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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. 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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2. Cuba is in the ______ sea






3. 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






4. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...






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






6. 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






7. 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






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






9. 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






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






11. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






13. 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






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






15. 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






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






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






18. 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






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






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






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






22. ...






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






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






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






26. 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.






27. 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






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






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30. 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






31. 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






32. 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.






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






34. 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






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






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






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






38. 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






39. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






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






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






43. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






45. ...






46. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






48. Latin America is not a...






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






50. America is not only...