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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






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






3. 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.






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






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






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






7. 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






8. 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.






9. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






10. Latin America is not a...






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






12. 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






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






14. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






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






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






18. 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






19. 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






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






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






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






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






25. 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






26. This Costa Rican received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his Central American peace plan.






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






28. Bogota






29. 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






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






31. 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






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






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






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






35. 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






36. 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






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






38. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






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






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






41. 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.






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






43. 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.






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






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. 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.






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






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






49. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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