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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






2. 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






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






4. 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






5. 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.






6. 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






7. 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






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






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






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






11. 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






12. 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






13. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






15. ...






16. 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.






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






18. 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






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






20. 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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21. 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.






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






23. ...






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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.






30. 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






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






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






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






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






35. was a general role in the struggle against Maximilian. He was a conservative vain - accustomed to using rice powder to whiten the face. She is quoted as saying: << Poor Mexico - so far from God and so close to the United States >>. His autocratic rul






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. America is not only...






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






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






40. 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






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






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






43. 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 ..






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






45. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






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






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






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






49. 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






50. 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