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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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






2. Cuba is in the ______ sea






3. ...






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






5. 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






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






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






8. 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






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






10. 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.






11. 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






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






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






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






15. before election fraud and government waste - the opposition candidate launched the famous Plan de San Luis Potosi; policy proposal considered a call to rebellion that began the Mexican Revolution. He was proclaimed provisional president in 1911.






16. 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






17. 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






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






19. 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.






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






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






22. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






24. 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






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






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






27. 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






28. 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.






29. 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






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






31. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






33. 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.






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






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






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






37. ...






38. Latin America is not a...






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






40. 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






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






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






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






44. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






45. 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






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






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






48. 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






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






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