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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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2. 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.






3. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






4. 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.






5. 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






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






7. 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.






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






9. 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






10. 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






11. 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.






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






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






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






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






16. 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






17. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






20. 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.






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






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






23. 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 ..






24. 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






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






26. 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






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






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






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






30. 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






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






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






33. 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






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






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






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






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






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






39. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






40. ...






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






42. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






43. 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






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






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






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






47. Bogota






48. 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






49. 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






50. 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.