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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...






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






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






4. Bogota






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






6. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






7. ...






8. 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






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






10. 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






11. 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.






12. 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






13. 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






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






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






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






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






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






19. During the presidency of Gustavo Dias Ordaz - in the Plaza of the Three Cultures - in Tlateloco - police and political shock guard attacked a group of ..






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






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






22. 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






23. 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






24. 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






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






26. Latin America is not a...






27. 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.






28. 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






29. 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






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






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






32. 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






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






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






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






36. 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






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






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






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






40. ...






41. 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






42. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






44. 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






45. 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






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






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






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






50. _____ is not a part of Latin America