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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS
The Mexican Revolution
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
One Hundred Years of Solitude
2. The poems - stories and essays in this Argentine sequidores have had many in recent decades
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
El Salvador
Benito Juarez
Jorge Luis Borges
3. 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
Augusto Sandino
William Walker
Andres Bello
continent
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
The President
Somoza family
Markos Commandante
Jose Marti
5. 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
Tlatelolco
Poetry
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Treaty of Ancon
6. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
realistic
Panama's independence
Hatuey
7. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
a commonwealth
choteo
Platt Amendment
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
8. 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
Santa Anna
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Athens of South America
Porfirio Diaz
9. Diego Rivera - Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros are famous ...
Jacobo Arbenz
muralists
Lazaro Cardenas
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
10. 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
Morazan
Puerto Rico
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
11. 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
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Gran Colombia
Benito Juarez
Morazan
12. Channel control passed to the Panamanians in ...
Andres Bello
Hatuey
1999
Columbia
13. This novel of 1967 helped this Colombian mocho win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Caribbean
Puerto Rico
One Hundred Years of Solitude
14. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Tlatelolco
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Poetry
15. Bogota
Athens of South America
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
thirty-three (33)
16. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..
Ruben Dario
church
Shoe
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
17. 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
Columbia
Tlatelolco
Albizu Campos
Jorge Luis Borges
18. 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.
manufacturing
Lazaro Cardenas
Shoe
Tlatelolco
19. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.
Hopscotch
Columbia
Francisco Madero
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
20. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
Lazaro Cardenas
Balun Canan
students
Jorge Luis Borges
21. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
William Walker
Timber
22. The person most responsible for many of the arbitrary government of Maximilian was ...
Mexican Revolution
Carlota
Francisco Morazan
a commonwealth
23. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
The Mexican Revolution
manufacturing
the bogotazo
Mexican Revolution
24. The atmosphere of terror of the dictatorship of Estrada Cabrera was captured by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Miguel Angel Asturias's novel ...
Platt Amendment
Manuel Antonio Noriega
The President
United Fruit Company
25. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?
William Walker
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Benito Juarez
Carlota
26. ...
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Athens of South America
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Latin American realism
27. Cuba is in the ______ sea
an independent country
Caribbean
Trujillo
muralists
28. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Honduras
Jose Santos Zelaya
Jorge Luis Borges
29. The main source of income for Puerto Rico now is ...
Francisco Madero
Timber
the bogotazo
manufacturing
30. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...
choteo
One Hundred Years of Solitude
the U.S.
Ruben Dario
31. 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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32. 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
Francisco Morazan
the bogotazo
realistic
Manuel Antonio Noriega
33. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...
Gran Colombia
United Fruit Company
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
illiterate (cant read or write)
34. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.
an independent country
Jacobo Arbenz
Puerto Rico
muralists
35. 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
Puerto Rico
Platt Amendment
Jacobo Arbenz
the guachafita
36. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'
Ruben Dario
Timber
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Hatuey
37. This is the acutal leader of Cuba
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38. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'
Markos Commandante
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Emiliano Zapata
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
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
Santa Anna
Mexican Revolution
modernism
Augusto Sandino
40. Since 1949 ______ has no army.
Morazan
Costa Rica
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
an independent country
41. This Central American country is known derisively as the 'banana republic'
Borinquineers
Hopscotch
Honduras
a commonwealth
42. 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
Antonio Conselherio
church
Hopscotch
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
43. This patriot nicarguense rose up against the U.S. occupation forces.
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Athens of South America
Morazan
students
44. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...
Honduras
Jose Santos Zelaya
Columbia
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
45. 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.
students
Porfirio Diaz
William Walker
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
46. took office in 1857 - proud of his Zapotec Indian blood. Juarez promulgated the reform laws that established the suppression of the religious orders - the confiscation of church property and the obligation to register the birth - marriage and death.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Benito Juarez
Lazaro Cardenas
Jacobo Arbenz
47. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.
Puerto Rico
Gran Colombia
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Platt Amendment
48. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
the guachafita
Hopscotch
Gran Colombia
49. 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
Lazaro Cardenas
Hopscotch
gaucho (cowboy)
Athens of South America
50. 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
Latin American realism
Andres Bello
the U.S.
Andres Bello