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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. 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
Timber
Caribbean
Porfirio Diaz
manufacturing
2. 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
Carlota
the U.S.
Morazan
Athens of South America
3. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..
Ruben Dario
continent
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Indians
4. 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
Jose Marti
Balun Canan
Santa Anna
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
5. Laureano Vallenilla Lanz was the author of the most eloquent defense of despotism Latin America: Democratic Caesarism - translated into Italian by order of Mussolini to show a happy anticipation of the fascist system.
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Porfirio Diaz
democratic Caesarism
Carlota
6. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Francisco Madero
Emiliano Zapata
7. This Central American country is known derisively as the 'banana republic'
Tlatelolco
Honduras
illiterate (cant read or write)
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
8. Cuba is in the ______ sea
Caribbean
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Jacobo Arbenz
Lazaro Cardenas
9. Since 1949 ______ has no army.
Carlota
Costa Rica
Platt Amendment
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
10. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...
Poetry
silver
Antonio Conselherio
Puerto Rico
11. 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
Balun Canan
Somoza family
Gran Colombia
Tlatelolco
12. The name by which Puerto Ricans refer to themselves is ...
Costa Rica
Borinquineers
Treaty of Ancon
Manuel Antonio Noriega
13. Latin America is not a...
The President
choteo
Carlota
continent
14. In Facundo or Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento - barbarism is represented by ...
Americanism
manufacturing
Andres Bello
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
15. 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
Puerto Rico
thirty-three (33)
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
16. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...
Markos Commandante
gaucho (cowboy)
Athens of South America
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
17. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central
Ruben Dario
choteo
Caribbean
El Salvador
18. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.
Puerto Rico
Hopscotch
Panama's independence
Trujillo
19. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...
The President
Balun Canan
Hatuey
Tlatelolco
20. This patriot nicarguense rose up against the U.S. occupation forces.
Augusto Cesar Sandino
1999
El Salvador
Timber
21. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.
Poetry
Puerto Rico
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Panama's independence
22. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
Emiliano Zapata
continent
Gerardo Machado Morales
Raul Salinas de Gotari
23. 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
Francisco Morazan
1917 Constitution
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Costa Rica
24. 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 ..
Jacobo Arbenz
students
Morazan
William Walker
25. This noble spirit is the greatest hero of Cubans of all political stripes.
Carlota
Jose Marti
muralists
Somoza family
26. From colonial times - Mexico has been the leading producer of ...
silver
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Jose Marti
choteo
27. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
parella - tortilla
modernism
28. Channel control passed to the Panamanians in ...
1999
Jorge Luis Borges
silver
1917 Constitution
29. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
Jose Santos Zelaya
Manuel Antonio Noriega
choteo
parella - tortilla
30. This modernist Nicaraguan considered the most important poet in Castilian from the Golden Age
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Porfirio Diaz
Trujillo
Ruben Dario
31. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
Puerto Rico
Shoe
Americanism
Manuel Antonio Noriega
32. The poems - stories and essays in this Argentine sequidores have had many in recent decades
Trujillo
Jorge Luis Borges
Morazan
Jose Marti
33. America is not only...
Gerardo Machado Morales
the U.S.
Jacobo Arbenz
manufacturing
34. 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
Ruben Dario
Costa Rica
Jose Marti
Puerto Rico
35. 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
muralists
El Salvador
Shoe
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
36. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'
church
continent
Francisco Madero
the bogotazo
37. 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.
Gran Colombia
Jose Santos Zelaya
Benito Juarez
an independent country
38. 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
Borinquineers
Markos Commandante
The President
El Salvador
39. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....
manufacturing
parella - tortilla
Gerardo Machado Morales
Jacobo Arbenz
40. 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.
choteo
Andres Bello
Morazan
Jacobo Arbenz
41. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS
Jose Marti
the guachafita
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Gran Colombia
42. 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
Oscar Arias Sanchez
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Lazaro Cardenas
Treaty of Ancon
43. This is the acutal leader of Cuba
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44. 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
Oscar Arias Sanchez
the guachafita
Shoe
45. 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
Ruben Dario
Gerardo Machado Morales
the bogotazo
Jose Marti
46. 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.
The Mexican Revolution
choteo
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Somoza family
47. 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
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Gran Colombia
muralists
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
48. Diego Rivera - Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros are famous ...
Trujillo
democratic Caesarism
Ruben Dario
muralists
49. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.
the guachafita
Andres Bello
Ruben Dario
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
50. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Jorge Luis Borges
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Francisco Morazan