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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






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






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






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






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






6. 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






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






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






9. 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






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






11. 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






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






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






14. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'






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






16. 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






17. 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






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






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






20. 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.






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






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






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






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






26. 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






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






28. Cuba is in the ______ sea






29. Latin America is not a...






30. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






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






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






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






34. America is not only...






35. 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






36. 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






37. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






38. 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






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






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






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






42. 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






43. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...






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






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






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






47. 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






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






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






50. Since 1949 ______ has no army.