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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






2. 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






3. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






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






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






6. Diego Rivera - Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros are famous ...






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






8. America is not only...






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






10. 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.






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






12. before election fraud and government waste - the opposition candidate launched the famous Plan de San Luis Potosi; policy proposal considered a call to rebellion that began the Mexican Revolution. He was proclaimed provisional president in 1911.






13. _____ is not a part of Latin America






14. 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






15. 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.






16. 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






17. This novel of 1967 helped this Colombian mocho win the Nobel Prize for Literature.






18. At the next election the revolutionary triumph Jacobo Arbenz - who took office in 1951. The following year - his government passed the Agrarian Reform Law - which benefited hundreds of thousands of families.






19. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






21. ...






22. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






24. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.






25. Latin America is not a...






26. Bogota






27. 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






28. 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






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






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






31. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






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






34. 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






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






36. 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.






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






38. ...






39. 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






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






41. 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.






42. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






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






45. 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






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






47. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






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






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






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