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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...






2. 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.






3. ...






4. The atmosphere of terror of the dictatorship of Estrada Cabrera was captured by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Miguel Angel Asturias's novel ...






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






6. 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






7. 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






8. 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.






9. Latin America is not a...






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






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






12. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






14. 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






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






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






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






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






19. 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






20. 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






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






22. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. 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






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






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






34. America is not only...






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






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






37. 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






38. Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the U.S. Under the terms of ...






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






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






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






42. 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






43. 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






44. 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






45. 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






46. 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






47. ...






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






49. 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






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