






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






45. 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






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






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






48. 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






49. 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






50. 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