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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.






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






3. 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






4. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






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






7. had three stages of the Mexican Revolution: the wartime period (1910-1920) - the organizing stage (1920-1940) and the conservative stage (1940-2000). It was an armed struggle that started in 1910 - with an uprising led by Francisco Madero against for






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






9. The main source of income for Puerto Rico now is ...






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






11. 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






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






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






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






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






16. 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






17. 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.






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






19. 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






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






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






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






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






24. Spain's signature popular dishes






25. 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.






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






27. Latin America is not a...






28. 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.






29. 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






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






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






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






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






36. ...






37. 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.






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






39. 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






40. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






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






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






44. Bogota






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






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






47. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






49. 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






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