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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






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






3. 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






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






5. 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.






6. 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






7. 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






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






9. 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






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






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






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






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






14. 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






15. 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






16. 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.






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






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






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






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






21. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...






22. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






24. 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.






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






26. Bogota






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






28. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






29. Latin America is not a...






30. ...






31. ...






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






33. 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.






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






35. America is not only...






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






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






38. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






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






41. 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.






42. 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






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






44. 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






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






46. 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






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






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






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






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